tollbooth, tolbothe

[Eng. toll (1), s., and booth.] *1. A place where duties or tolls are collected. "Those other disciples, whose calling is recorded, were from the fisher-boat; this, from the tollbooth ."-Bp. Hall: Contempl.; Matthew Called. 2. The old name for a municipal jail, so called because that was the name originally given to a temporary hut of boards erected in fairs and markets, and where such as did not pay, or were chargeable with some breach of the law in buying or selling, were confined till reparation was made; hence, any prison. The town prison of Cambridge, England, was formerly known by this name. "The mayor refused to give them the keys of the Toll booth or town prison."-Fuller: Hist. Cambridge , vii. 25. "The place under it is their Tolsey or Exchange, for the meeting of their merchants."-De Foe: Tour thro' Great Britain, iii. 239. *tolt, s . [Low Lat. tolt a , from Lat. tollo to take away.]' Eng . Law : A writ whereby a cause depending in a court-baron was removed into a county-court. tō-lû, s. [Named from Santiago de Tolu, a seaport of Granada, from which it is believed that tolu was first brought.] 1. Bot ., .: A balsam derived from Myrospermum toluiferum, the Tolu-tree, an elegant evergreen, so lofty that sometimes the first branch is forty to sixty feet from the ground. The leaves are pinnated and marked with transparent dots; the leaflets membranous, obovate, taper-pointed, the terminal one the largest. It is a native of Venezuela and New Granada. The balsam flows from incisions made in the stem of the tree, and is at first of the consistence of turpentine, but becomes more tenacious when kept for a time. It is yellow or brown, and transparent, and is used as an ingredient in a syrup and in lozenges. 2. Pharm.: Balsam of Tolu is a stimulant and expectorant, given in chronic bronchitis and rheumatism. It also diminishes exce ive discharges in gleet and leucorrhea. Externally it is used as a stimulant in ulcers, bed sores, . ( Garrod .)