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   teddy boys
         n 1: a British youth subculture that first appeared in the
               1950s; mainly from unskilled backgrounds, they adopted a
               pseudo-Edwardian dress code and rock'n'roll music;
               proletarian and xenophobic, they were involved in race
               riots in the United Kingdom

English Dictionary: tote bag by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toadfish
n
  1. bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth
    Synonym(s): toadfish, Opsanus tau
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toothpaste
n
  1. a dentifrice in the form of a paste
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toothpick
n
  1. pick consisting of a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tote bag
n
  1. a capacious bag or basket [syn: carryall, holdall, tote, tote bag]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tapis \Ta"pis\, n. [F. See {Tapestry}.]
      Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table.
  
      {On}, [or] {Upon}, {the tapis}, on the table, or under
            consideration; as, to lay a motion in Parliament on the
            tapis.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Advise \Ad*vise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Advised}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Advising}.] [OE. avisen to perceive, consider, inform, F.
      aviser, fr. LL. advisare. advisare; ad + visare, fr. L.
      videre, visum, to see. See {Advice}, and cf. {Avise}.]
      1. To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or
            expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. [bd]I shall
            no more advise thee.[b8] --Milton.
  
      2. To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of
            before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the
            risk.
  
      {To advise one's self}, to bethink one's self; to take
            counsel with one's self; to reflect; to consider. [Obs.]
  
                     Bid thy master well advise himself.   --Shak.
  
      Syn: To counsel; admonish; apprise; acquaint.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dip \Dip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dipped}or {Dipt} ([?]); p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Dipping}.] [OE. dippen, duppen, AS. dyppan; akin to
      Dan. dyppe, Sw. doppa, and to AS. d[?]pan to baptize, OS.
      d[?]pian, D. doopen, G. taufen, Sw. d[94]pa, Goth. daupjan,
      Lith. dubus deep, hollow, OSlav. dupl[?] hollow, and to E.
      dive. Cf. {Deep}, {Dive}.]
      1. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into
            a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
  
                     The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. --Lev.
                                                                              iv. 6.
  
                     [Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny
                     deep.                                                --Pope.
  
                     While the prime swallow dips his wing. --Tennyson.
  
      2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. --Book of
            Common Prayer. Fuller.
  
      3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic]
  
                     A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er. --Milton.
  
      4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
  
                     He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      5. To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other
            receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often
            with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out
            water.
  
      6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.]
  
                     Live on the use and never dip thy lands. --Dryden.
  
      {Dipped candle}, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick
            in melted tallow.
  
      {To dip snuff}, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and
            teeth. [Southern U. S.]
  
      {To dip the colors} (Naut.), to lower the colors and return
            them to place; -- a form of naval salute.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Backbone \Back"bone"\, n. [2d back,n.+ bone. ]
      1. The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives
            firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal
            column.
  
      2. Anything like, or serving the purpose of, a backbone.
  
                     The lofty mountains on the north side compose the
                     granitic axis, or backbone of the country. --Darwin.
  
                     We have now come to the backbone of our subject.
                                                                              --Earle.
  
      3. Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.
  
                     Shelley's thought never had any backbone. --Shairp.
  
      {To the backbone}, through and through; thoroughly; entirely.
            [bd]Staunch to the backbone.[b8] --Lord Lytton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   To \To\ ([?], emphatic or alone, [?], obscure or unemphatic),
      prep. [AS. t[d3]; akin to OS. & OFries. t[d3], D. toe, G. zu,
      OHG. zuo, zua, z[d3], Russ. do, Ir. & Gael. do, OL. -do, -du,
      as in endo, indu, in, Gr. [?], as in [?] homeward. [fb]200.
      Cf. {Too}, {Tatoo} a beat of drums.]
      1. The preposition to primarily indicates approach and
            arrival, motion made in the direction of a place or thing
            and attaining it, access; and also, motion or tendency
            without arrival; movement toward; -- opposed to {from}.
            [bd]To Canterbury they wend.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
                     Stay with us, go not to Wittenberg.   --Shak.
  
                     So to the sylvan lodge They came, that like Pomona's
                     arbor smiled.                                    --Milton.
  
                     I'll to him again, . . . He'll tell me all his
                     purpose. She stretched her arms to heaven. --Dryden.
  
      2. Hence, it indicates motion, course, or tendency toward a
            time, a state or condition, an aim, or anything capable of
            being regarded as a limit to a tendency, movement, or
            action; as, he is going to a trade; he is rising to wealth
            and honor.
  
      Note: Formerly, by omission of the verb denoting motion, to
               sometimes followed a form of be, with the sense of at,
               or in. [bd]When the sun was [gone or declined] to
               rest.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      3. In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of
            application, to connects transitive verbs with their
            remoter or indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and
            neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits
            their action. Its sphere verges upon that of for, but it
            contains less the idea of design or appropriation; as,
            these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us
            keep this seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the
            taste; an event painful to the mind; duty to God and to
            our parents; a dislike to spirituous liquor.
  
                     Marks and points out each man of us to slaughter.
                                                                              --B. Jonson.
  
                     Whilst they, distilled Almost to jelly with the act
                     of fear, Stand dumb and speak not to him. --Shak.
  
                     Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
                     and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance
                     patience; and to patience godliness; and to
                     godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly
                     kindness charity.                              --2 Pet. i.
                                                                              5,6,7.
  
                     I have a king's oath to the contrary. --Shak.
  
                     Numbers were crowded to death.            --Clarendon.
  
                     Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
                     Go, buckle to the law.                        --Dryden.
  
      4. As sign of the infinitive, to had originally the use of
            last defined, governing the infinitive as a verbal noun,
            and connecting it as indirect object with a preceding verb
            or adjective; thus, ready to go, i.e., ready unto going;
            good to eat, i.e., good for eating; I do my utmost to lead
            my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost
            constant prefix to the infinitive, even in situations
            where it has no prepositional meaning, as where the
            infinitive is direct object or subject; thus, I love to
            learn, i.e., I love learning; to die for one's country is
            noble, i.e., the dying for one's country. Where the
            infinitive denotes the design or purpose, good usage
            formerly allowed the prefixing of for to the to; as, what
            went ye out for see? (--Matt. xi. 8).
  
                     Then longen folk to go on pilgrimages, And palmers
                     for to seeken strange stranders.         --Chaucer.
  
      Note: Such usage is now obsolete or illiterate. In colloquial
               usage, to often stands for, and supplies, an infinitive
               already mentioned; thus, he commands me to go with him,
               but I do not wish to.
  
      5. In many phrases, and in connection with many other words,
            to has a pregnant meaning, or is used elliptically. Thus,
            it denotes or implies:
            (a) Extent; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as
                  far as; as, they met us to the number of three
                  hundred.
  
                           We ready are to try our fortunes To the last
                           man.                                             --Shak.
  
                           Few of the Esquimaux can count to ten. --Quant.
                                                                              Rev.
            (b) Effect; end; consequence; as, the prince was flattered
                  to his ruin; he engaged in a war to his cost; violent
                  factions exist to the prejudice of the state.
            (c) Apposition; connection; antithesis; opposition; as,
                  they engaged hand to hand.
  
                           Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
                           face to face.                              --1 Cor. xiii.
                                                                              12.
            (d) Accord; adaptation; as, an occupation to his taste;
                  she has a husband to her mind.
  
                           He to God's image, she to his was made.
                                                                              --Dryden.
            (e) Comparison; as, three is to nine as nine is to
                  twenty-seven; it is ten to one that you will offend
                  him.
  
                           All that they did was piety to this. --B.
                                                                              Jonson.
            (f) Addition; union; accumulation.
  
                           Wisdom he has, and to his wisdom, courage.
                                                                              --Denham.
            (g) Accompaniment; as, she sang to his guitar; they danced
                  to the music of a piano.
  
                           Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian
                           mood Of flutes and soft recorders. --Milton.
            (h) Character; condition of being; purpose subserved or
                  office filled. [In this sense archaic] [bd]I have a
                  king here to my flatterer.[b8] --Shak.
  
                           Made his masters and others . . . to consider
                           him to a little wonder.               --Walton.
  
      Note: To in to-day, to-night, and to-morrow has the sense or
               force of for or on; for, or on, (this) day, for, or on,
               (this) night, for, or on, (the) morrow. To-day,
               to-night, to-morrow may be considered as compounds, and
               usually as adverbs; but they are sometimes used as
               nouns; as, to-day is ours.
  
                        To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow; Creeps
                        in this petty pace from day to day. --Shak.
  
      {To and again}, to and fro. [R.]
  
      {To and fro}, forward and back. In this phrase, to is
            adverbial.
  
                     There was great showing both to and fro. --Chaucer.
  
      {To-and-fro}, a pacing backward and forward; as, to commence
            a to-and-fro. --Tennyson.
  
      {To the face}, in front of; in behind; hence, in the presence
            of.
  
      {To wit}, to know; namely. See {Wit}, v. i.
  
      Note: To, without an object expressed, is used adverbially;
               as, put to the door, i. e., put the door to its frame,
               close it; and in the nautical expressions, to heave to,
               to come to, meaning to a certain position. To, like on,
               is sometimes used as a command, forward, set to.
               [bd]To, Achilles! to, Ajax! to![b8] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toadfish \Toad"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) Any marine fish of the genus {Batrachus}, having a large,
            thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance
            to a toad. The American species ({Batrachus tau}) is very
            common in shallow water. Called also {oyster fish}, and
            {sapo}.
      (b) The angler.
      (c) A swellfish.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Angler \An"gler\, n.
      1. One who angles.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A fish ({Lophius piscatorius}), of Europe and
            America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with
            the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are
            said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also
            {fishing frog}, {frogfish}, {toadfish}, {goosefish},
            {allmouth}, {monkfish}, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toadfish \Toad"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) Any marine fish of the genus {Batrachus}, having a large,
            thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance
            to a toad. The American species ({Batrachus tau}) is very
            common in shallow water. Called also {oyster fish}, and
            {sapo}.
      (b) The angler.
      (c) A swellfish.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Angler \An"gler\, n.
      1. One who angles.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A fish ({Lophius piscatorius}), of Europe and
            America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with
            the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are
            said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also
            {fishing frog}, {frogfish}, {toadfish}, {goosefish},
            {allmouth}, {monkfish}, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toothback \Tooth"back`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      Any notodontian.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toothpick \Tooth"pick`\, n.
      A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances
      lodged between them.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toothpicker \Tooth"pick`er\, n.
      A toothpick. [Obs.] --Shak.
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