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To TOLL, v. n. To pay toll or tallage.—I will buy 
me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll for him: for this, I’ll 
none of him. Shakspeare. —To take toll or tallage. 
The meale the more yeeldeth, if servant be true, 
And miller that tolleth takes none but his due. Tusscr. 
To sound as a single bell. 
The first bringer of unwelcome news 
Hath but a losing office ; and his tongue 
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell. 
Remember'd tolling a departed friend. Shakspeare. 
To TOLL, v. a. To make a bell sound with solemn 
pauses.—Our going to church at the tolling of a bell, only 
tells us the time when we ought to go to worship God. Stil¬ 
ling fleet. —To call by sound. 
They give their bodies due repose at night: 
When hollow murmurs of their evening bells 
Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells. 
Dry den. 
To notify by sound.—Slow tolls the village clock the 
drowsy hour. Beattie. —To take toll of; to collect. 
Like the bee, tolling from every flower 
The virtuous sweets. Shakspeare. 
To take away; to vacate; to annul. A term only used 
in the civil law ; in this sense the o is short, in the former 
long. —An appeal from sentence of excommunication does 
not suspend it, but then devolves it to a superior judge, and 
tolls the presumption in favour of a sentence. Ay life. — 
To take away, or perhaps to invite. See To Tole. —The 
adventitious moisture which hangeth loose in a body, betray- 
eth and tolleth forth the innate and radical moisture along 
with it. Bacon. 
TOLLAND, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 3 
miles north-north-east of Wiveliscombe. 
TOLLAND, a county of the United States, in Connecti¬ 
cut, bounded north by Massachusetts, east and south-east 
by Windham county, south-west by Middlesex county, and 
west by Hartford county. Population 13,779. 
TOLLAND, a village and township of the United States, 
and capital of Tolland county, Connecticut; 83 miles west- 
south-west of Boston. Population of the township, 1610. 
TOLLAND, a post township of the United States, in 
Hampden county, Massachusetts; 110 miles west-south-west 
of Boston. Population 798. 
TOLLAND ROYAL, a parish of England, in Wiltshire; 
111 miles south-by-east of Hindon. 
TO'LLBOOTH, s. A prison; a custom-house; an ex¬ 
change. Todd. —Those other disciples were from the fishing- 
boat ; this from the toll-booth. Bp. Hall. 
To TO'LLBOOTH, v. a. To imprison in a toll-booth. 
To these what did he give ? why a hen. 
That they might tolbooth Oxford men. Corbet. 
TO'LLDISH, s. A vessel by which the toll of corn for 
grinding is measured. 
If thou beest a true man, then quoth the miller, 
I swearo by my toll-dish , I’ll lodge thee all night. 
Old Ballad. 
TOLLENSEE, a large lake in the north of Germany, in 
the grand duchy of Mecklenburg. A river of the same name 
proceeds from this lake, passes by New Brandenburg and 
Treptow, aud flows into the Peene near Demmiu. 
TO'LLER, s. One who collects tribute or taxes ; a toll- 
gather. Obsolete. —One who tolls a bell. 
TOLLERDINE, a hamlet of Englaud, in the parish of 
Warndon, Worcestershire. 
TOLLER FRATRUM, or Little Toller, a parish of 
England, in Dorsetshire; 8 miles south-east of Beaminster. 
It has three annual fairs at Rotter Down. 
TOLLER PORCORUM, or Great Toller, another 
parish in the above county, adjoining to the foregoing. 
TOLLERTON, a hamlet of England, in Gloucestershire, 
near Minchinghampton.—2. A parish in Nottinghamshire; 4~ 
miles south-east-by-south of Nottingham.—3. A township in 
the North Riding of Yorkshire; 4 miles south-south-west of 
Easingwold. Population 481. 
TOLLESBURY, a parish of England, in Essex ; 7J miles 
east-north-east of Maldon. Population 850. 
TOLLESHUNT, Darcy, a parish of England, in Es¬ 
sex; 6 miles north-east-by-east of Maldon. Population 850. 
TOLLESHUNT, Knight’s, another parish in the above 
county; 1 mile north of the foregoing. Population 307. 
TO'LLGATHERER, s. The officer that takes toll.— 
Toll-gatherers are every day ready to search and exact a 
customary tribute. Sir T. Herbert. 
TOLLESHUNT, Major, a third parish in the same 
county; 1 mile west of the preceding. Population 350. 
TOLMEZZO, a small town of Austrian Italy, in the Ve¬ 
netian delegation of Udina, with a castle and 3000 inhabit¬ 
ants. It has considerable manufactures of linen; 25 miles 
north-north-west of Udina. 
TOLNA, a county in the south-west of Hungary, lying 
to the west of the Danube, and to the south of the county of 
Stuhl-Weissenburg. 
TOLNA, a small town of the south-west of Hungary, on 
the Danube, formerly the capital of the county or palatinate 
of Tolna; 139 miles south-east of Presburg, and 73 south 
of Buda. 
TOLO BAY, a large bay on the east coast of the island of 
Celebes, very broad at its entrance, but growing narrower 
towards the bottom. Lat. 1. 30. to 3. 5. S. long. 121. 18. 
to 123. E. 
TOLOMETA. See Ptolometa. 
TOLOSA, a town of the north of Spain, in Biscay, and 
the chief place in the district of Guipuscoa; 13 miles south- 
south-west of St. Sebastian, and 32 east-by-south of Bilbao. 
TOLOSA, Las Navas de, a great plain in the south¬ 
west of Spain, in Andalusia, province of Jaen, remarkable 
for a victory obtained by the Christians over the Moors in 
1212. 
TOLPAN, a river of Chili, which runs west, and enters 
the Vergara. 
TOLPIDDLE, a parish of England, in Dorsetshire; 8 
miles east-north-east of Dorchester. 
TO'LSEY, s. The same with tolbooth. Diet. 
TOLSK1THY, a hamlet of England, in Cornwall, ad¬ 
joining to Redruth. 
TOLSTONOSKOI, a fort of Asiatic Russia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Tobolsk, on the Yenisei; 280 miles north-north- 
west of Turuchansk. 
TOLTEN, a river of Chili, which has its rise from a lake. 
It runs north, and enters the Pacific ocean, after collecting 
the waters of several other rivers, 7 leagues west of Port 
Imperial, and forms a bay in lat. 39. 11. S. 
TOLU, a seaport town of South America, in the province 
of Carthagena, with a harbour open to the Spanish Main ; 
55 miles south of Carthagena. Lat. 9. 32. N. long. 75. 
30. W.—There is another older settlement of the same name 
in the same province. 
TOLUCA, a regularly built town of Mexico, in the inten¬ 
dancy of Mexico. Lat. 19.16. N. long. 99. 21. 30. W. 
TOLVE, a small town in the south of the kingdom of 
Naples, province of the Basilicata. Population 3000; 8 
miles north-east of Potenza, and 70 east of Salerno. 
TOLUIFERA [from tolu and fero, to bear. Balsam of 
tolu-tree], in Botany, a genus of the class decandria, order 
monogynia, natural order of terebintaceas (Juss.) —Generic 
Character. Calyx: perianth one-leafed, bell-shaped, five¬ 
toothed, almost equal, with one angle more remote. Corolla: 
petals five, inserted into the receptacle; of which four are 
equal, linear, a little longer than the calyx; the fifth twice 
as big, obcordate; claw length of the calyx. Stamina: fi¬ 
laments ten, very short. Anthers longer than the calyx. 
Pistil: germ oblong. Style none. Stigma acute. Pericarp: 
berry ? round, four-celled, four-seeded. Seed single, ovate. 
—Essential Character. Calyx five-toothed, bell-shaped. 
Petals five, the lowest twice as big, obcordate. Style none. 
Toluifera balsamum, or balsam of tolu tree.—This is a 
tree 
