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    A whim or fancy is a toy. Halliwell quotes (MS. Harl. 4888), “For these causes ... she ran at random ... as the toy took her.”
   It also means an anecdote or trifling story. Hence Latimer (1550) says, “And here I will tell you a merry toy.”

Tracing of a Fortress (The). The outline of the fortification, that is, the directions in which the masses are laid out.

Tracts for the Times Published at Oxford during the years 1833-1841, and hence called the Oxford Tracts.
   A. i.e. Rev. John Keble, M.A., author of the Christian Year, fellow of Oriel, and formerly Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
   B. Rev. Isaac Williams, Fellow of Trinity; author of The Cathedral, and other Poems.
   C. Rev. E. B. Pusey. D.D., Regius Professor of Hebrew, and Canon of Christ Church.
   D. Rev. John Henry Newman, D.D., Fellow of Oriel, writers of the celebrated Tract No. 90, which was the last.
   E. Rev. Thomas Keble.    F. Sir John Provost, Bart.    G. Rev. R. F. Wilson, of Oriel.

Tractarians Those who concur in the religious views advocated by the Oxford Tracts.

Tracy All the Tracys have the wind in their faces. Those who do wrong will always meet with punishment. William de Traci was the most active of the four knights who slew Thomas à Becket, and for this misdeed all who bore the name were saddled by the Church with this ban: “Wherever by sea or land they go, the wind in their face shall ever blow.” Fuller, with his usual naïveté, says, “So much the better in hot weather, as it will save the need of a fan.”