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& s. [Fr. total, from Low Lat. total is, from Lat. tot us =whole, from the same root as tumid; Sp.total; Ital. totale.] IMG:content-1262.png:[blocks in formation] "This put us at the Board into a to e ."-Pepys: Diary, § 5, p. 7. June 2, 1666. 4. A to -up (q. v.). To win the to : To have something decided in one's favor by the to ing up of a coin. "Hasn't old Brooke won the to with his lucky half. penny?"-Hughes: Tom Brown's School Days , pt. i., ch. v. to -up, s . The throwing up of a coin to decide some point, as a wager or matter of dispute; hence, an even hazard, a matter which may turn out or be decided one way or the other with equal advantage; an even chance. "[It] looked a to -up as to which would arrive home first."- Field , Sept. 4, 1886. to -pot, s. A toper, a drinker, a sot, a drunkard. "Our lustie to -pots and swill-bowls."-P. Holland: Pliny , bk. xxiii., ch. xviii. tos-sel, s . [TASSEL.) ( Prov . ) *to e-ment, *to -ment, subst. [Eng. to ; -ment.] The act of to ing; the state of being to ed. "Sixteen years to ement upon the waves of this troublesome world."-J. B.: Worcester's Apophthegmes, p. 108. B. As substantive : The whole; the whole sum or amount; aggregate. "But I shall sum up these particulars in a total , which is thus expre ed by Saint Chrysostom."- Bp . Taylor : Epis copacy A erted , § 48.