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2. In or into union; into junction; as, to sew, knit, or fasten two things together; to mix things together.
The king joined humanity and policy together. Bacon. 3. In concert; with mutual coöperation; as, the allies made war upon France together.
Together with, in union with; in company or mixture with; along with.
Take the bad together with the good. Dryden. Toggery
(Tog"ger*y) n. [Cf. Togated.] Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery. [Colloq.]
Toggle
(Tog"gle) n. [Cf. Tug.] [Written also toggel.]
1. (Naut.) A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely
in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of
being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.
2. (Mach.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.
Toggle iron, a harpoon with a pivoted crosspiece in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being
drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned. — Toggle joint, an elbow or knee
joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line,
and made to produce great endwise pressure, when any force is applied to bring them into this position.
Toght
(Toght) a. Taut. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Togider
(To*gid"er To*gid"res) , adv. Together. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Togue
(Togue) n. [From the American Indian name.] (Zoöl.) The namaycush.
Tohew
(To*hew") v. t. [Pref. to- + hew.] To hew in pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Toil
(Toil) n. [F. toiles, pl., toils, nets, fr. toile cloth, canvas, spider web, fr. L. tela any woven stuff, a
web, fr. texere to weave. See Text, and cf. Toilet.] A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread
for taking prey; — usually in the plural.
As a Numidian lion, when first caught,
Endures the toil that holds him. Denham.
Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found. Dryden. Toil
(Toil), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toiled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Toiling.] [OE. toilen to pull about, to toil; of
uncertain origin; cf. OD. teulen, tuylen, to labor, till, or OF. tooillier, toailler, to wash, rub (cf. Towel); or
perhaps ultimately from the same root as E. tug.] To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or
mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work.
Toil
(Toil), v. t.
1. To weary; to overlabor. [Obs.] "Toiled with works of war." Shak.
2. To labor; to work; — often with out. [R.]
Places well toiled and husbanded. Holland.
[I] toiled out my uncouth passage. Milton.
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