Toadflax
(Toad"flax`) n. (Bot.) An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves
and showy orange and yellow flowers; — called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted.
Toadhead
(Toad"head`) n. (Zoöl.) The golden plover. [Local, U. S.]
Toadish
(Toad"ish), a. Like a toad. [Obs.] A. Stafford.
Toadlet
(Toad"let) n. A small toad. [R.] Coleridge.
Toadstone
(Toad"stone`) n.
1. (Min.) 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.
2. Bufonite, formerly regarded as a precious stone, and worn as a jewel. See Bufonite.
Toadstool
(Toad"stool`) n. (Bot.) A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus
Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter.
Toady
(Toad"y) n.; pl. Toadies [Shortened from toadeater.]
1. A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all
toadies and humbugs.
Dickens. 2. A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] Sir W. Scott.
Toady
(Toad"y) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toadied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Toadying.] To fawn upon with mean
sycophancy.
Toadyism
(Toad"y*ism) n. The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.
Toast
(Toast) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toasted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Toasting.] [OF. toster to roast, toast, fr.
L. torrere, tostum, to parch, roast. See Torrid.]
1. To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
2. To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
3. To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a
lady.
Toast
(Toast), n. [OF. toste, or tostée, toasted bread. See Toast, v.]
1. Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices
of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.
My sober evening let the tankard bless,
With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught.
T. Warton. 2. A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; — so called because toasts were
formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast . . . who could not refrain from mentioning his
dear Sophia.
Fielding.
