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One who toils, or labors painfully.

Act or mode of dressing, or that which is arranged in dressing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect. [Written also toilette.] Toilet glass, a looking-glass for a toilet table or for a dressing room. -- Toilet service, Toilet set, earthenware, glass, and other utensils for a dressing room. -- Toilet table, a dres…

See Toilet, 3.

g the aggregate weight of each shipment in tons during the given period by the number of miles for which it is carried.

Ton miles collectively; esp., the total ton miles performed by a railroad in a given period.

Capable of being clipped.

Twisted; wreathed; coiled.

Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.

Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage.

t of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant. trailer park. An area equipped to accommodate trailers (2), often with outlets supplying electrical power and water. Called also trailer camp, trailer court.

Same as Tréflé.

l propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma.

An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are three octants, or three eighths of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other. Hutton.

A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1.

Umbratic. [R.] B. Jonson.

Some time ago; formerly. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott. -- a.

Undefiled. [Obs.] Gower.

To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.

Inadequately equipped with sails. [Obs.]

Not fertile; infertile; barren. -- Un*fer"tile*ness, n.