Tokay (toka)

[So called from Tokay in Upper Hungary.] 1. A rich and heavy wine, somewhat sweet in taste and very aromatic, produced in northern Hungary near the town of Tokay. It bears great age, and is esteemed as a sweet de ert or liqueur-wine.-2. A California wine made up and named in imitation of the above.-3. A variety of grape. - Flaming Tokay, a choice variety of the California Tokay grape. place the (quasi-govern mental) i ue of Harrington tokens. (See Har rington.) During the Commonwealth and under Charles II. (1648-72) the tradesmen and tavern-keepers of nearly all English towns i ued bra and copper tokens, generally inscribed with the name, addre , and trade of the i uer, and with the nominal value of the piece, usually Id., d., ord. These specimens are known to collectors as the "seventeenth-century tokens." The "eigh Obverse. CHANGE NOT teenth-" and "nine Reverse. Kent Token, 1794. - British Museum. (Size of the original.) teenth-century tokens" were i ued by English tradesmen and by other persons between 1787 and 1813. They are larger and of much better workmanship than the earlier tokens, and are generally struck in copper and bronze (2d., 1d., d., etc.), though some specimens were i ued in silver (1s., 6d., etc.). In 1811 silver tokens for 5 shillings, 3 shillings, and 18 pence were i ued by the Bank of England, and were known as the "Bank tokens." See also cut under tavern - token. IMG:content-0527.jpg:[blocks in formation] B. Jonson, Staple of News, v. 2. 7. In Presbyterian churches in Scotland, a voucher, usually of lead or tin, and often stamped with the name of the parish or church, given to duly qualified members previous to the celebration of the Lord's Supper, and returned by the communicant when he takes his place at the table. Cards have now very generally taken the place of these tokens.-8. A measure or quantity of pre -work: in Great Britain and New York, 250 impre ions on one form; in Boston, Ma achusetts, 500 impre ions on one form. The token is not divisible: 200 impre ions or 20 impre ions are rated as one token; 260 impre ions or any exce of that number le than 500 are rated as two tokens. It has been mentioned that 250 sheets or a token per hour, printed on one side only, represent the work of two men at the hand-pre . Encyc . Brit ., XXIII. 707. 9. In weaving. See the quotation. Several small bobbins with a little of the various colours of the weft that may be used that is, when several kinds are employed. They are called tokens , and are raised by the Jacquard hooks attached, so as to remind the weaver which shuttle to use. A. Barlow , Weaving, p. 177. 10. Same as tally1 . [English coal-fields.]11. A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance. [South Wales coal-field.] - By token, by this token, by the same token, phrases introducing a corroborative circumstance, almost equivalent to "this in testimony"; bearing the same marks; hence, a ociated with and calling to remembrance. Roe. Your father died about - let me see Mock . About half a year ago. Roe. Exactly; by the same token , you got drunk at a hunting-match that very day seven-night he was buried. Farquhar , Love and a Bottle, iii. 2. Up in the morning, and had some red herrings to our breakfast, while my boot-heel was a-mending - by the same token , the boy left the hole as big as it was before. Pepys , Diary, Feb. 28, 1660. More by token. See morel. - Nuremberg tokens, an incorrect name for Nuremberg counters.-Plague-token, a small painle excrescence on the skin which was regarded as the first distinctive symptom of the plague; plague-spot. token (toʻkn), v. t. [ [ Token and a ign translate the Latin sign at.] Eno. IMG:content-0528.jpg:[blocks in formation] 2. To betoken; be a symbol of. Well, iv. 2. 63. And by syde Rames ys a fayre Churche of oure Lady, whare oure Lord schewede hym to oure Lady, in thys lykene e, that he tokeneth the Trynyte. Mandeville , Travels, p. 126. 3. To betroth. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] tokeningt (tōk'ning), n. [ v.] 1. A token; a sign; a proof. And Troylus, my clothes every chon Shal blake ben, in tokennynge , herte swete, That I am out of this worlde ygon. IMG:content-0529.jpg:[graphic] Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 779. 2. That which a thing betokens; meaning; interpretation. "Now," quod Merlin, "haue ye herde your a-vision and the tokenynge , and now I moste departe.' Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 417. token le (tō'kn-les), a . [ token + -le .] Without a token.