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n article of trade of little value; a trifle. They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of gold and pearl. Abr. Abbot.

This year. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.

Full of trifling play. [Obs.] Donne.

A house for children to play in or to play with; a playhouse.

In a toying manner.

Resembling a toy. --Toy"ish*ly, dv.-Toy"ish*ness, n.

One who deals toys.

A shop where toys are sold.

Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton. [R.] Ford.

Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.

Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors. Cleaceland.

A hypothetical radical (C8H15O), regarded as the essential residue of octoic acid.

Of or pertaining to Tolstoy (1828-1910). -- n.

A fault, wrong, or mistake. [Obs.] Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. Shak.

An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.

sees of one's self in the eyes of another. She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes. Heywood.

A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable objects. Macaulay.

The toy called cup and ball.

h which the slat is whirled so as to cause an intermittent roaring noise. It is used as a toy, and among some races in certain religious rites.