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To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell. "The sexton tolled the bell." Hood.

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.

A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.

One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer. Cowper.

A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.

Lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle. Derham.

One who extols; one who praises.

An American Indian game analogous to dice, probably originally a method of divination.

Like a wittol; cuckoldly. [Obs.] Shak.

A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties. Johnson.

n to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. Bell.

A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.

A toll for passage through a forest. [Obs.] Cowell.

An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple.

border the land; barrier reefs, when separated from the shore by a broad belt of water; atolls, when they constitute separate islands, usually inclosing a lagoon. See Atoll. -- Coral root (Bot.), a genus (Corallorhiza) of orchideous plants, of a yellowish or brownish red color, parasitic on roots of other plants, and…