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- English Word Tomtit Definition A titmouse, esp. the blue titmouse.
- English Word Tomtit Definition The wren.
- English Word Ton Definition pl. of Toe.
- English Word Ton Definition The common tunny, or house mackerel.
- English Word Ton Definition The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.
- English Word Ton Definition A measure of weight or quantity.
- English Word Ton Definition The weight of twenty hundredweight.
- English Word Ton Definition Forty cubic feet of space, being the unit of measurement of the burden, or carrying capacity, of a vessel; as a vessel of 300 tons burden.
- English Word Ton Definition A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc.
- English Word Tonality Definition The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole.
- English Word Tonca bean Definition See Tonka bean.
- English Word Toncanet Definition A small toucan.
- English Word Tone Definition Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
- English Word Tone Definition Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
- English Word Tone Definition A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.
- English Word Tone Definition A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.
- English Word Tone Definition The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.
- English Word Tone Definition The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.
- English Word Tone Definition A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.
- English Word Tone Definition That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.