English English Dictionary
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of Toast
a. & n. from Toast, v.
A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
The handle of a joiner's plane.
An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.
The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.
Smoking tobacco.
A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.
A smoker of tobacco.
The lant, or sand eel.
A stout twilled silk used for dresses.
A book of the Apocrypha.
A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow.
To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.
of Toboggan
Alt. of Tobogganist
of Toboggan
One who practices tobogganing.
An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio.
Dowry brought by a bride to her husband.