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The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.

To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

One who toasts.

a. & n. from Toast, v. Toasting fork, a long-handled fork for toasting bread, cheese, or the like, by the fire.

A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.

The handle of a joiner's plane. Knight.

smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.

Smoking tobacco. [Obs.] "Tobacconing is but a smoky play." [Obs.] Sylvester.

A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.

The lant, or sand eel.

A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end. [Local, U. S.]

A stout twilled silk used for dresses.

A book of the Apocrypha.

ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow. [Written also tobogan, and tarbogan.]

One who practices tobogganing.

A small jug, pitcher, or mug, generally used for ale, shaped somewhat like a stout man, with a cocked hat forming the brim.

An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio.

A short or simple toccata.

Dowry brought by a bride to her husband. [Scot.] Burns.

A spotted lizard native of India.