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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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loth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga prætexta. Toga prætexta. Etym: [L.], a toga with a broad purple border, worn by children of both sexes, by magistrates, and by persons engaged in sacred rites. -- Toga virilis Etym: [L.], the manly gown; the common toga. Thi…

Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned. [R.] Sir M. Sandys.

Togated. [Obs. or R.] Shak.

TOGETHER adv. 3 definitions

In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can never stand idle long together. Landor.

Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery. [Colloq.] togs

TOGGLE n. 2 definitions

A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.

Taut. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOGIDER; TOGIDRES adv.

Together. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Clothes; garments; toggery. [Colloq. or Slang]

To hew in pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Chaos; confusion.

TOIL n. 5 definitions

taking prey; -- usually in the plural. As a Numidian lion, when first caught, Endures the toil that holds him. Denham. Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found. Dryden.

One who toils, or labors painfully.

TOILET n. 3 definitions

Act or mode of dressing, or that which is arranged in dressing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect. [Written also toilette.] Toilet glass, a looking-glass for a toilet table or for a dressing room. -- Toilet service, Toilet set, earthenware, glass, and other utensils for a dressing room. -- Toilet table, a dres…

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

A cloth, the weft of which is of woolen yarn, and the warp of cotton and silk, -- used for w

Free from toil.

Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work. What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks Milton. -- Toil"some*ly, adv. -- Toil"some*ness, n.