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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.

low, 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.

endurance. Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market place,shaking, to show his tolerance. Bacon.

Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; ingulgent.

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. Burke.

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

To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.

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.