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The reddish brown wood of an East Indian tree (Cedrela Toona) closely resembling the Spanish cedar; also. the tree itself.

Same as Toon.

See Baton, and Baston.

A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other.

g; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.

One skilled in drawing cartoons.

A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values.

To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons. Sir J. Herschel.

A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.

See Melocoton.

See Melocoton.

A kind of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow. [Written also malacatoon, malacotune.]

A short musket.

Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.

ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter. Pontoon bridge, a bridge formed with pontoons. -- Pontoon train, the carriages of the pontoons, and the materials they carry for making a pontoon bridge.

The act, art, or process of constructing pontoon bridges. "Army instruction in pontooning." Gen. W. T. Shermah.

A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit. [Obs.] Nares.

Same as Rattoon, n.

One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.