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A toucan (Ramphastos toco) having a very large beak. See Illust. under Toucan.

ics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of parturition. [Written also tokology.]

A cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end.

An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm. The loud tocsin tolled their last alarm. Campbell.

A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump. [R.] "An ivy todde." Spenser. The ivy tod is heavy with snow. Coleridge.

To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.

One who toddles; especially, a young child. Mrs. Gaskell.

A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.

Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.

erminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal. "Each one, tripping on his toe." Shak.

A morbid condition of the foot in which the toe is depressed and the heel elevated.

A hold in which the agressor bends back his opponent's foot.

Having (such or so many) toes; -- chiefly used in composition; as, narrow-toed, four-toed.

A fop; a beau; a swell. [Slang, Eng.] Kipling.

Taffy. [Eng.]

Before. [Obs.] Toforn him goeth the loud minstrelsy. Chaucer. Would thou wert as thou tofore hast been! Shak.

A knoll or hill. [Obs.] "A tower on a toft." Piers Plowman.

The owner of a toft. See Toft, 3.

Tophus.

To put toggery, or togs, on; to dress; -- usually with out, implying care, elaborateness, or the like. [Colloq. or Slang] Harper's Weekly.