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2 above. -- To snake one's toilet, to dress one's self; especially, to dress one's self carefully.

Producing or involving much toil; laborious; toilsome; as, toilful care. Mickle.

y some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality. Equity, the true touch of all laws. Carew. Friends of noble touch . Shak.

To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner. [Colloq.] Pope.

A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey. Carew.

To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform. The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols. Buckminster. Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy. H. Smith.

To pass over and view; to survey carefully. My purpose is to traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice -- ingratitude. South.

One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; one who has charge of collected funds; as, the treasurer of a society or c…

To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient.

Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. Shak. Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful, Heart so full of care and cumber. Longfellow.

To commit, as to one's care; to intrust. Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war. Macaulay.

To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.

sease; to try a horse. Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me. Shak. To ease her cares the force of sleep she tries. Swift.

Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.

-- To turn a corner, to go round a corner. -- To turn adrift, to cast off, to cease to care for. -- To turn a flange (Mech.), to form a flange on, as around a metal sheet or boiler plate, by stretching, bending, and hammering, or rolling the metal. -- To turn against. (a) To direct against; as, to turn one's argum…

nd from the Falkland Islands. (b) A tufted grass (Aira cæspitosa). (c) Any kind of sedge (Carex) which forms dense tufts in a wet meadow or boggy place. -- Tussock moth (Zoöl.), the imago of any tussock caterpillar. They belong to Orgyia, Halecidota, and allied genera.

The state of being under a guardian; care or protection enjoyed. V. Knox.

One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing. Specifically: --

The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage. Hooker.

Inattentive; careless.