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Show ing with metal and heat, that they quickly tak 18. A hint; {light notice given fire, and become touchawood To make white powder The king your mafter knows their difpofitio very well5 a fmall zouch will put him in mind o them 19. A cant word for a flight effay willows s beft; fpunk might make it ruffet Bacon To 'UCHABLE. adj. [from touch. Tangi To UCH-HOLE, 7. /. [touch and hole.] Th hole through which the fire is conveye to the powder in the gun TOUGH. adj. [<oh, Saxon. 1. Yielding to flexure or extenfion without frature: not brittle Pee Of bodies fome are fragile, and fome are tough and not fragile Bacon's Natural Hiftory T'he bow he drew And almoft join'd the horns of the zugh eugh Dryden Fate with nature's law woul And when {o tough a frame the could not bend Exceeded her commiffion to befriend O fides, you are too zoxgh Will you yet hold to difcipline, th For her lov'd nurfling, ftrung with nerves of wire 4. Vifcous ; clammy; ropy ; tenacious Zo To"UGHEN. @. z. [from zough. T grow tough Shatkefpeare's Henry V Hops oft the kiln lay three weeks to cool, giv and toughen, elfe they will break to powder Fhe heavens and the earth remained in th fame fate in which they were created, as touchin their fubftance, though there was afterwards adde multiplicity of perfection in refpect of beauty Raleigh's Hiffory of the World 7o To'UGHEN Pathe ner fouchingly the poe Garth I confefs me knit to thy deferving with cable of perdurable toughnefs Shakefpeare's Othello TOQUPE'T.-n.[. [Fr.] A curl; an artificial Jock of hair pierre de toucke, French. Remembe ruffles 1. Stone by which metals. are examined Chilon would fay, that gold was tried with th souckftone, and men with gold. Bacon's Apophthegims If he intends to deal clearly, why does he mak the touchffone faulty, and the ftandard uncertain TOUR Collier In both thefe {enfe In orde o I plac'd y and with b bes inlaid | T'o folve the rours by heaves 1ly bod es made Rotten wood ufed to catch the fire firuc from the flint [fro the noun, TO'URNIQUET. ». /. [French.] Abandage ufed in amputations, ftraitened o relaxed by the turn of a handle If the orifice does not readily appear, loofen th tourniguet, and the effufion of blood will dire& yo to it Sharp 7o Touse. @. a. [probably of the fam original with zaw, teafe, tofe.] To pull to tear ; to haul ; to drag : whence foz Jer, or foawzer, the name of a maftiff As a bear whom angry curs have touz'd Having off thak'd them and efcap'd their hands Becomes more fell, and all that him with@and Treads dowmr and overthrows Spenfer She tofies, tumbles, ftrikes, turns, roufes, fpurns and fprauls Cafting with furious limbs her holders to the walls Drayton Take him hence; to th' rack with him: we'l fyzoie you joint by joint, but we will know hi purpofe Shake[peare To towze fuch things as flutter To honeft Bounce is bread and butter Swifte Tow. n. /. [cop, Saxon.] Flax or hem beaten and combed into a filamentou {ubftance Tow twifted round the handle of an inftrumen makes it eafier to be held Sharp 70 Tow w. a. [teon zeohan, Saxon, t lead ; #oghen, old Dutch.] To draw b a rope, particularly through the water Thou knew'ft too wel My heart was to thy rudder ty'd by th' firing Fir{t Ptolemy his fcheme celeftial wrought And of machines a wild Orbs centrick and ecce Cycles and epi cles, folid fp [touch and wood. clean.sh data import.tsv out README Well could he tourney, and in lifts debate Spenfer French. 3. In Milton it is probably tower tion ; high flight for encounter An elfin born of noble ftate repaire Saift 1t is rather French than Englifh fimpl 7o TO'URNEY. @. # To tilt in the lifts roving journey 2. T'arn; revolution The work the tonchftone of the nature is And by their operations things are known. Dawies Money f{erves for the touckfione of common honefty L'Efirange Time iz the fureft judge of truth: I am no vain enough to think I hiave left no faults in this which that tauchffone will not difcover Dryden's Spanifb Friar an Were it permitted, he'd make the zour of th whole fyftem of the fun Arbuthnot and Pope's Martinus Scriblerus Heoke A race of refolute flout treesthey are, fo abound toupee i With cruel zournament the {quadrons join Where cattle paftur'd late, now fcatter'd lie With carcafles, and arms, th' infangain'd field Milton And thou fhouldft zzv me after 1 made the zour of all the king's palaces. Addif thould ufe it as a tauckfione to try the orders of th n. fecond-han . /. [tour 1. Ramble Is not this their rule of fuch fufficiency, that w To'vcuwoon Arbuthnot on Diet ufe fhock of battle To make rough 3. Firmnefs againft injury To'vcuMENOT, 7 [ [ cucumis agrefis Lat.] : An herb Ainfworth To'ucastoNe. n. [ [touch and fone 2. Milto Mortimer's Hufbandry In the firft ftage the vifcofity or toughnefs of th fluids fhould be taken off by diluents chariots wherein challengers mal At tilts and tournaments obtain'd the prize But found no favou in his lady's eyes Dryden 2. Vifeofity; tenacity; clamminefs; glutinoufnefs To'ucuiNGLy. adv. [from touch.] Wit feeling emotion ; in a pathetick man th Temple's Mifeellay He liv'd with all the pomp he could défvifefm To make an induration with foughnefs, and lef fragility, decott bodies in water for. three days but they muft be fuch into which the water wil not enter Bacon's Natural Hiftory A well-temper'd fword is bent at will But keeps the native toughnefs of the fteel. Dryden ted thereof Hayward Socrates chofe rather to die, than renounce o conceal his judgment touching the unity of th Godhead South church @.a ar their entry B,m Whence came all thofe jufts, tiltings anq twr naments, fo much in ufe in thefe parts To vcHuNESS. 7 [, [from zough. 1. Not brittlenefs; flexibility Touching the debt, he took himfelf to be acquit 2. Any teft or criterion the Tough to the laft, and with no toil to tire, Dryden Fouebing our perfon, feek we no revenge But we cur kingdom's fafety"muft fo tender Whofe ruin you three fought, that to her law ho Shakefpeare A body made of brafs the crone demand church hath authority to make canons and deerees even as we read in the apoftles times it did. Hooker This laft fable fhow argues in love affairs Dar For jufts, tourneys, and barriers, the glori:s":;,; Dryden 3. Not eafily injured or broken there feems to be no ufe. Zouching i now obfolete, though more concife tha the mode of {peech now adopted tick ; affeting ; moving frive To fhéw plain-dealing once an age may thrive often the particle as before it, of whic adj. [from touch. Of tilts and tournaments Provide them horfe and armou for defence z. Stift; not eafily flexible To'ucrING. prep. [This word is originally a participle of zoxch. With re{peét, regard, or relation to. It ha To'ucHING take fire i They might, under the pretenc Arbutbnot's Hiftory of Sobn Bull My friends refented it as a motion not guide with fuch difcretion as the zouchinefs of thofe time required King Charles We do deliver you irritable 5 1irafcible ; apt t A low word counter Youarefo touchy, and take things fo hotly, I a ~ fure there muft be fome miftake in this Bacon's Natural Hiftory Touching things which belon Peevith [fro adj TO'URNAMENT. ) 2./ [zournamentum, low ¥ To UrRNEY Latin. 1. Tilt; Gufts military fport; mock e Collier on Pride In a piece of ordnance, if you fpeak in the touchhole, and another lay his ear to the mouth of th piece, the found is far better heard than in th TovcHINESS. 7. /. [from touchy. vithnefs; irafcibility prepared Browne or towchwoo You are upon a touchy poimt, and therefore trea fo nice a fubject with proportionable caution that may be touched open air Howel's Vocal Foreft the powder of rotte touch. TovcHY Print my preface in fuch a form as, in th bookfellers phrafe, will make a fixpenny tonch Swwift ble TO T o Blackmore eleva b The bird yi,k' Jl\.«, ftoop'd f'{r‘,m his airy tour Tvio birds of gayeft plume before him drove Milton Shakefpeare's Antony and Cleopatra The feamen zowed, and I fhoved, till we arrived I‘ Sawifts OWA'RD. Towa RDs. }P"'P' [zopanb, Saxon. 1. In a direion to He fet his face foward the wildernefs Numbersy XX1ve 1 2. With local tendency to The currents driv o Toww'rds the retreating fea their furious tide. M 3. Nea to: as, the danger now comes towards him 4. With refpe to ; touching ; regarding We brought them to as great peacc bedtwi;! themfelves, as love rawards us for having mr:g 1a1%) peace Repen |