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The knave of trumps at gleek. [Obs.]

Formerly, a wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospitel, Eng.; hence, a wandering mendicant, either mad or feigning to be so; a madman; a bedlamite.

A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, etc., and beaten up with eggs.

See Tam-tam.

To cut, strike, or kill, with a tomahawk.

The liver of the lobster, which becomes green when boiled; -- called also tomalline.

A money of account in Persia, whose value varies greatly at different times and places. Its average value may be reckoned at about two and a half dollars.

in shape. It is of a bright red or yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked. Tomato gall (Zoöl.), a large gall consisting of a mass of irregular swellings on the stems and leaves of grapevines. They are yellowish green, somewhat tinged with red, and produced by the larva of a small two-winged fly (Lasiopte…

the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher. As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Shak.

ten 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.

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.