tount

An old spelling of town. to up (töp), n. [Malay.] A three-masted Malay lugger, from 50 to 60 feet long, and from 10 to 12 feet wide and about as deep. It sails well, and carries a large cargo. toupee (tö-pe'), n. [ Remember how often you have been stripped, and kicked out of doors, your wages all taken up beforehand, and spent in translated red-heeled shoes, second-hand toupees, and repaired laced ruffles. Swift , Advice to Servants (Footman). The coiffures were equally diversified, consisting of tye tops, crape cushions, to upées , sustained and enriched with bra and gilt clasps, feathers, and flowers. S. Judd , Margaret, i. 10. The hauberkes of towgh mayle that the speres splyndred Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 485. in peces. He's well enough; he has a travell'd body, And, though he be old, he 's tough and will endure well. Fletcher, Pilgrim, v. 1. 3. Not easily separated; tenacious; stiff; ropy; viscous: as, a tough clay; tough phlegm. A cart that is overladen, going up a hill, draweth the horses back, and in a tough mire maketh them stand still. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 211. 4. Not easily influenced; unyielding; stubborn; hardened; incorrigible. IMG:content-0654.png:[blocks in formation] "My Lord," said the King, "here's a rather tough job." Barham, In golds by Legends, II. 69. 6. Severe; violent: as, a tough rebuke or tirade; a tough storm. [Colloq.] - Mild and tough, a phrase applied in some localities to fine brick-clay which has been mellowed or ripened by exposure. When fresh the clay is said to be short and rough. - To make it tought, to take pains; also, to make a difficulty about a thing; treat it as of great importance. Tough pitch. See poling, 2, and toughening. II. n. A rough; a bully; an incorrigibly vicious fellow; a bad character. [Colloq., U. S.] And then the whole appearance of the young tough changed, and the terror and horror that had showed on his face turned to one of low sharpne and evil cunning. Scribner's Mag., VIII. 692. See Pimelea . tough bark (tuf'bärk), n. see toupee.] 1. Same as toupee. - 2. The crested or tufted titmouse, Parus or Lophophanes bi color: more fully fully called toupet tit. (See cut under titmouse.) The term is an old book name, never in general use. T. Pennant. tour1t, n. A Middle English form of tower. tour2 (tör), n. [Formerly also tower, tow'r; To solve the tow'rs by heavenly bodies made. Sir R. Black more , Creation, ii. 2. A turn, course, or shift, as of duty or work: originally a military use. IMG:content-0655.png:[blocks in formation] The machine-tenders, of whom there are two to each Fourdrinier, work in tours or shifts twelve hours each. Harper's Mag ., LXXV. 129. 3. A turn round some place; a going round from place to place; a continued ramble or excursion; a short journey: as, a wedding tour. I must take a tour among the shops. Vanbrugh, Confederacy, ii. 1. might Those who would make a curious journey, make a tour which I believe has not been done by any travellers, and that is to go along the eastern coast to Tarento. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 207, note. In a subsequent tour of observation, I encountered another of these relics of a "foregone world" locked up in the heart of the city. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 291. Bacon, however, made a tour through several provinces, and appears to have pa ed some time at Poitiers. Macaulay, Lord Bacon. 4t. A turn, drive, or carriage promenade in a park or other place of fashionable resort for driving. The sweetne of the Park is at Eleven, when the BeauMonde make their Tour there. Mrs. Cent livre, The Ba et Table, i. 1. Lucinda tells Sir Toby Doubtful: "You'll at least keep Six Horses, Sir Toby, for I wou'd not make a Tour in High Park with le for the World; for me thinks a pair looks like a Hackney." J. Ashton , Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 173. 51. A fashionable drive, or resort for driving, as that in Hyde Park, London. Took up my wife and Deb., and to the Park, where, be the Pepys, Diary, March 31, 1668. ing in a hackney, and they undre ed, was ashamed to go 6t. Turn; cast; drift. [Rare.] The whole tour of the pa age is this: a man given to superstition can have no security, day or night, waking or sleeping. Bentley, Free-thinking, § 18. Knight's tour. See knight . The grand tour, a journey through France and Switzerland to Italy, etc., formerly considered e ential for British young men of good family, as the finishing part of their education. = Syn. 3. Trip, Excursion , etc. See journey . tour2 (tör), v. [ Each hundred you take here is as good as two or three hundred in New found Land; so that halfe the labour in hooking, splitting, and touring is saued. Capt. John Smith, Works, II. 188. 2. To make a tour; travel about. He was touring about as usual, for he was as restle as a hyena. De Quincey, Murder as One of the Fine Arts. It is like saying that a New Zealander touring in the British Isles sees that we are an aboriginal population. A. Bain, Emotions and Will, p. 517. II. trans. To make a tour or circuit of: as, to tour an island. [Rare.] Touraco (tö'ra-kō), n. [NL. (Lacépède, 1801).] Same as Turacus . touracou, tourakoo (töʻra-kö), n. turakoo. Same as