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A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.

One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer. Cowper.

See Dolmen.

A toll or tribute of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants, for liberty to brew and sell ale. Cowell.

A tollbooth; also, a merchants' meeting place, or exchange. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Of or pertaining to Tolstoy (1828-1910). -- n.

A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court. Cowell.

One of a race which formerly occupied Mexico. -- Tol"te*can, a.

A fragrant balsam said to have been first brought from Santiago de Tolu, in New Granada. See Balsam of Tolu, under Balsam. Tolu tree (Bot.), a large tree (Myroxylon toluiferum), the wood of which is red in the center, and has an aromatic rose odor. It affords the balsam called tolu.

A salt of any one of the toluic acids.

, homologous with benzene, and obtained as a light mobile colorless liquid, by distilling tolu balsam, coal tar, etc.; -- called also methyl benzene, phenyl methane, etc.

Tolyl. [Obs.]

ing to, or designating, one of three metameric acids, CH3.C6H4.CO2H, which are related to toluene and analogous to benzoic acids. They are white crystalline substances, and are called respectively orthotoluic acid, metatoluic acid, and paratoluic acid.

A complex double tolyl and toluidine derivative of glycocoll, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Any one of three metameric amido derivatives of toluene analogous to aniline, and called respectively orthtoluidine, metatoluidine, and paratoluidine; especially, the commonest one, or paratoluidine, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Same as Toluene.

to, or designating, any one of three isomeric crystalline acids, C9H10ON.CO2H, which are toluyl derivatives of glycocoll.

A pacing or ambling. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Any one of the three hypothetical radicals corresponding to the three toluic acids.

Sometimes, but less properly, tolylene.