The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.
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  • TOdi,
    lytell byrdes, I suppose it be the byrde, whyche is callyd a tytmous.
  • Toga,
    the common garmente of men and women, callyd a gowne. And bycause the Romaynes specially dydde weare that garment in the tyme of peace, toga was ta∣ken for peace, as arma was for warre.
  • Toga praetexta,
    a garment whiche the Ro∣mains dyd weare afore that they were of the age of .xvi. yeres. Afterwarde it was worne of them, whiche were in auctoritie.
  • Toga polymita,
    a garment made with thre∣des of sondrye coloures, as motleye or bauldekyn.
  • Togata Comoedia,
    a comedye or enterlude, wherein the maners of the Romaynes, were expressed.
  • Togata Gallia,
    the countrey nowe callydde Lumbardy.
  • Toga candida,
    was a garment, whiche they dyd weare, that sued for any great office in the citie of Rome.
  • Togari,
    apparayled in gownes.
  • Togatus,
    he that weareth a gowne.
  • Tolerantia,
    sufferance.
  • Toleranter,
    paciently.
  • Tolles,
    a waxynge kernell.
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    Tolleno, nonis,
    that wherein any thynge is put or layde to be drawen vp.* sometyme a buckette wherwith water is drawen vp.
  • Tollenon,
    an engyne to drawe vppe water, whiche hath a great poise at the one ende
  • Tolero, rare,
    to suffre, to endure, to beare, to lyue poorely, or nyghly.
  • Tolerare uitam,
    to lyue, or to maynteyne his lyfe.
  • Tolerabilis, rabile,
    that whiche maye suffre or beare.
  • Tollo, sustuli, seu tetuli, tollere,
    to lyfte vppe, or sette vppe.
  • Tollere clamorem,
    to crie oute.
  • Tollere cristas,
    to sette vp the crest, applyed to them that be proude or arrogante, & do stretche vp their browes with a dysdayn∣full countenaunce.
  • Tolle digitum,
    hold vp thy fynger, confesse thy selfe vanquyshed.
  • Tollere gradum,
    to sette forthe, or to mar∣che forthe.
  • Tollere,
    to take away. Tolle hanc patinam,* take away this dyshe.
  • Tollere,
    to haue a chylde by a woman.
  • Tollere,
    to nouryshe. Verum quod erit natū,*ollito, What soo euer is borne, putte it to nouryshynge.
  • Tollere,
    to deferre or prolonge,*Omnes tol∣lo ex hoc die in alium diem, I put them all of from one day to an other.
  • Tollere minas,
    to thretten or menace.
  • Tolutarius, & tolutaris equus,
    an aumblynge horse.
  • Tolutiloquentia,
    a swyfte or faste speche.
  • Tolutim,
    an amblynge pace.
  • Tolutim loqui,
    to speake faste oone worde after an nother.
  • Tomaculae, Tomacula, & tomacla,
    a certayn sorte of pouddynges, proprelye swynes pouddynges.
  • Tomentum,
    floxe, which is shorne of wollen cloth. also lockes clypped of white wolle.
  • Tomices,
    hempen cordes, also colers, whi∣che are put on carthorses, for hurtynge of their neckes.
  • Tomos,
    a pece of a boke, or a warke vnper∣perfyte. Alsoo a citie in the countraye of Ponthus.
  • Tomyris,
    was a noble queene of Massage∣tis in Scithia, agaynste whom whan Cirus the great kynge of Persia came, and hadde slayne her sonne, she pytchynge a fylde a∣gaynste hym, and of purpose hauing great plentie of vytayles in her pauyllyone, af∣ter a lyttell skyrmyshe she and her host fled. And whan Cirus had a whyle folowed the chace, and blowen to the retraicte, he came to her campe, and fyndynge greate plentie of vytayle, he and his people dyd so moche Page  [unnumbered] fyll theym selfee therwith, that fallynge a∣slepe, they were all taken by the quene, and slayne, and she causynge a great vessell to be fylled with the bloudde of Cirus, and the Persyans, dyd caste his heed therinto, say∣inge, Bloode thou haste thyrsted, and nowe drynke therof thy fylle.
  • Tonarion,
    a certayne shaulme with a softe sounde, on the whiche in the old time some oratours vsed to haue, to playe by theym, whan they pleaded, that by the tunes of the shalme, the oratour mought moderate and order his pronunciation.
  • Tondeo, totondi, tondere,
    to clyp or sheare.
  • Tonesco, tonui, tonescere,
    to thunder.
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    Tonimus, for tonamus.
  • Tonitrus, & tonitru, & tonitruum,
    thunder.
  • Tonitruo, are,
    to thunder.
  • Tonitus,
    thunder.
  • Tono, nare,
    to thunder, to make a greatte sounde or noyse, to speake loude.
  • Tonsae,
    shepe, which be shorne or clypped. also ores of botes or shyppes.
  • Tonsilis, le,
    that which is shorne or clipped.
  • Tonsilla,
    a poste, hauynge the one ende ar∣med with yron, whiche is pitched into the erth, to thende that shippes or botes may be tyed therat.
  • Tonsillae plurali,
    a dysese within the chekes and mouthe lyke to great kernels.
  • Tonsi montes,
    hilles without woddes.
  • Tonsor, et tonstrix, tricis,
    he or she whyche clyppeth or sheareth.
  • Tonsorius, ria, rium,
    pertaynynge to clyp∣pynge.
  • Tonstrix, tricis,
    a woman barbar.
  • Tonstricula,
    idem.
  • Tonstrina,
    a place where they do vse to clip or a barbers shoppe.
  • Tonsus, a, um,
    shorne or clypped.
  • Tonus,
    a tune or accent. alsoo the space or distance, whiche is betwene the erthe and the moone.
  • Toparcha,
    he that hathe the gouernaunce and charge of one onely countrey.
  • Toparchia,
    the rule of one countray.
  • Topazion, & topazius,
    a preciouse stone of the colour of golde.
  • Tophus,
    a kynde of stone, whiche is soone resolued into sande.
  • Topiarium,
    a warke made of trees, bushes, bryers, or herbes, for pleasure, and con∣tayned places to sytte or walke in, as it is vsed nowe with boxe, eglantine, iacymine, and other lyke trees or thornes, that be flexible, or wyll be wounden.
  • Topiarius,
    he that maketh suche warkes.
  • Topiaria,
    the warke.
  • Topica,
    warkes in that part of logike, whi∣che declareth the places, out of the whi∣che argumentes maye be inuented, that moste proprely pertayneth to oratours.
  • Topographia,
    the description of a place, as of a countrey or citie.
  • Topper,
    the olde wryters vsed for soone,* shortly, or quyckely.
  • Toral, & toralium,
    in plurali numero, toralia, euery thynge that lyeth on a bed, as shatis blankettes and couerlyds. In the old time it were certaine floures and swete herbes wounden togyther in ropes, and hanged before the place, where men dyd lye. Like as nowe they vse in London at Mydsom∣mer to hange afore their doores.
  • Torcular, aris, & torculare, & torculū,
    a presse for wyne, syder, or vertiuyce.
  • Torcularius, a, um,
    bylongynge to a presse.
  • Toreuma, matis, & tereumatum,
    grauen or polyshed warke.
  • Toreutis,
    a grauer.
  • Toreutice, ces,
    the crafte of grauynge.
  • Tormen, minis,
    frettynge or tourmente in the bealy and guttes.
  • Tormina,
    idem.
  • Tormentum, tourment,
    or an engyn to tur∣ment men, generally all ordinance pertay∣nynge to warre.
  • Torminosus,
    he that hathe tourmentes or frettynge in his guttes.
  • Tornacum,
    a towne callyd Tornay.
  • Tornatilis, le,
    that whiche is tourned with a whele.
  • Torniamen,
    may be nowe taken for a tour∣nayment or iustes.
  • Torno, are,
    to torne or warke with a whele, as tourners done.
  • Tornus,
    the instrument or whele.
  • Torpedo, dinis,
    slouthefulnes. also a fysshe, whiche in the takynge maketh the handes of theym that doo drawe, to be stonyed or deed for the tyme.
  • Torpeo, & torpesco, pui, torpere, uel torpe∣scere,
    to be astonyed, or slowe.
  • Torpor, poris,
    a debilitation or feblynge of mynde, an vnaptnes to do any thynge.
  • Torporo, rare,
    to astonye, or make astonied.
  • Torquatus,
    a rynge doue, or stocke doue. it is he also that weareth a colar or chayne.
  • Torqueo, torfi, quêre,
    to wynde in,* to whirle aboute lyke a whiele, to sustayne or beare vp, to tourment.
  • Torquere telum,
    to throwe a darte or iaue∣lyn, that he runne rounde.*
  • Torquere saxa,
    to tourne great stones.*
  • Torquere,
    to spynne.
  • Torques,
    a colar, chayne, or bye of gold or syluer, suche as is worne by knyghtes or esquiers about their neckes.
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    Torrefacio, cere,
    to broyle or rost at the fire, or by the heate of the sonne.
  • Torrens, tis,
    a streame, that cometh downe of hylles, whiche is caused by moche rayne or snowe. Torrens, a particyple, sygnifieth flowynge with a great swepe. Torrentior, more flowing, with a greatter violence.
  • Torreo, riri, rere, idem quod torrefacio.
  • Torresco, re,
    to be broilid or rosted, or dried.
  • Torridae zonae,
    are two girdels imagined in the firmament on euery side of the equino∣ctial line, vnder whiche gyrdels the people whiche inhabyte there, are burned with the feruent heat of the sonne, bicause the sonne abideth lōgest in those .ii. places & ar also na¦med Tropicus cancri, & tropicus Capricorni,
  • Torridus, da, dum,
    dried or burned.
  • Tortilis, le,
    that whiche is bent or bowed.
  • Torris,
    a stycke of fyre.
  • Tortiuum vinum,
    wyne of the laste presse.
  • Torto, tare,
    to tourment vehemently.
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    Tortor, toris,
    a tourmentour, or he that ca∣steth a stone with a slynge.
  • Tortū, an engin,
    to throw great stones with.
  • Tortuosus, a, ū,
    woūdē or turned many wais.
  • Tortus, ta, tum,
    crooked.
  • Torué, toruū, torua, toruiter,
    {pro}prely in behol∣dyng sowerly or grymly.
  • Toruinus,
    an apparell of a womans heed.
  • Torus,
    a bedde, it was somtyme made with herbes wounden togyther.
  • Tori,
    the brawnes of the armes and leggis, or the fleshe myxte with synewes.
  • Torosus, a, um,
    myghty or stronge in braw∣nes of the legges and armes.
  • Torsio, sionis,
    Theodorus, Gaza, & Longo∣lius supposed to be a sturgion. Paulus Io∣uius is of a contrary opinion.
  • Torulus,
    a lyttell bedde.
  • Toruê,
    sturdyly in looke.
  • Toruitas, tatia,
    sturdynes.
  • Toruus, ua, uum,
    cruel and sturdy in loking.
  • Tostus, a, um,
    tosted or rosted.
  • Totidem,
    verily so many, euen as many.
  • Tot,
    as many. Toties, so many tymes.
  • Totus, ta, tum,
    all, the hole, euery whyt.
  • Toxicum,
    venym or poyson.