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TOOLJAPOOR, a town of Hindostan, province of Au¬ 
rangabad, belonging to the Nizam. Lat. 18. 17. N. long. 
76. 27. E. 
TOOLOMBAH, a town of Hindostan, province of Moul- 
tan, belonging to the Afghans. Lat. 30. 58. N. long. 72. 
13. E. 
TOOLSYPORE, a town of Hindostan, province of Oude, 
belonging to the'Nabob. Lat. 27.29. N. long. 82. 17. E. 
TOOLUMBO, a village of Central Africa, in Bambarra, 
on the northern bank of the Niger; 50 miles south-east of 
Bambarra. 
TOOM, adj. [tom, Dan and Swed. the same.] Empty: 
still a northern word. Wicliffe, toom or tuine. —A loom 
purse makes a bleit merchant. Yorkshire Proverb. 
TOOMAVARA, a small village of Ireland, in the county 
of Tipperary, which exhibits such vestiges of ancient 
buildings as prove that it was formerly a place of some con¬ 
sequence. Here are the ruins of a preceptory, founded by 
the knights templars; 169 miles south-west of Dublin. 
TOOMBUDDRA, a celebrated river of the south of India. 
It takes its name from the junction of the Toom and Bhadra, 
which have their sources in the Western mountains. After 
the junction it continues its course to the north-east, and 
falls into the Kistna below Rachore. 
TOOMISH, a town of Ireland, in the county of Kerry; 
14 miles south of Tralee. 
TOOMOON, a town of Hindostan, province of Malwah, 
belonging to the Mahrattas. It is situated on the banks of 
the river Batmah, and contains a very ancient temple. Lat. 
25. 8. N. long. 78. 35. E. 
TOOND, a river of Ireland, which runs into the Lee; 15 
miles west of Cork. 
TOORDA, a village of Kaarta,. in Central Africa; 24 
miles north of Kemmoo. 
TOOREYPOOR, a town of the south of India, province 
of the Carnatic, and district of Trichinopoly. Lat. 11. 11. 
N. long. 78. 48. E. 
TOORMOOZ, Tirmoz, or Termed, a city of indepen¬ 
dent Tartary, situated to the north of the Oxus, near its 
junction with the Hissaur river; 50 miles north of Bulkh. 
TOOS, a small town of Korassan, in Persia; 25 miles 
south of Mesched. 
TOOSI, a town on the southern coast of Niphon, in 
Japan ; 84 miles south-south-east of Meaco. 
TOOSI, one of a cluster of small islands, situated near the 
north-west coast of Niphon, in Japan. Lat. 40. 40. N. long. 
140. 40. E. 
To TOOT, v. v. [perhaps cotan, Saxon, contracted from 
co-p;tan, to know, or examine. Dr. Johnson. —Mr. Mason 
objects to this, and gives co-Cean, to attract , as the origin ; 
supporting it by a remark, that tradesmen at Tunbridge 
Wells, meeting company on their way thither, to solicit their 
custom, were called footers. But, says Todd, it may surely 
be referred to the Saxon COCian, eminere tanquam cornu in 
fronte.] To pry; to peep; to search narrowly and slily; to 
look about. Obsolete. 
I cast to go a shooting. 
Long wand’ring up and down the land. 
With bow and bolts on either hand. 
For birds in bushes tooting Spenser. 
Alsotosound ; to make a noise. [ tuta , Su.Goth.; tuyten, 
Teut. the same ; tuyte, a horn.] That wiseacre deserves of 
all other to wear a toting horn. Howell .—To standout; 
to be prominent.—Though perhaps he had never a shirt to 
his back, yet he would have a toting huge swelling ruff 
about his neck. Howell. 
To TOOT, v. a. To look into; to see.—Then turned I 
agen, when I had all ytoted. Pierce. —To sound. 
Jockie, say what might he be 
That sits on yonder hill. 
And tooted out his notes of glee ? TV. Browne , 
TO'OTER, s. One who plays on a pipe or horn. 
Come father Rosin, with your fiddle now, 
And two tall totcrs : Flourish to the masque. B. Jonson. 
TOOTH, s. plural teeth. [tunthus , M. Goth.; toft. Sax.; 
Vox antiquissima, et plurimis linguis communis. Serenius .] 
The hardest and smoothest bones of the body, set in the 
edges of the jaws. Quincy. 
Avaunt, you curs! 
Be thy mouth or black or white. 
Tooth that poison if it bite. Shakspeare. 
Taste; palate. 
These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth; 
What, hast thou got an ulcer in thy mouth ? 
Why stand’st thou picking]? Dryden. 
A tine, prong, or blade, of any multifid instrument.—The 
priest’s servant came while the flesh was in seething, with a 
flesh hook of three teeth. Sam. —The prominent part of 
wheels, by which they catch upon correspondent parts of 
other bodies.—In clocks, though the screws and teeth be 
never so smooth, yet if they be not oiled will hardly move, 
though you clog them with never so much weight; but ap¬ 
ply a little oil, they whirl about very swiftly with the tenth 
part of the force. Bay. 
Tooth and nail. AVith one’s utmost violence ; with 
every means of attack or defence.—A lion and bear were at 
tooth and nail which should carry off a fawn. L'Estrange. 
To the Teeth. In open opposition. 
It warms the very sickness in my heart, 
That 1 shall live and tell him to his teeth, 
Thus diddest thou. Shakspeare. 
To cast in the Tef.th. To insult by open exprobation.— 
A wise body’s part it were not to put out his fire, because 
his fond and foolish neighbour from whom he borrowed 
wherewith to kindle it, might cast him therewith in the 
teeth , saying. Were it not for me thou would’st freeze, and 
not be able to heat thyself] Hooker. 
In spite of the Teeth. Notwithstanding threats ex¬ 
pressed by shewing teeth; notwithstanding any power of 
injury or defence.—The guiltiness of my mind drove the 
grossness of the foppery into a a received belief, in despite of 
the teeth of all rhime and reason, that they were fairies. 
Shakspeare. 
To shew the Teeth. To threaten. 
When the law shews her teeth, but dares not bite. 
And South-Sea treasures are not brought to light. Young. 
To TOOTH, v. a. To furnish with teeth ; to indent.— 
Then saws were tooth'd, and sounding axes made. Dryden. 
—To lock in each other.—It is common to tooth in the 
stretching course two inches with the stretcher only. Moxon. 
TO'OTH-ACHE, s. Pain in the teeth. 
There never yet was the philosopher 
That could endure the tooth-ache patiently, 
However at their ease they talk’d like gods. Shakspeare. 
TO'OTH-DRAWER, s. One whose business is to ex¬ 
tract painful teeth. 
TO'OTHED, adj. Having teeth. Sharp like a tooth. 
Prompt. Parv. 
So I charm’d their ears. 
That calf-like, they my lowing follow'd, through 
Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns. 
Shakspeare. 
TO'OTHFUL, adj. Toothsome : not in use, but the 
true word in Massinger, as Mr. Gifford has observed. 
What dainty relish on my tongue 
This fruit hath left! some angel hath me fed : 
If so toothful , I will be banqueted. Massinger. 
TO'OTHLESS, adj. [coSleap, Saxon.] Wanting teeth; 
deprived of teeth. 
Deep dinted wrinkles on her cheeks she draws. 
Sunk are her eyes, and toothless are her jaws. Dryden. 
TO'OTHPICK, or To'othpicker, s. An instrument 
by which the teeth are cleansed from any thing sticking 
between 
