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Pertaining to, or designating, one of three metameric acids, CH3.C6H4.CO2H, which are related to toluene and analogous to benzoic acids. They are white crystalline substances, and are called respectively orthotoluic acid, metatoluic acid, and paratoluic acid.

A complex double tolyl and toluidine derivative of glycocoll, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Any one of three metameric amido derivatives of toluene analogous to aniline, and called respectively orthtoluidine, metatoluidine, and paratoluidine; especially, the commonest one, or paratoluidine, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Same as Toluene.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of three isomeric crystalline acids, C9H10ON.CO2H, which are toluyl derivatives of glycocoll.

A pacing or ambling. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Any one of the three hypothetical radicals corresponding to the three toluic acids.

Sometimes, but less properly, tolylene.

CH3.C6H4, regarded as characteristic of certain compounds of the aromatic series related to toluene; as, tolyl carbinol.

A hydrocarbon radical, C6H4.(CH2)2, regarded as characteristic of certain toluene derivatives.

The apar.

The knave of trumps at gleek. [Obs.]

rable from Bethlehem Hospitel, Eng.; hence, a wandering mendicant, either mad or feigning to be so; a madman; a bedlamite.

A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, etc., and beaten up with eggs.

See Tam-tam.

A kind of war hatchet used by the American Indians. It was originally made of stone, but afterwards of iron.

The liver of the lobster, which becomes green when boiled; -- called also tomalline.

A money of account in Persia, whose value varies greatly at different times and places. Its average value may be reckoned at about two and a half dollars.

in shape. It is of a bright red or yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked. Tomato gall (Zoöl.), a large gall consisting of a mass of irregular swellings on the stems and leaves of grapevines. They are yellowish green, somewhat tinged with red, and produced by the larva of a small two-winged fly (Lasiopte…

the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher. As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Shak.