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of those instruments. Cicero tells us that this tibicen, with 
his flapper, qui staret occulte post ipsum, and was not seen 
by the people, does not confine his employment to appeasing 
the passion of his master; he was, upon occasion, to incite 
it: “ Qui inflaret celeriter eum sonum, quo ilium aut re- 
missum exciterat aut a contentione revocaret.” It is not 
easy, however, to conceive of what use this expedient could 
be, unless rhetorical tones were regulated by those of music. 
TONORU, an ancient city of the south of India, province 
of Mysore. Some parts of the fortification still remain. 
TONQUIN. See Tunquin. 
TONROQUINO, a small river of Guiana, which runs 
north, and enters the Paraguay. 
TONSBERG, a town of Norway, in the province of 
Aggerhuus, situated on a bay of the Baltic; 42 miles south 
of Christiania. Lat. 59. 23. N. long. 10. 12. E. 
TONSE, a river of Hindostan. It rises in the mountains 
ofBogilcund, and runuing to the east, falls into the Ganges 
below Allahabad. 
TONSELLA, in Botany, a genus of the class triandria, 
order monogynia.—Generic Character. Calyx: perianth 
one-leafed, bell-shaped, permanent, five-parted; segments 
ovate, acute. Corolla: petals five, ovate, rude, permanent, 
inserted into the receptacle, longer than the calyx. Nectary 
pitcher-shaped, quite entire, surrounding the germ. Sta¬ 
mina: filaments three, inserted into the inner wall of the 
nectary, after flowering spreading. Anthers roundish. Pis¬ 
til : germ roundish, surrounded by the nectary. Style short. 
Stigma simple. Pericarp: berry spherical, one-celled, ac¬ 
companied by the calyx and corolla. Seeds four.— Essen¬ 
tial Character. Calyx five-parted. Petals five. Nectary 
pitcher-shaped. Berry one-celled, four-seeded. 
1. Tonsella scandens, or climbing tonsella.—Leaves quite 
entire, acuminate. This is a tree with round branches, hairy 
at top, and covered with a purplish somewhat rugged bark. 
—Found in Guiana, and the island of Trinidad. 
2. Tonsella Africana, or African tonsella.—Leaves ob¬ 
tuse, glandular-toothed.—Native of Guinea. 
TO'NSIL, s. Uonsille, Fr.; tonsillce, Lat.] Tonsils or 
almonds are two round glands placed on the sides of the 
basis of the tongue. Quincy. 
• TO'NSILE, adj. [tonsilis , Lat.] That may be clipped. 
On the green, 
Broider’d with crisped knots, the tonsile yews 
Wither and fall. Mason. 
TONSURE, s. [ tonsura , Lat.] The act of clipping 
the hair; the state of being shorn.-—The vestals, after having 
received the tonsure, suffered their hair to come again, 
being here full grown, and gathered under the veil. Addison. 
—The tonsure was anciently a mark of infamy in France; 
insomuch that, when they would render any prince in¬ 
capable of succeeding to the crown, they cut off his hair 
and shaved him. 
TONTI, or Tonty, a river of Canada, which runs into 
Lake Erie, not far from the Orwell. 
TONTINE, s. [from Tonti, an Italian, who is said to 
have first formed the scheme of these life-annuities.] An¬ 
nuity on survivorship. Chambers. 
TON-TING, a large lake of China, in the province of 
Houquang, about 60 miles long and from 17 to 25 broad. 
It is connected at its southern point with the great river 
Yang-tse-kiang; and two other great streams in the pro¬ 
vince pass through it. 
TONTORAL, a cape on the coast of Chili. Lat. 27. 
27. S. 
TONVORE, a cape of Scotland, on the north-west of 
the island of Hay. Lat. 55. 51. N. long. 6. 27. W. 
TONUSCO, a river of New Granada, in the province of 
Antioquia, which runs east to enter the Cauca. 
TONY, s. A simpleton: a ludicrous word. 
A companion fit 
For all the keeping tonies of the pit. Dry den. 
TONYN’S ISLANDS, a cluster of small islands in the 
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Eastern Seas, near the south-west coast of the island of Cele~ 
bes. Lat. 5. 31. S. long. 119. E. 
TOO, adv. [to, Sax.] Over and above; overmuch; 
more than enough. It is used to augment the signification 
of an adjective or adverb to a vicious degree. 
Your father’s rough and stem, 
His will too strong to bend, too proud too learn. Cowley. 
It is sometimes doubled to increase its emphasis; but 
this reduplication always seems harsh, and is therefore 
laid aside.—Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt. 
Shakspeare. 
Likewise; also. 
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate; 
And I, for winking at your discords too. 
Have lost a brace of kinsmen. Shakspeare. 
TOOBAE, some very low islets connected by a reef in the 
North Pacific Ocean, and about five leagues north of Bola- 
bola, one of the Society islands. 
TOOBIGAN, a small island in the Sooloo Archipelago. 
Lat. 6 . 14. N. long. 120. 44. E. 
TOOBOUAI ISLAND, one of the Society islands, in the 
South Pacific ocean. Its greatest extent, in any direction, 
exclusive of the reef, is not above five or six miles. Accord¬ 
ing to the information of some men whom Captain Cook saw 
in the canoes, their island is stocked with hogs and fowls, 
and produces the several roots and fruits that are found at 
the other islands in this part of the Pacific ocean. The 
language is the same as that spoken at Otaheite. Lat. 23. 
25. S. long. 210. 37. E. 
TOOFOA, one of the Friendly islands, visible from An- 
namooka, by means of its height, and a volcano, which 
almost constantly emitted smoke, and sometimes threw up 
stones. Its shores are steep, and covered with black sand. 
The rocks are hollow, and in some places of a columnar 
form. The mountain, except in spots that appear to have 
been recently burned, is covered with verdure, shrubs and 
trees. The coast is about five leagues in circuit. 
TOOK, the preterite, and sometimes the participle passive 
of take. 
Thy soldiers 
All levied in my name, have in my name 
Took their discharge. Shakspeare. 
TOOKE (John Horne), the third son of a poulterer in 
Newport-market, was born in New port-street, Westminster, 
in June, 1736, and having spent some years at Westminster 
and Eton schools, was admitted into ^t. John’s college, 
Cambridge, in 1755, where he took the degree of B. A. 
After officiating for some time as an usher in a school at 
Blackheath, he took deacon’s orders, in compliance with the 
wishes of his father, and served as a curate in Kent. But 
the law being the object of his choice, he entered in the 
Inner Temple in 1756. Nevertheless, in 1760, he was or¬ 
dained as a priest, and inducted into the chapelry of New 
Brentford, purchased for him by his father. But as he 
entered very deeply and warmly into the political disputes 
of the period in which he lived, he ceased officiating as a 
clergyman, and took an active part in the transactions of 
that period. When Wilkes returned from his exile to France, 
and became a candidate for the representation of the 
county of Middlesex, Horne was his zealous adherent, and 
was thought to have contributed to the success of his election. 
It is said, that it was by his instigation that Mr. Beckford, 
lord mayor in 1770, made a verbal reply to his Majesty’s 
answer to a remonstrance from the city of London; and 
that he drew up that reply as inscribed on the pedestal of 
Mr. Beckford’s statue in Guildhall. He is regarded also as 
the principal founder of the “Society for supporting the 
Bill of Rights,” of which he was an active member; and 
by his exertions Bingley, a printer, who had been committed 
to prison by lord Mansfield for refusing to appear for the 
purpose of answering to interrogatories, was at length 
liberated. In the years 1770 and 1771, a quarrel took place 
between Wilkes and Horne, in the prosecution of which the 
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