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Anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.

The grivet.

Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss. " Total darkness." "To undergo myself the total crime." Milton. Total abstinence. See Abstinence, n., 1. -- Total depravity. (Theol.) See Original sin, under Original.

The total.

Same as Totalizator.

The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.

Act of totalizing, or state of being totalized.

ber and nature of bets made on horse races, as in Australia and South Africa. Called also totalizer.

To make total, or complete;to reduce to completeness. Coleridge.

Same as Totalizator.

In a total manner; wholly; entirely.

The quality or state of being total; entireness; totality.

A coniferous tree (Podocarpus totara), next to the kauri the most valuable timber tree of New Zeland. Its hard reddish wood is used for furniture and building, esp. in wharves, bridges, etc. Also mahogany pine.

To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; -- a colloquial word of the Southern States, and used esp. by negroes.

To tear or rend in pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

nd they painted on the grave posts Of the graves, yet unforgotten, Each his own ancestral totem Each the symbol of his household; Figures of the bear and reindeer, Of the turtle, crane, and beaver. Longfellow. The totem,the clan deity, the beast or bird who in some supernatural way attends tothe clan and watches over i…

A pole or pillar, carved and painted with a series of totemic symbols, set up before the house of certain Indian tribes of the northwest coast of North America, esp. Indians of the Koluschan stock.

Of or pertaining to a totem, or totemism.

The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem.

One belonging to a clan or tribe having a totem. -- To`tem*is"tic, a.