touzet

See touse. = OHG. zogon, MHG. zogen = Icel. toga ), draw, pull, tow, a secondary form of teón (pret. teáh , pp. togen ), E. obs. tee , draw: see teel . Cf. tow2, tug, tuck1 , from the same ult. source.] 1. Το pull; draw; haul; especially, to drag through the water by means of a rope or chain: as, to tow a small boat astern; to tow a ve el into har- bor. The towing of boats on canals is generally performed by horses or mules; on other waters, by steamboats spe- cially constructed for the purpose, and known as towboats or tugboats , or simply as tugs . Thanks, Kingly Captain; daign vs then (we pray) Som skilfull Pylot through this Fvriovs Bay; Or, in this Chanell, sith we are to learn, Vouchsafe to togh vs at your Royall Stern. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Furies. Whilst we tow up a tyde, tow1 (to), n. [ in tow . Nor like poor Psyche whom she drags in tow . Tennyson, Prince , iii. 2. A ve el or number of ve els that are be- ing towed. IMG:content-0662.png:[blocks in formation] mane and conscientious men throughout the North who were not Abolitionists. G. S. Merriam , S. Bowles, I. 237. 4. For; for the purpose of completing, pro- moting, fostering, defraying, relieving, or the like; as a help or contribution to. Giue the pore of thy good; Part thou therof toward their want, Giue them reliefe and fo[o]d. [ Toward was formerly sometimes divided, and the object inserted between. No good woorke is ought worth to heauenward without Sir T. More , Cumfort against Tribulation (1573), fol. 25. And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward. 2 Cor. iii. 4. Whose streams run forth there to the salt sea-side, Here back return, and to their spring ward go. Fairfax .] To be toward onet, to be on one's side or of his company. Herod and they that were toward him. To have toward onet. See look1 . toward (tō'ärd), a. Bp . Andrews , Sermons, V. vi. See have. - To look toward. [ toward , tō- weard , adj., future, to come, coming to or toward one, to , to, + -weard , becoming, E. -ward.] 1. Coming; coming near; approach- ing; near; future; also, at hand; present. Ffor ye haue a werke towarde , and that right grete, where-as ye shall haue grete peyne and traueyle, an I shall telle yow what. Envying my toward good. Spenser , F. Q., II. iv. 22. Vouchsafe, my toward kinsman, gracious madam, The favour of your hand. B. Jonson, Staple of News, ii. Young Faith Snowe was toward to keep the old men's cups aflow. R. D. Black more, Lorna Doone, xiv. 2. Yielding; pliant; hence, docile; ready to do or to learn; apt; not froward. The La of Lochroyan (Child's Ballads, II. 107). If a word of your mouth could hang the haill Porteous mob at the tail of ae tow . Scott , Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxxvii. tow3 (tō; Sc. pron. tou), n. [ tow , to we , tow (in comp. towlic , of spinning ( towlic weorc, spinning-work), tow - hūs , spinning-house), = MD. touw , tow (cf. touwe , the instrument of a weaver), = LG. tou , touw , implements, = Icel. to , a tuft of wool for spinning, = Dan. tave , fiber, = Goth. tau i ( tojis ), work, a thing made; from the root of taw1 , prepare, work: see tawl , and 3t. Promising; likely; forward. ef. tooll .] 1. The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle. IMG:content-0663.png:[blocks in formation] Goode sir, be toward this tyme, And tarie noght my trace, For I haue tythandis to telle. York Plays , p. 226. Tis a good hearing when children are toward . Shak., T. of the S., v. 2. 182. hila, dwehila , MHG. twehele, twehel , dwehele , dwele (also quehele , G. dial. quähle ), a towel, = D. dwaal , a towel, dweil , a clout, = AS. thwehlæ =Goth. * thwahljo , a towel; from a noun shown in AS. thweál , washing, bath, = OHG. dwahal , bath, = Icel. thvāl , soap, = Goth. thwahl , wash- ing, bath (cf. MHG. twuhel , tub), thwahan = OHG. dwahan , MHG. twahen , dwahen , G. (dial.) zwagen , wash, bathe, = Icel. thu a = Dan. toe = Sw. två , wash, = Goth. thwa- han , wash, bathe; cf. OPru . twaxtan , a bath- ing-dre .] 1. A cloth used for wiping any- thing dry; especially, a cloth for drying the person after bathing or washing. Phebus eek a fair towaille him broughte, To drye him with. Chaucer , Monk's Tale, 1. 755. Item, iiij. tewelles playn warke, eche cont' in lenthe ij. yerds, dim'. Paston Letters , I. 489. With a cleane Towel , not with his shirt, for this would make them blockish and for get full. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 194. 2. Eccles .: (a) The rich covering of silk and gold which used to be laid over the top of the altar except during ma . (b) A linen altar- cloth.- An oaken towel, a cudgel. [Slang.] I have here a good oaken towel at your service. Smollett , Humphrey Clinker, J. Melford to Sir W. Phillips, [Bath, May 17. A lead towel, a bullet. [Slang.] Make Nunky surrender his dibs, Rub his pate with a pair of lead towels. to well (tou'el), v .; pret. and pp. toweled , tow- elled, ppr. toweling , towelling . [ He now appeared in his doorway, towelling his hands. Dickens, Great Expectations, xxxvi, Letting his head drop into a festoon of towel, and towel- ling away at his two ears. Dickens, Great Expectations, xxvi. Same as tewel . towardline (to'ärd-li-nes), n. The character towel2t of being toward; readine to do or learn; apttowel-gourd (tou'el-gōrd), n. ne ; docility. The beauty and towardline of these children moved towel-horse (tou'el-hôrs), n . Raleigh , Hist. World. or stand to hang towels on. towardly (tō'ärd-li), a. [ toward , a ., + -ly1 .] 1. Ready to do or learn; apt; docile; tract a- ble; compliant with duty. The towardly likelie-hood of this spring all to do you honest seruice. Florio , It. Dict. (1598), Ep. Ded., p. [4]. I am like to have a towardly scholar of you. I. Walton , Complete Angler, p. 68. 21. Forward; promising; precocious; early as regards season or state of advancement. Easterly windes blasteth towardly blo oms. Lyly , Euphues and his England, p. 451. Dryden, Prol. to Wild Gallant. towardne (tō'ärd-nes), n. [ toward , a ., + -ne .] The character of being toward; do- cility; towardline . There appeared in me som small shew of towardnes and Ascham , The Scholemaster, p. 134. diligence. For the towardnes I see in thee, I must needs loue thee. Lyly , Euphues and his England, p. 241. towards (tō'ärdz), prep . and adv . [Early mod. E.also to war des ; sometimes contracted tow'rds ; to war des , tōweardes , toward, to- weard + adv.gen. -es .] I. prep . Same as toward . II. adv . Toward the place in question; for- ward. [Rare.] Tho, when as still he saw him towards pace, He gan rencounter him in equall race. This fire, like the eye of gordian snake Bewitch'd me towards . Keats , Endymion, iii. Deut. xxviii. 54. towardst (to'ärdz), a. [Erroneously used for toward, a.] Same as toward , a ., 1. Then their anger was abated toward him. Judges viii. 3. I will be thy adversary toward Anne Page. Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 3. 99. These and many other were his Councels toward a civil Warr. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, x. IMG:content-0664.png:[blocks in formation] 3. A whipping; a thrashing. [Slang.] I got a towelling , but it did not do me much good. tower minarets attached to Mohammedan mosques; the lofty bell-towers of Ru ia; the pillar or round towers of India, Ireland, and other places (see round tower ); the square and octagonal towers at the west ends, cro ings, etc., of Towers Forming the Chief Element in a Church Design.- Western façade of Notre Dame, Paris, built in the 12th and the early part of the 13th century. churches; the ma ive keeps and gate and wall-towers of castles and mansions; the peels of Scottish fortre es; the pagodas of India and China; the pharos, the campanile, and a great variety of similar buildings. Compare spirel and steeple, and see cuts under bridge - tower, campanile, castle, gabled, gate - tower, keep, lantern, pagoda, peel, and Rhenish . On the West syde is a fair Tour and an highe, for Belles, strongly made. Mandeville , Travels, p. 75. In the early pointed architecture of England, western towers are le common and le imposing than those of early Gothic buildings in France. But the Norman feature of a vast tower at the cro ing of nave and transept, seldom adopted by the French Gothic builders, was perpetuated in England. C. H. Moore , Gothic Architecture, p. 165. 2. In early and medieval warfare, a tall, movable wooden structure used in storming a fortified place. The height of the tower was such as to overtop the walls and other fortifications of the besieged place. Such towers were frequently combined with a battering ram, and thus served the double purpose of breaching the walls and giving protection to the besiegers. 3. A citadel; a fortre ; a place of defense or protection. Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. 4t. In astrol., a mansion. Now fleeth Venus into Cylenius tour. Ps. lxi. 3. Chaucer , Complaint of Mars, 1. 113. 5. In her., a bearing representing a fortified tower with battlements and usually a gate with a portcullis.-6. A high commode or headdre worn by women in the reigns of William III. and Anne. It was built up of paste- board, ribbons, and lace; the lace and ribbons were disposed in alter- nate tiers, or the latter were formed into high stiffened bows, draped or not, according to taste, with a lace scarf or veil that streamed down each side of the pinnacle. Compare fontange and commode. Lay trains of amorous intrigues In tow'rs , and curls, and periwigs. S. Butler , Hudibras to his Lady, [1. 186. 7t. A wig or the natural hair built up very high. 6406 Adriatic and on the Danube are called Maximilian towers ( Larou e ). - Mural tower. See mural. - Round tower, a tall, slender tower tapering from the base upward, of circular section, and generally with a conical top. Round towers are often met with in Ireland, and occur, but much more rarely, in Scotland, rising from 30 to 130 feet in height, and having a diameter of from 20 to 30 feet. A variety of theories have been advanced in regard to the period of these towers and the purposes they were designed to serve, and antiquarian opinion has been greatly divided on these subjects; their construction has been a igned by some leading authorities to a period ranging from the ninth to the twelfth century, and they have been supposed to have served as strongholds into Round Tower at Ardmore, County Water ford, Ireland. the inhabitants of the neighborhood, could retreat with which, in times of danger, the ecclesiastics, and perhaps their valuables. - Tower bastion, in fort., a small tower in the form of a bastion, with rooms or cells underneath for men and guns. - Tower of London (often called simply the Tower ), a tower or keep, now a large a emblage of buildings occupying an area of 12 or 13 acres, on an elevation just beyond the old walls of the city of London, southeastward, on the northern bank of the Thames. The tower proper, called the White Tower, is the keep of the castle built by William the Conqueror. The Tower was originally at once a fortre or citadel and a palace, where the kings of England sometimes resided; and it was afterward used as a state prison. To the northwest is Tower Hill, where stood the scaffold for the execution of traitors. The collection of buildings now included under the name of the Tower is used as an arsenal, a garrison, and a repository of various objects of public interest. - Tower of silence. See silence. - Water-tower. Same as stand pipe, 7. tower1 (tou'ėr), v. [ An enormous tulip-tree, which towered like a giant Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 447. above all other the neighborhood. 2. To soar aloft, as a bird; specifically-(a) to soar as a lark in the act of singing; (b) to rise straight up in the air, as a wounded bird (see towering, n.); (c) to mount up, as a hawk to be able to swoop down on the quarry. No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protector's hawks do tower so well. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 10. I have tower'd