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a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions.

Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts. Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts. Shak. Some three months since, or thereabout. Suckling.

As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity. For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love. Dryden.

A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better. [Colloq.] If the hair were a thought browner. Shak.

A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer. [Written also timbre.]

Payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as toll. Drayton.

A measure of weight or quantity. Specifically: --

A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore.

The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge. Buckle. The totality of a sentence or passage. Coleridge.

A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash. Eyes La touch of Sir Peter Lely in them. Hazlitt. Madam, I have a touch of your condition. Shak.

A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis;-hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.

A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea. A very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrowtract of earth. Addison.

To change; to transform; to invert. [R.] Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Shak.

A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty. We have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley, and of oil and of honey. Jer. xli. 8.

In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply. Swift.

The quantity or number which fills a tree.

A quantity consisting of three terms, connected by the sign + or -; as, x + y + z, or ax + 2b - c2.

A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.

A cock for withdrawing a small quantity of liquid, as for testing.

The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc.