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called also German, or Dutch, brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac. [Written also tombak, and tambac.]

A female dancer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Destitute of a tomb.

A romping girl; a hoiden. [Colloq.] J. Fletcher.

A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.

A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.

A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the Northen United States; -- called also frostfish. See Illust. under Frostfish.

tings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; -- usually applied to a ponderous volume. Tomes of fable and of dream. Cowper. A more childish expedient than that to which he now resorted is not to be found in all the tomes of the casuists. Macaulay.

All small tome, or volume. [R.]

Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; a tomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.

Tomentose.

The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.

A great fool; a trifler.

Folly; trifling.

The cutting edge of the bill of a bird.

A kind of open sedan used in Ceylon, carried by a single pole on men's shoulders.

Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance. [Slang,Eng.]

Any white regular soldier of the British army; also, such soldiers collectively; -- said to be fictitious name inserted in the models given to soldiers to guide them in filling out account blanks, etc.

A sea bird, the puffin. [Prov.Eng.]

A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa.