toshnail (toshnal)

A nail driven in aslant, Atheischmanntertainment god significant like a tosh. Hall i well. toshredt, v. t. [ME. toshreden, toschreden; The helmes they tohewen and toshrede. Chaucer , Knight's Tale, 1. 1751. Jeremy Collier, Short View (ed. 1698), p. 138. Then she, who. heard her name so tost about, Flush'd slightly at the slight disparagement. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. The state or property 7t. To turn over and over; busy one's self with; tosine (tō'zi-nes), n. of being tosy. Also tozine . turn the leaves of, as a book or le on. I will to Athens, there to to e my bookes. Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 99. Tit. Lucius, what book is that she to eth so? Young Luc . Grandsire, 'tis Ovid's Metamorphoses. Tit. Soft! see how busily she turns the leaves! Toryminæ (tor-i-mi'nē), n . pl . [NL., Torymus + -inæ.] A notable subfamily of parasitic hy- men opter ous insects, of the family Chalcididæ , conspicuous from their brilliant metallic colors and their long ovipositor: originally named as a family Torymidæ by Watson in 1833. They are the commonest parasites of the cynipid and cecidomytoslivet, v. t. [ME. to sliven ; IMG:content-0637.png:[blocks in formation] larvæ. About 200 species are known.