Toadstone :: Toadstone (n.) A local name for the igneous rocks of Derbyshire, England; -- said by some to be derived from the German todter stein, meaning dead stone, that is, stone which contains no ores..

Toadstone :: Toadstone (n.) Bufonite, formerly regarded as a precious stone, and worn as a jewel. See Bufonite..

Toadstool :: Toadstool (n.) A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter..

Tombstone :: Tombstone (n.) A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased..

Tool-stock :: Tool-stock (n.) The part of a tool-rest in which a cutting tool is clamped.

Topstone :: Topstone (n.) A stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top..

Tosto :: Tosto (a.) Quick; rapid.

Touchstone :: Touchstone (n.) Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.

Touchstone :: Touchstone (n.) Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried.

Trachystomata :: Trachystomata (n. pl.) An order of tailed aquatic amphibians, including Siren and Pseudobranchus. They have anterior legs only, are eel-like in form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. The external gills are persistent through life..

Tragi-comi-pastoral :: Tragi-comi-pastoral (a.) Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry..

Tripestone :: Tripestone (n.) A variety of anhydrite composed of contorted plates fancied to resemble pieces of tripe.

Trispaston :: Trispaston (n.) A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights.

Tristoma :: Tristoma (n.) Any one of numerous species of trematode worms belonging to Tristoma and allied genera having a large posterior sucker and two small anterior ones. They usually have broad, thin, and disklike bodies, and are parasite on the gills and skin of fishes..

Turnstone :: Turnstone (n.) Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake..

Unaccustomed :: Unaccustomed (a.) Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- which to.

Unaccustomed :: Unaccustomed (a.) Not usual; uncommon; strange; new.

Uncustomable :: Uncustomable (a.) Not customable, or subject to custom duties..

Uncustomed :: Uncustomed (a.) Uncustomable; also, not having paid duty or customs..

Understock :: Understock (v. t.) To supply insufficiently with stock.

Understood :: Understood (imp. & p. p.) of Understan.

Understood :: Understood () imp. & p. p. of Understand.

Unpastor :: Unpastor (v. t.) To cause to be no longer pastor; to deprive of pastorship.

Unstock :: Unstock (v. t.) To deprive of a stock; to remove the stock from; to loose from that which fixes, or holds fast..

Unstock :: Unstock (v. t.) To remove from the stocks, as a ship..

Unstockinged :: Unstockinged (a.) Destitute of stockings.

Unstockinged :: Unstockinged (a.) Deprived of stockings.

Unstop :: Unstop (v. t.) To take the stopple or stopper from; as, to unstop a bottle or a cask..

Unstop :: Unstop (v. t.) To free from any obstruction; to open.

Ustorious :: Ustorious (a.) Having the quality of burning.

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