toddalia

[From kaka todd ali, the Malabar name of Toddalia aculeata.] Bot.: A genus of Xanthoxylacese. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate, with pellucid dots; flowers small, unisexual, in terminal panicles; fruit a globular berry. Natives of tropical Asia and Africa. dali a aculeata is a large, scandent prickly shrub from the Indian mountains. The people of Coromandel eat the leaves raw and pickle the ripe berries. Both have a pungent taste. Its bark is used in remittent fever. A tincture or infusion of it is an aromatic tonic. The root bark is used in Madras as a dye-stuff. ( Calcutta Exhib. Report.) *todde, s . [TOD, s.] tod-dle, s. [TODDLE, v.] A little, toddling walk; a saunter. and the kittul, or Caryota urens. When newly drawn from the tree the liquor is clear and in taste resembles malt. In a very short time it becomes turbid, whitish, and sub-acid, quickly running into the various stages of fermentation, acquiring an intoxicating quality, still retaining the name of toddy. It is also distilled into arrack, made into vinegar, and throughout all eastern countries is employed as yeast, as it begins to ferment in a few hours after it is drawn. 2. A mixture of spirit and water sweetened; as, whisky toddy . Strictly speaking, toddy differs from grog in being always made with boiling water, while grog is made with cold water, but the latter word is often used in the same sense as toddy. "First count 's for that with divers jugs, To wit, twelve pots, twelve cups, twelve mugs, Of certain vulgar drink, called toddy , Said Gull did sluice said Gudgeon's body." Anstey: Pleaders's Guide, lect. 7. toddy-bird, 8. [TODDY-SHRIKE.] toddy-blo om, s. An inflorescence on the nose, caused by indulgence in alcohol; a rum-bud. toddy-cat, s. Zool .: Paradox urus typus , common throughout the greater part of India and Ceylon, extending through Burmah and the Malayan peninsula to the islands. It is about forty-five inches long, of which the tail occupies about twenty; color brownish black, with some dingy yellowish stripes on each side. (See extract.) "It is very abundant in the Carnatic and Malabar coast, where it is popularly called the Toddy - cat , in consequence of its supposed fondne for the juice of the palm, a fact which appears of general acceptation both in India and Ceylon (where it is called the Palm-cat), and which appears to have some foundation."- Jerdon : Mam mals of India (ed. 1874), p. 127. toddy-drawer, s. A person who draws and sells toddy, and makes and sells other spirituous liquors. (Balfour: Cyclop. India.)