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To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted. If you tickle us, do we not laugh Shak.

To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound. At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. 1 Sam. iii. 11.

The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation. A. Tucker.

A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding. Toll and team (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins. Burrill. -- Toll bar, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers. -- Toll bridge, a bridge wher…

arles Reade. -- Tooth coralline (Zoöl.), any sertularian hydroid. -- Tooth edge, the sensation excited in the teeth by grating sounds, and by the touch of certain substances, as keen acids. -- Tooth key, an instrument used to extract teeth by a motion resembling that of turning a key. -- Tooth net, a large fishing…

so, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head.

and comic scenes. -- Trag`-com"ic*al*ly, adv. Julian felt toward him that tragi-comic sensation which makes us pity the object which excites it not the less that we are somewhat inclined to laugh amid our sympathy. Sir W. Scott.

at the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible. He fell down in a trance. Chaucer.

The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect.

If, pertaining to, or consisting of, three colors or color sensations.

A suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing forces; a temporary cessation of hostilities, for negotiation or other purpose; an armistice.

pression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation. The turn of both his expressions and thoughts is unharmonious. Dryden. The Roman poets, in their description of a beautiful man, often mention the turn of his neck and arms. Addison.

The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

To relieve of numbness; to restore sensation to.

To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.

Not to be freed by dispensation. [Obs.]

Not freed by dispensation. [R.] Tooker.

The pulsation caused by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison; -- called also beat.

ng different impressions on the retina according to their amplitude and frequency, the sensation of brightness depending on the former, that of color on the latter. The undulations are supposed to take place, not in the direction of propagation, as in the air waves constituting sound, but transversely, and the various…

Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.