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TOTE v. 2 definitions

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…

TOTEM POLE; TOTEM POST n.

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.

TOTEMISM n. 2 definitions

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.

The stone roller. See Stone roller (a), under Stone.

A noun which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun.

ARISTOTELIAN a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.). -- n.

ARISTOTELIANISM n.

The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy.

Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy. "Aristotelic usage." Sir W. Hamilton.

urve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. Asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. A rectilinear asymptote may be conceived as a tangent to the curve at an infinite distance.

A noun which has only two cases. Andrews.

A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression; as, " a citizen of no mean city," that is, of an illustrious city.

MONOPTOTE n. 2 definitions

A noun having only one case. Andrews.

A noun having five cases.

PHOTOTELEGRAPHY n.

Telegraphy by means of light, as by the heliograph or the photophone. Also, less properly, telephotography. -- Pho`to*tel"e*graph (#), n. --Pho`to*tel`e*graph"ic (#), a.

PHOTOTELESCOPE n.

A telescope adapted for taking photographs of the heavenly bodies.