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The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton. Byron. If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish. Thackeray. Bon ton. See in the Vocabulary.

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.

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.

bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a pair of tongs.

The power of articulate utterance; speech. Parrots imitating human tongue. Dryden.

A great talker. [Obs.]

Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.

Any species of Lingula.

Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the frænum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums. Dunglison.

Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.

The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]