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 297 Touser. A large coarse apron for kitchen use. {Touzier in Armoric, a table-cloth). Tousing. Working briskly, bustling about. A Towan, Towin, Tewen, Tuan^ or Tuyn. These are Celtic Cornish words for a dune or heap of sand. Many places are called by this name whose situation answers to this etymology, as Towan Perth, Pentuan, &c. Lhuyd (Archeologia p. 220) says it means a hillock, and Gwavas applies the term to a plain, a green, or level place. "The spots, says Polwhele, most favourable to our sheep are those were the sands are scarcely covered with the sod, the green hillocks or levels of our downs in the vicinity of the sea. We call them towans'^ Town of trees. A grove near a dwelling-house. Town-place. The farm yard, a hamlet. Towze, To pull about in a rough manner. Toytish, or Toit. Pert, snappish. Toze. To walk fast. Tozing along. Going along in a hurry. M.A.c. Traade. Physic. "Doctors' traade." Anything nau- seous, i.e. "poor traade." Synonymous with " stuff," " poor stuff," i.e., "poor traade." Traapse. To gad about. "Traapseing about in the mud." Trammel. A fishing net. (Tramels, n^t^. Spenser.) Trawy. A trough, t.c.