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The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.

To take away; to vacate; to annul.

Subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods. Wright.

Payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as toll. Drayton.

A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. [Obs.] He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. Wyclif (Mark ii. 14).

A toll gatherer. "Tollers in markets." Piers Plowman.

Of or pertaining to Toledo in Spain; made in Toledo. [Obs.] "Tables Tolletanes." Chaucer.

A gate where toll is taken.

A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.

One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer. Cowper.

See Dolmen.

A toll or tribute of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants, for liberty to brew and sell ale. Cowell.

A tollbooth; also, a merchants' meeting place, or exchange. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Of or pertaining to Tolstoy (1828-1910). -- n.

A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court. Cowell.

One of a race which formerly occupied Mexico. -- Tol"te*can, a.

A fragrant balsam said to have been first brought from Santiago de Tolu, in New Granada. See Balsam of Tolu, under Balsam. Tolu tree (Bot.), a large tree (Myroxylon toluiferum), the wood of which is red in the center, and has an aromatic rose odor. It affords the balsam called tolu.

A salt of any one of the toluic acids.

, homologous with benzene, and obtained as a light mobile colorless liquid, by distilling tolu balsam, coal tar, etc.; -- called also methyl benzene, phenyl methane, etc.

Tolyl. [Obs.]