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 96 HAMPSHIRE QL0SSAB7. Tongne-bang [tung-bang], v, to scold.- Tooly [too'li], adj, tender, sickly ; as, * a tooly man or woman.' — Grose; Warner; F. M. Top-up [top-up], V. to finish ; to pat the finishing stroke to. Ex. • We'll" tc^'Up the rick afore night.' — N. H. Torret [tornit], sb, a tuft of a kind of sedge, the Carex cespitosa. * I mean that sort which, rising into tall hassocks, is called by the foresters torrets ; a corruption, I suppose, of turret&' — White's Nat, Hist, of Selhome, Letter VHI. Tot [tot], sb, a bush ; a tuft of grass. — Cooper. T'other-day [tudhmr-dai], sb. (not indefinite, but) the day before yesterday. — Cooper. In old English the other means the second, Totty-lajld [tot-i-land], sb, marsh land where hassocks or tufts of grass grow. — ^Wise (note on Cooper). See Tot. Touohen-leaves [tuch*n-leevz], sb, pi. Hypericum Androscsmum, ' It he's as sweet as the toucJien-leaves in the forest.' — The Cotisins, J. Wise. See also New Forest^ pp. 254, 255. Evidently a corruption of tutsan {fcute aaine), — J. B. To-year [tu-yur], adv. this year ; as in Chaucer. — W. See Tyear. Toys [toiz], sb. pi. properly a boy's books, paper, pens, &c., together with the cupboard which held them. In process of time the word came to mean the latter only. But the phrase * toy-Ume ' shows the original meaning, viz. when, the toys were in use. — ^Adams' Wyke- hamicay p. 437. Trade [traid], sb. household goods, lumber ; also work, instruments of work.— Cooper. Tradesman [trai'dzmun], sb. an artificer ; a mechanic. Used to dis- tinguish the carpenters, smiths, &c, in an establishment or parish from the agricultural labourer& Ex. 'Of course tradesmen gets higher wages than we.' — N. H. Trail, the [trail], the flowers of Queretis Robur, — J. B. Trammel [tram*l], sb, a hook to hang a boiler on. — J. Transmogrify [transmog'rifei], v. to transform, to metamorphose. — Cooper. Com. Trapesing-abont [trap-uzing-ubout], i^ar^. walking a great distance for little profit or purpose. — N. H. Triok-and-tie [trik-und-tei], phr. equal to each other. — K H. Trig [trig], adj. firm, even. — Lisle. Trig [trig], t;. (1) To place a stone behind a wheel, to prevent a carnage from slipping. — Cooper. (2) To prop up. — if. Evidently from the preceding adjective, i, e. to make firm. Trip [trip], sb. (!) A litter of pigs ; when a sow farrows or has a litter, sbe is saia to have a trip. — F. M. (2) A brood, as ' a trip of chicken, geese,' &c — ^W.