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The tunny. [R.]

The art of employing perfumes in medicine. [R.] Dunglison.

A species of gause, or very silk. The smoke of sulphur . . . is commonly used by women to whiten tiffanies. Sir T. Browne.

Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin. "The tinny strand." Drayton.

Very small; little; puny. When that I was and a little tiny boy. Shak.

Tolyl. [Obs.]

A simpleton. L'Estrange. A pattern and companion fit For all the keeping tonies of the pit. Dryden.

A name of a place; more broadly, a name, as in the binomial name of a plant, based on, or derived from, a place name, or based on the location of the thing named.

A system of toponyms; the use of toponyms. -- To*pon"y*mal (#), Top`o*nym"ic (#), Top`o*nym"ic*al (#), a.

Belonging to train oil. [Obs.] Gay.

A division of chelonians which comprises Trionyx and allied genera; -- called also Trionychoides, and Trionychina.

A genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shell imperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. They are noted for their agility and rapacity. Called also soft tortoise, soft-shell tortoise, and mud turtle.

An honest fellow. Shak. Bacon.

Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.

Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus or Albacora thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American c…

, Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.

Of the value of twopence.

Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. "Thine 's a tympany of sense." Dryden. A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence. De Quincey.

Small; tiny. [Obs.]

government. "Sir," would he [Seneca] say, "an emperor mote need Be virtuous and hate tyranny." Chaucer.