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One who deals toys.

A shop where toys are sold.

Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton. [R.] Ford.

To pull violently; to touse. [Obs.]

Soft, like wool that has been teased. -- To"zi*ness, n.

On tiptoe; eagerly expecting. We all feel a-tiptoe with hope and confidence. F. Harrison.

One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. [Obs.]

(a) One who abates a nuisance. (b) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone.

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.

One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

One who abdicates.

A place for hiding or preserving articles of value. Cowell.

A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

A weeding machine.

One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender.

Containing abjuration.

One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything. [R.]

One who repeals by authority.

Serving to absolve; absolving. "An absolutory sentence." Ayliffe.