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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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46,105 words match “TO”

To-morrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOMORROW adv. 2 definitions

On the day after the present day; on the next day; on the morrow. Summon him to-morrow to the Tower. Shak.

TOMPION n. 3 definitions

A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.

An inking pad used in lithographic printing.

A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a tomboy. Dennis.

A Florida and West Indian grunt (Bathystoma, or Hæmulon, rimator); also, any of various allied species.

TOMTIT n. 2 definitions

A titmouse, esp. the blue titmouse. [Prov.eng.]

TON n. 5 definitions

pl. of Toe. Chaucer.

freight transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the products obtained by multiplying the aggregate weight of each shipment in tons during the given period by the number of miles for which it is carried.

Ton miles collectively; esp., the total ton miles performed by a railroad in a given period.

y virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole. The predominance of the tonic as the link which connects all the tones of a piece, we may, with Fétis, term the principle of tonality. Helmholtz.

See Tonka bean.

TONE n. 17 definitions

idered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone. [Harmony divine] smooths her charming tones. Milton. Tones that with seraph hymns might blend. Keble.

Having (such) a tone; -- chiefly used in composition; as, high- toned; sweet-toned. Toned paper, paper having a slight tint, in distinction from paper which is quite white.

Having no tone; unmusical.

Tongue. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

A kind of boat or junk used in the seas of the Malay Archipelago.

The mangrove; -- so called in the Pacific Islands.

An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a pair of tongs.