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ait. [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.

A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.

A porridge or gruel of maize meal and water, milk, or the like. [Sp. Amer.]

A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer. [Obs.]

A product from cottonseed, used as lard.

The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.

a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal ova.

One who writes epistles; a correspondent. Mary Cowden Clarke.

One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.

A little epistle. Lamb.

See Fridstol. Fuller.

Contraction of only one ventricle of the heart.

The quality of being intolerable; intolerableness. [R.]