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A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.

To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.

A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue. Chaucer. Whose tongue thou shalt not understand. Deut. xxviii. 49. To speak all tongues. Milton.

In a topical manner; with application to, or limitation of, a particular place or topic.

One who is skilled in the science of topography; one who describes a particular place, town, city, or tract of land. Dante is the one authorized topographer of the mediæval hell. Milman.

The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.

A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. Swift.

The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch, also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.

To discourse on; to handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely.

A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract. Chaucer. He published a treatise in which he maintained that a marriage between a member of the Church of England and a dissenter was a nullity. Macaulay.

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.

A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning. The trick of that voice I do well remember. Shak. He hath a trick of Coeur de Lion's face. Shak.

A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.

A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits.

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

ock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.

An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.

or twist in the fibers of any one animal which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture. Addison.

A numerical coefficient in any particular case of the binomial theorem. [Obs.]