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- English Word Tonca bean Definition See Tonka bean.
- English Word Toncanet Definition A small toucan.
- English Word Tone Definition Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
- English Word Tone Definition Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
- English Word Tone Definition A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.
- English Word Tone Definition A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.
- English Word Tone Definition The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.
- English Word Tone Definition The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.
- English Word Tone Definition A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.
- English Word Tone Definition That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
- English Word Tone Definition Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
- English Word Tone Definition State of mind; temper; mood.
- English Word Tone Definition Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.
- English Word Tone Definition General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.
- English Word Tone Definition The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.
- English Word Tone Definition To utter with an affected tone.
- English Word Tone Definition To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.
- English Word Tone Definition To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.
- English Word Toned Definition of Tone
- English Word Toned Definition Having (such) a tone; -- chiefly used in composition; as, high-toned; sweet-toned.
- English Word Toneless Definition Having no tone; unmusical.
- English Word Tong Definition Alt. of Tonge
- English Word Tonga Definition A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.
- English Word Tonge Definition Tongue.
- English Word Tongkang Definition A kind of boat or junk used in the seas of the Malay Archipelago.
- English Word Tongo Definition The mangrove; -- so called in the Pacific Islands.
- English Word Tongs Definition An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a pair of tongs.
- English Word Tongue Definition an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
- English Word Tongue Definition The power of articulate utterance; speech.
- English Word Tongue Definition Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.