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An old measure of length in France, containing six French feet, or about 6.3946 French feet.

A sheep's fleece.

Lit., the golden fleece; specif., the order of the Golden Fleece, or its jewel.

A rich Hungarian wine made from Tokay grapes.

Something intended or supposed to represent or indicate another thing or an event; a sign; a symbol; as, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant established with Noah.

Marked by tokens, or spots; as, the tokened pestilence. [Obs.] Shak.

Without a token.

A tocsin. [Obs.] Halliwell.

To take away. See Toll.

A weight of British India. The standard tola is equal to 180 grains.

A hydrocarbon, C14H10, related both to the acetylene and the aromatic series, and produced artificially as a white crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl acetylene.

See Tollbooth.

imp. & p. p. of Tell.

To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait. [Written also toll.] Whatever you observe him to be more frighted at then he should, tole him on to by insensible degrees, till at last he masters the difficulty.

A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.

The quality or state of being tolerable. [R.] Fuller. Wordsworth.

ortable, either physically or mentally. As may affect tionearth with cold and heat Scarce tolerable. Milton.

apacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance. Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market place,shaking, to show his tolerance. Bacon.

Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; ingulgent.

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices. Crying should not be tolerated in children. Locke. We tolerate them because property and liberty, to a degree, require that toleration.…