thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac. [Written
also tombak, and tambac.]
Tombester
(Tom"bes*ter) n. [See Tumble, and -ster.] A female dancer. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tombless
(Tomb"less) a. Destitute of a tomb.
Tomboy
(Tom"boy`) n. [Tom (for Thomas, L. Thomas, fr. Gr. )+ boy.] A romping girl; a hoiden. [Colloq.]
J. Fletcher.
Tombstone
(Tomb"stone`) n. A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.
Tomcat
(Tom"cat`) n. [Tom (see Tomboy) + cat.] A male cat, especially when full grown or of large
size.
Tomcod
(Tom"cod`) n. [Tom (see Tomboy) + cod: cf. F. tacaud whiting pout, American Indian tacaud,
literally, plenty fish.] (Zoöl.) (a) A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the Codfish family,
very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the Northen United States; — called also frostfish.
See Illust. under Frostfish. (b) The kingfish. See Kingfish (a). (c) The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c).
Tome
(Tome) n. [F. tome (cf. It., Sp., & Pg. tomo), L. tomus, fr. Gr. a piece cut off, a part of a book,
a volume, akin to to cup, and perhaps to L. tondere to shear, E. tonsure. Cf. Anatomy, Atom, Entomology,
Epitome. ] As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; — usually
applied to a ponderous volume.
Tomes of fable and of dream.
Cowper.
A more childish expedient than that to which he now resorted is not to be found in all the tomes of the
casuists.
Macaulay. Tomelet
(Tome"let) n. All small tome, or volume. [R.]
Tomentose
(To"men*tose`) a. [L. tomentum a stuffing of wool, hair, or feathers: cf. F. tomenteux.] (Bot.
& Zoöl.) Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; a tomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.
Tomentous
(To*men"tous) a. Tomentose.
Tomentum
(||To*men"tum) n.; pl. Tomenta [L. See Tomentose. ] (Bot.) The closely matted hair or
downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.
Tomfool
(Tom"fool`) n. [Tom (see Tomboy) + fool.] A great fool; a trifler.
Tomfoolery
(Tom`fool"er*y) n. Folly; trifling.
Tomium
(||To"mi*um) n.; pl. Tomia (-a) [NL., fr. Gr. te`mnein to cut.] (Zoöl.) The cutting edge of the
bill of a bird.
Tomjohn
(Tom"john`) n. [Probably of East Indian origin.] A kind of open sedan used in Ceylon, carried
by a single pole on men's shoulders.
Tommy
(Tom"my) n.
1. Bread, — generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance. [Slang,
Eng.]
2. A truck, or barter; the exchange of labor for goods, not money. [Slang, Eng.]
