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[TRABEC ULA.] IMG:content-1284.png:[graphic] "They prophane holy baptisme in toying foolishly, for that they ask questions of an infant which cannot answer." - Hooker : Eccles . Polity , bk. v., § 64. [Note.] B. Trans.: To treat foolishly. *toy-er, s . [Eng. toy ; -er.] One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler. "Wanton Cupid, idle toyer ." -J. Harrison. *toy-ful, a . [Eng. toy ; ful ( 1 ).] Full of trifling play or dalliance; sportive, gamesome. "It quick'ned next a toyful ape." Donne: Progre of the Soul. toy-Ish, *toi-esh, a . [Eng. toy ; -ish.] 1. Trifling, wanton. trāçe (1), s . [Fr.=to trace, a footprint, a path, a tract, from tracer =to trace, to follow, to pursue; tra er to delineate, to trace out, from an hypothetical Low Lat. tractio , from Lat. tractus , ра. par. of traho =to drag, to draw; cf. Ital. tracciare = to trace, to devise; Sp. trazar =to plan, to sketch.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The mark left by anything pa ing; a track. "Streaking the ground with sinuous trace." Milton: P. L. , vii. 481. 2. A mark, impre ion, or visible appearance of anything remaining when the thing itself is lost or to longer exists; a visible evidence of something having been; remains, token, vestige, sign. IMG:content-1285.png:[blocks in formation] toy-Ish-ne , s . [English toyish ; -ne .] position to toy or trifle; wantonne ; trifling. "Your society will discredit that toyishne of wanton fancy that plays tricks with words, and frolics with the caprices of frothy imagination."- Glanvill : Scepsis Sci *5. Folly; trifling practice; silly opinion. "The things which so long experience of all ages hath confirmed and made profitable, let us not presume to condemn as follies and toys."-Hooker: Eccles. Polity. *6. Amorous dalliance; play, sport. "So said he, and forbore not glance or toy Of amorous intent." Milton: P. L., ix. 1,034. *7. An old story; a silly tale. "I never may believe These antic fables, nor these fairy toys ." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, v. 3. *8. An idle fancy; an odd conceit. "The very place puts toys of desperation, Without more motive, into every brain." Shakesp.: Hamlet, i. 4. *9. A slight representation. "Shall that which hath always received this construction, be now disguised with a toy of novelty." - Hooker : Eccles. Polity . *10. The same as TOY-MUTCH (q. v.). "Enveloped in a toy , from under the protection of which some of her grey tre es had escaped."- Scott : Old Mortality, ch. xxxix. 11. A toy-dog (q. v.). "In the Toys equal first went to the well-known Wee Flower and a very good black-and-tan called Little Jem." -Field, Jan. 28, 1882. B. As adj .: Made or used as a toy or plaything, not for actual service "Whose career is not unfrequently brought to a close by the bursting of a toy cannon."-London Daily Telegraph. deals in toys. toy-mạn, s. [Eng. toy, and man.] One who "Milliners, toymen , and jewellers came down from London."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. iii. toy-ō, s. [Guianan.] Bot. & Pharm.: An unidentified fragrant plant growing in British Guiana. An infusion and syrup of the leaves and stems are employed as a remedy in chronic coughs. ( Treas . of Bot .) *toy-ous, a . [Eng. toy; -ous.] Trifling. "Against the hare in all Prove toyous ." Warner: Albions England, v. 27. toy-shop, s . [Eng. toy and shop .] A shop where toys are kept for sale. "Fans, silks, ribbands, laces, and gewgaws, lay so thick together, that the heart was nothing else but a toyshop."- Add is on . *toy-some, a. [Eng. toy ; -some.] Disposed to toy or trifle; wanton. "Two or three toysome things were said by my lord."Richardson: Sir C. Grand is on , v. 299.