Chapter VIII: Part 8

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MILITARY AFFAIRS, Captain Hozier.

RELIGIOUS MATTERS, the Rev. Henry Wace, preacher at Lincoln’s Inn.

REPORTERS, about sixteen.

RUNNYMEDE, Benjamin Disraeli, afterwards earl of Beaconsfield, a
volunteer correspondent.

SENEX, Grote (died in 1871), a volunteer correspondent.

S. G. O., the Rev. Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne, a volunteer
correspondent.

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Dr. W. Howard Russell, famous for his letters
from the Crimēa, in 1854; from India, in 1857; from America, in 1861;
from Bohemia, in 1866; from France, on the Franco-Prussian war, in
1870-71; etc. Occasionally, Captain Hozier has acted as “Our Own
Correspondent.”

VETUS, Capt. Edw. Sterling, a volunteer correspondent.

VIATOR, John Alexander Kinglake, a volunteer correspondent.

⁂ Paper is supplied from the Taverham Mills; _ink_ by Messrs. Fleming
and Co., Leith, and by Messrs. Blackwell and Co., London; _Daily
Issue_, between 70,000 and 80,000, which can be thrown from the press
in two hours; _Working Staff_, 350 hands.

Called “The Thunderer” from an article contributed by Captain E.
Sterling, beginning: “We thundered forth the other day an article on
the subject of social and political reform;” and “The Turnabout,”
because its politics jump with the times, and are not fossilized whig
or tory.

=Tim´ias=, King Arthur’s squire. He went after the “wicked foster,”
from whom Florimel fled, and the “foster,” with his two brothers,
falling on him, were all slain. Timias, overcome by fatigue, now fell
from his horse in a swoon, and Belphœbê, the huntress, happening to
see him fall, ran to his succor, applied an ointment to his wounds,
and bound them with her scarf. The squire, opening his eyes,
exclaimed, “Angel or goddess; do I call thee right?” “Neither,”
replied the maid, “but only a wood-nymph.” Then was he set upon his
horse and taken to Belphœbê’s pavilion, where he soon “recovered
from his wounds, but lost his heart” (bk. iii. 6). In bk. iv. 7
Belphœbê subsequently found Timias in dalliance with Amoret, and
said to him, “Is this thy faith?” She said no more, “but turned her
face and fled.” This is an allusion to Sir Walter Raleigh’s amour with
Elizabeth Throgmorton (_Amoret_), one of the queen’s maids of honor,
which drew upon Sir Walter (_Timias_) the passionate displeasure of
his royal mistress, Queen Elizabeth, (_Belphœbê_).--Spenser, _Faëry
Queen_, iii. (1590).

=Timms= (_Corporal_), a non-commissioned officer in Waverley’s
regiment.--Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.).

=Timo´leon=, the Corinthian. He hated tyranny, and slew his own
brother, whom he dearly loved, because he tried to make himself
absolute in Corinth. “Timophănês he loved, but freedom more.”

The fair Corinthian boast
Timoleon, happy temper, mild and firm,
Who wept the brother while the tyrant bled.
Thomson, _The Seasons_ (“Winter,” 1726).

=Timon=, the Man-hater, an Athenian, who lived in the time of the
Peloponnesian war. Shakespeare has a drama so called (1609). The drama
begins with the joyous life of Timon, and his hospitable extravagance;
then launches into his pecuniary embarrassment, and the discovery that
his “professed friends” will not help him; and ends with his flight
into the woods, his misanthropy, and his death.

When he [_Horace Walpole_] talked misanthropy, he out-Timoned
Timon.--Macaulay.

⁂ On one occasion, Timon said, “I have a fig tree in my garden, which
I once intended to cut down; but I shall let it stand, that any one
who likes may go and hang himself on it.”

=Timon’s Banquet=, nothing but cover and warm water. Being shunned by
his friends in adversity, he pretended to have recovered his money,
and invited his false friends to a banquet. The table was laden with
covers, but when the contents were exposed, nothing was provided but
lukewarm water. (See SCHACABAC.)--Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_, act
iii. sc. 6 (1609).

=Timoth´eos=, a musician, who charged double fees to all pupils who
had learned music before.--Quintilian, _De Institutione Oratoria_, ii.
3.

Ponocrates made him forget all that he [_Gargantua_] had learned under
other masters, as Timŏthĕus did to his disciples who had been taught
music by others.--Rabelais, _Gargantua_, i. 23 (1533).

Timotheus placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire,
With flying fingers touched the lyre.
Dryden, _Alexander’s Feast_ (1697).

=Timothy= (_Old_), ostler at John Menge’s inn, at Kirchoff.--Sir W.
Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

=Timothy Quaint=, the whimsical, but faithful steward of Governor
Heartall; blunt, self-willed, but loving his master above all things,
and true to his interests.--Cherry, _The Soldier’s Daughter_ (1804).

=Ti´murkan=, the Tartar, and conqueror of China. After a usurpation of
twenty years, he was slain in a rising of the people, by Zaphimri,
“the orphan of China.”

My mind’s employed on other arts:
To sling the well-stored quiver
Over this arm, and wing the darts
At the first reindeer sweeping down the vale,
Or up the mountain, straining every nerve;
To vault the neighing steed, and urge his course,
Swifter than whirlwinds, through the ranks of war;--
These are my passions, this my only science.
Raised from a soldier to imperial sway,
I still will reign in terror.
Murphy, _The Orphan of China_, iv. 1.

=Tinacrio=, “the Sage,” father of Micomico´na, queen of Micom´icon,
and husband of Queen Zaramilla. He foretold that after his death his
daughter would be dethroned by the giant, Pandafilando, but that in
Spain, she would find a champion in Don Quixote, who would restore her
to the throne. This adventure comes to nothing, as Don Quixote is
taken home in a cage, without entering upon it.--Cervantes, _Don
Quixote_, I. iv. 3 (1605).

=Tinclarian Doctor= (_The Great_), William Mitchell, a whitesmith and
tin-plate worker, of Edinburgh, who published _Tinkler’s Testament_,
dedicated to Queen Anne, and other similar works.

The reason why I call myself the Tinclarian doctor, is because I am a
tinklar, and cures old pans and lantruns.--_Introduction to Tinkler’s
Testament._

⁂ Uniformity of spelling must not be looked for in the “doctor’s”
book. We have “Tinklar,” “Tinkler,” and “Tinclarian.”

=Tinderbox= (_Miss Jenny_), a lady with a moderate fortune, who once
had some pretensions to beauty. Her elder sister happened to marry a
man of quality, and Jenny ever after resolved not to disgrace herself
by marrying a tradesman. Having rejected many of her equals, she
became at last the governess of her sister’s children, and had to
undergo the drudgery of three servants, without receiving the wages of
one.--Goldsmith, _A Citizen of the World_, xxviii. (1759).

=Tinker= (_The Immortal_ or _The Inspired_), John Bunyan (1638-1688).

=Tinsel= (_Lord_), a type of that worst specimen of aristocracy, which
ignores all merit but blue blood, and would rather patronize a
horse-jockey than a curate, scholar, or poor gentleman. He would
subscribe six guineas to the concerts of Signor Cantata, because Lady
Dangle patronized him, but not one penny to “languages, arts, and
sciences,” as such.--S. Knowles, _The Hunchback_ (1831).

=Tintag´el= or TINTAGIL, a strong and magnificent castle on the coast
of Cornwall, said to have been the work of two giants. It was the
birthplace of King Arthur, and subsequently the royal residence of
King Mark. Dunlop asserts that vestiges of the castle still exist.

They found a naked child upon the sands
Of dark Tintagil, by the Cornish sea,
And that was Arthur.
Tennyson, _Guinevere_ (1858).

=Tinto= (_Dick_), a poor artist, son of a tailor in the village of
Langdirdum. He is introduced as a lad in the _Bride of Lammermoor_, i.
This was in the reign of William III. He is again introduced in _St.
Ronan’s Well_, i., as touching up the sign-board of Meg Dods, in the
reign of George III. As William III. died in 1702, and George III.
began to reign in 1760, Master Dick must have been a patriarch when he
worked for Mrs. Dods.--Sir W. Scott, _Bride of Lammermoor_ (1819);
_St. Ronan’s Well_ (1823).

Meg Dods agreed with the celebrated Dick Tinto to repaint her father’s
sign, which had become rather undecipherable. Dick accordingly gilded
the bishop’s crook, and augmented the horrors of the devil’s aspect,
until it became a terror to all the younger fry of the
school-house.--_St. Ronan’s Well_, i.

=Tintoretto=, the historical painter, whose real name was Jacopo
Robusti. He was called _Il Furioso_ from the extreme rapidity with
which he painted (1512-1594).

=Tintoretto of England= (_The_), W. Dobson was called “The Tintoret of
England” by Charles I. (1610-1646).

=Tintoretto of Switzerland= (_The_), John Huber (eighteenth century).

=Tiphany=, the mother of the three kings of Cologne. The word is
manifestly a corruption of St. Epiphany, as Tibs is of St. Ubes,
Taudry of St. Audry, Tooley [Street] of St. Olaf, Telder of St.
Ethelred, and so on.

Scores of the saints have similarly manufactured names.

=Ti´phys=, pilot of the Argonauts; hence any pilot.

Many a Tiphys ocean’s depths explore,
To open wondrous ways, untried before.
Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_, viii. (Hoole).

⁂ Another name for a pilot or guiding power is Palinūrus; so called
from the steersman of Ænēas.

E’en Palinurus nodded at the helm.
Pope, _The Dunciad_, iv. 614 (1742).

=Tippins= (_Lady_), an old lady “with an immense, obtuse, drab, oblong
face, like a face in a tablespoon; and a dyed ’long walk’ up the top
of her head, as a convenient public approach to the bunch of false
hair behind.” She delights “to patronize Mrs. Veneering,” and Mrs.
Veneering is delighted to be patronized by her ladyship.

Lady Tippins is always attended by a lover or two, and she keeps a
little list of her lovers, and is always booking a new lover, or
striking out an old lover, or putting a lover in her black list, or
promoting a lover to her blue list, or adding up her lovers, or
otherwise posting her book, which she calls her Cupĭdon.--C. Dickens,
_Our Mutual Friend_, ii. (1864).

=Tipple=, in Dudley’s _Flitch of Bacon_, first introduced John Edwin
into notice (1750-1790).

Edwin’s “Tipple,” in the _Flitch of Bacon_, was an exquisite
treat.--Boaden.

=Tippoo Saib= (_Prince_), son of Hyder Ali, nawaub of Mysore.--Sir W.
Scott, _The Surgeon’s Daughter_ (time, George II.).

=Tips= or “Examination Crams.” Recognized stock pieces of what is
called “book work” in university examinations are: Fermat’s theorem,
the “Ludus Trojanus” in Virgil’s _Æneid_ (bk. vi.), Agnesi’s “Witch,”
the “Cissoid” of Diocles and the famous fragment of Solon, generally
said to be by Euripidês.

In law examinations the stock pieces are the _Justinian_ of Sandars;
the _Digest of Evidence_ of Sir James Stephen; and the _Ancient Law_
of Sir Henry Maine.

The following are recognized primers:--Hill’s Logic; Spencer’s _First
Principles_; Maine’s _Ancient Law_; Lessing’s _Laocoon_; Ritter and
Preller’s _Fragmenta_; Wheaton’s _International Law_.

=Tip-tilted.= Tennyson says that Lynette had “her slender nose
tip-tilted like the petal of a flower.”--Tennyson, _Gareth and
Lynette_ (1858).

=Tiptoe=, footman to Random and Scruple. He had seen better days, but,
being found out in certain dishonest transactions, had lost grade, and
“Tiptoe, who once stood above the world,” came into a position in
which “all the world stood on Tiptoe.” He was a shrewd, lazy, knowing
rascal, better adapted to dubious adventure, but always sighing for a
snug berth in some wealthy, sober, old-fashioned, homely, county
family, with good wages, liberal diet, and little work to do.--G.
Colman, _Ways and Means_ (1788).

=Tiran´te the White=, the hero and title of a romance of chivalry.

“Let me see that book,” said the curé; “we shall find in it a fund of
amusement. Here we shall find that famous knight, Don Kyrie Elyson, of
Montalban, and Thomas, his brother, with the Knight Fonseca, the
battle which Detriantê fought with Alano, the stratagems of the Widow
Tranquil, the amour of the empress with her squire, and the witticisms
of Lady Brillianta. This is one of the most amusing books ever
written.”--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. i. 6 (1605).

=Tiresias=, a Theban soothsayer, blind from boyhood. It is said that
Athêna deprived him of sight, but gave him the power of understanding
the language of birds, and a staff as good as eyesight to direct his
way. Ovid says that Tiresias met two huge serpents in the wood and
struck them with his staff, when he found himself turned into a woman,
in which shape he remained for seven years. In the eighth year,
meeting them again, he again struck them, and was changed back to a
man. Dante places Tiresias in the Eighth Chasm of the Fourth Circle of
the Lower Hell among the sorcerers, and other dealers in magic arts.

Behold Tiresias, who changed his aspect
When of male he was made female,
Altogether transforming his members.
And afterward he had again to strike
The two involved serpents with his rod
Before he could resume his manly plumes.
Dante, _Inferno_, xx. 40.

Meeting two mighty serpents in the green wood he struck their
intertwined bodies with his staff, and, oh, wonderful! he found
himself changed into a woman, and so remained for seven years. Again
he sees them, in the eighth year. “And if,” he cried, “so powerful was
the effect of my former blow, once more will I strike you!” And, the
serpents struck with the same blows, his former shape returned, and
his original nature.--Ovid, _Metamorphoses_, iii.

⁂ Milton, regretting his own blindness, compares himself to Tiresias,
among others.

Blind Thamyris and blind Mæonidês [_Homer_],
And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old.
_Paradise Lost_, iii. 36 (1665).

=Tirlsneck= (_Jonnie_), beadle of old St. Ronan’s.--Sir W. Scott, _St.
Ronan’s Well_ (time, George III.).

=Tirso de Moli´na=, the pseudonym of Gabriel Tellez, a Spanish monk
and dramatist. His comedy called _Convivando de Piedra_ (1626) was
imitated by Molière in his _Festin de Pierre_ (1665), and has given
birth to the whole host of comedies and operas on the subject of “Don
Juan” (1570-1648).

=Tiryn´thian Swain= (_The_), Her´culês, called in Latin _Tirynthius
Heros_, because he generally resided at Tiryns, a town of Ar´golis, in
Greece.

Upon his shield lay that Tirynthian swain
Swelt’ring in fiery gore and poisonous flame,
His wife’s sad gift venomed with bloody stain. [See NESSUS.]
Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, vii. (1633).

=Tisapher´nes= (4 _syl._), “the thunderbolt of war.” He was in the
army of Egypt, and was slain by Rinaldo.--Tasso, _Jerusalem
Delivered_, xx. (1575).

⁂ This son of Mars must not be mistaken for Tissaphernês, the Persian
satrap, who sided with the Spartans, in the Peloponnesian war, and who
treacherously volunteered to guide “the ten thousand” back to Greece.

=Tisbi´na=, wife of Iroldo. Prasildo, a Babylonish nobleman, fell in
love with her, and threatened to kill himself. Tisbina, to divert him,
tells him if he will perform certain exploits which she deemed
impossible, she will return his love. These exploits he accomplishes,
and Tisbina, with Iroldo, takes poison to avoid dishonor. Prasildo
discovers that the draught they have taken is harmless, and tells them
so; whereupon Iroldo quits the country, and Tisbina marries Prasildo.
Bojardo, _Orlando Innamorato_ (1495). (See DIANORA, and DORIGEN.)

=Tisellin=, the raven, in the beast-epic of _Reynard the Fox_ (1498).

=Tisiph´one= (4 _syl._), one of the three Furies. Covered with a
bloody robe, she sits day and night at hell-gate, armed with a whip.
Tibullus says her head was coifed with serpents in lieu of hair.

The Desert Fairy, with her head covered with snakes, like Tisiphonê,
mounted on a winged griffin.--Comtesse D’Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ (“The
Yellow Dwarf,” 1682).

=Ti´tan=, the son of Hēlĭos, the child of Hyperi´on and Basil´ea, and
grandson of Cœlum, or heaven. Virgil calls the sun “Titan,” and so
does Ovid.

... primos crastĭnus ortus
Extulerit Titan, radiisque retexerit orbem.
_Æneid_, iv. 118, 119.

A maiden queen that shone at Titan’s ray.
Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, i. 4 (1590).

=Titans=, giants, sons of Heaven and Earth. Their names were Ocēănos,
Kœos, Krios, Hyperīon, Iapĕtos, and Kronos.

The _Titanĭdês_ were Theia [_Thi-a_], Rhea, Themis, Mnemosynê,
Phœbê, and Tethys.

=Titan´ia=, queen of the fairies, and wife of Obĕron. Oberon wanted
her to give him for a page a little changeling, but Titania refused to
part with him, and this led to a fairy quarrel. Oberon, in revenge,
anointed the eyes of Titania, during sleep, with an extract of “Love
in Idleness,” the effect of which was to make her fall in love with
the first object she saw on waking. The first object Titania set eyes
on happened to be a country bumpkin, whom Puck had dressed up with an
ass’s head. While Titania was fondling this unamiable creature, Oberon
came upon her, sprinkled on her an antidote, and Titania, thoroughly
ashamed of herself, gave up the boy to her spouse; after which a
reconciliation took place between the willful fairies.--Shakespeare,
_Midsummer Night’s Dream_ (1592).

=Tite Barnacle= (_Mr._), head of the Circumlocution Office, and a very
great man in his own opinion. The family had intermarried with the
Stiltstalkings, and the Barnacles and Stiltstalkings found berths
pretty readily in the national workshop, where brains and conceit were
in inverse ratio. The young gents in the office usually spoke with an
eye-glass in the eye, in this sort of style: “Oh, I say; look here!
Can’t attend to you to-day, you know. But look here! I say; can’t you
call to-morrow?” “No.” “Well, but I say; look here! Is this public
business?--anything about--tonnage--or that sort of thing?” Having
made his case understood, Mr. Clennam received the following
instructions in these words;--

You must find out all about it. Then you’ll memorialize the
department, according to the regular forms for leave to memorialize.
If you get it, the memorial must be entered in that department, sent
to be registered in this department, then sent back to that
department, then sent to this department to be countersigned, and then
it will be brought regularly before that department. You’ll find out
when the business passes through each of these stages by inquiring at
both departments till they tell you.--C. Dickens, _Little Dorrit_, x
(1857).

=Tite Poulette=, daughter (supposed) of a quadroon mother. “She lives
a lonely, innocent life, in the midst of corruption, like the lilies
in the marshes.... If she were in Holland to-day, not one of a hundred
suitors would detect the hidden blemish of mixed blood.” When the
young man, who thus describes her loves her, Lalli, her putative
mother confesses: “I have robbed GOD long enough. Here are the sworn
papers. Take her--she is as white as snow--so!... I never had a child.
She is the Spaniard’s daughter.”--G. W. Cable, _Old Creole Days_
(1879).

=Titho´nus=, a son of Laomedon, king of Troy. He was so handsome that
Auro´ra became enamored of him, and persuaded Jupiter to make him
immortal; but as she forgot to ask for eternal youth also, he became
decrepit and ugly, and Aurora changed him into a cicada, or
grasshopper. His name is a synonym for a very old man.

Weary of aged Tithon’s saffron-bed.
Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, I. ii. 7 (1500).

... thinner than Tithōnus was
Before he faded into air.
Lord Lytton, _Tales of Milētus_, ii.

_Tithonus_ (_The Consort of_), the dawn.

Now the fair consort of Tithonus old,
Arisen from her mate’s beloved arms,
Looked palely o’er the eastern cliff.
Dantê, _Purgatory_, ix. (1308).

=Tithor´ea=, one of the two chief summits of Parnassus. It was
dedicated to Bacchus, the other (_Lycorēa_), being dedicated to the
Muses and Apollo.

=Titian= (_Tiziano Vecellio_), an Italian landscape painter,
especially famous for his flesh-tints and female figures (1477-1576).

_Titian_ (_The French_), Jacques Blanchard (1600-1638).

_Titian_ (_The Portuguese_), Alonzo Sanchez Coello (1515-1590).

=Titmarsh= (_Michael Angelo_), a pseudonym used by Thackeray, in a
number of his earlier writings. Like Michael Angelo, Thackeray had a
broken nose.

=Titmouse= (_Mr. Tittlebat_), a vulgar, ignorant coxcomb, suddenly
raised from the degree of a linen-draper’s shopman, to a man of
fortune, with an income of £10,000 a year.--Warren, _Ten Thousand a
Year_.

=Tito Mele´ma=, a Greek, who marries Romola.--George Eliot, _Romola_.

=Titurel=, the first king of Graal-burg. He has brought into
subjection all his passions, has resisted all the seductions of the
world, and is modest, chaste, pious, and devout. His daughter, Sigunê,
is in love with Tschionatulander, who is slain.--Wolfram von
Eschenbach, _Titurel_ (thirteenth century).

⁂ Wolfram’s _Titurel_ is a tedious expansion of a lay already in
existence, and Albert of Scharfenberg produced a _Young Titurel_, at
one time thought the best romance of chivalry in existence, but it is
pompous, stilted, erudite, and wearisome.

=Titus=, the son of Lucius Junius Brutus. He joined the faction of
Tarquin, and was condemned to death by his father, who, having been
the chief instrument in banishing the king and all his race, was
created the first consul. The subject has been often dramatized. In
English, by N. Lee (1678) and John Howard Payne (1820). In French, by
Arnault, in 1792; and by Ponsard, in 1843. In Italian, by Alfieri,
_Bruto_, etc. It was in Payne’s tragedy that Charles Kean made his
_début_ in Glasgow, as “Titus,” his father playing “Brutus.”

_Titus_, “the delight of man,” the Roman emperor, son of Vespasian
(40, 79-81).

_Titus_, the penitent thief, according to the legend. Dumăchus and
Titus were two of a band of robbers, who attacked Joseph in his flight
into Egypt. Titus said, “Let these good people go in peace;” but
Dumachus replied, “First let them pay their ransom.” Whereupon Titus
handed to his companion forty groats; and the infant Jesus said to
him:

When thirty years shall have gone by
I at Jerusalem shall die ...
On the accursêd tree.
Then on My right and My left side,
These thieves shall both be crucified,
And Titus thenceforth shall abide
In paradise with Me.
Longfellow, _The Golden Legend_ (1851).

=Tityre Tus= (long _u_), the name assumed in the seventeenth century
by a clique of young blades of the better class, whose delight was to
break windows, upset sedan-chairs, molest quiet citizens, and rudely
caress pretty women in the streets at night-time. These brawlers took
successively many titular names, as Muns, Hectors, Scourers,
afterwards Nickers, later still Hawcubites, and lastly Mohawks or
Mohocks.

“Tityre tu-s” is meant for the plural of “Tityre tu,” in the first
line of Virgil’s first _Eclogue_: “Tityre, tu patulæ recubans sub
tegmine fagi,” and meant to imply that these blades were men of
leisure and fortune, who “lay at ease under their patrimonial beech
trees.”

=Tit´yrus=, in the _Shepheardes Calendar_, by Spenser (ecl. ii. and
vi.), is meant for Chaucer.

The gentle shepherd sate beside a spring ...
That Colin hight, which well could pipe and sing,
For he of Tityrus his song did learn.
Spenser, _The Shepheardes Calendar_, xii. (1579).

=Tityus=, a giant, whose body covered nine acres of ground. In
Tartărus, two vultures or serpents feed forever on his liver, which
grows as fast as it is gnawed away.

Promētheus (3 _syl._) is said to have been fastened to Mount Caucasus,
where two eagles fed on his liver, which never wasted.

Nor unobserved lay stretched upon the marle
Tityus, earth-born, whose body, long and large,
Covered nine acres. There two vultures sat,
Of appetite insatiate, and with beaks
For ravine bent, unintermitting gored
His liver. Powerless he to put to flight
The fierce devourers. To this penance judged
For rape intended on Latona fair.
Fenton’s _Homer’s Odyssey_, xi. (1716).

=Tizo´na=, the Cid’s sword. It was buried with him, as Joyeuse
(Charlemagne’s sword) was buried with Charlemagne, and Durindāna with
Orlando.

=Tlal´ala=, surnamed “The Tiger,” one of the Aztĕcas. On one occasion,
being taken captive, Madoc released him, but he continued the
unrelenting foe of Madoc and his new colony, and was always foremost
in working them evil. When at length the Aztecas, being overcome,
migrated to Mexico, Tlalala refused to quit the spot of his father’s
tomb, and threw himself on his own javelin.--Southey, _Madoc_ (1805).

=Toad-Eater= (_Pulteney’s_). Henry Vane was so called in 1742, by Sir
Robert Walpole. Two years later, Sarah Fielding, in _David Simple_,
speaks of “toad-eater” as “quite a new word,” and she suggests that it
is “a metaphor taken from a mountebank’s boy eating toads in order to
show his master’s skill in expelling poison,” and “built on a
supposition that people who are in a state of dependence are forced to
do the most nauseous things to please and humor their patrons.”

=Tobo´so= (_Dulcinĕa del_), the lady chosen by Don Quixote for his
particular paragon. Sancho Panza says she was “a stout-built, sturdy
wench, who could pitch the bar as well as any young fellow in the
parish.” The knight had been in love with her before he took to
errantry. She was Aldonza Lorenzo, the daughter of Lorenzo Corchuelo
and Aldonza Nogalês; but when Signior Quixāda assumed the dignity of
knighthood, he changed the name and style of his lady into Dulcinea
del Tobōso, which was more befitting his rank.--Cervantes, _Don
Quixote_, I. i. 1 (1605).

=Toby=, waiter of the Spa hotel, St. Ronan’s, kept by Sandie
Lawson.--Sir W. Scott, _St. Ronan’s Well_ (time, George III.).

_Toby_, a brown Rockingham-ware beer jug, with the likeness of Toby
Filpot embossed on its sides, “a goodly jug of well-browned clay,
fashioned into the form of an old gentleman, atop of whose bald head
was a fine froth answering to his wig” (ch. iv.).

Gabriel lifted Toby to his mouth, and took a hearty draught.--C.
Dickens, _Master Humphrey’s Clock_ (“Barnaby Rudge,” xli., 1841).

_Toby_, Punch’s dog, in the puppet-show exhibition of _Punch and
Judy_.

In some versions of the great drama of _Punch_, there is a small dog
(a modern innovation), supposed to be the private property of that
gentleman, and of the name of Toby--always Toby. This dog has been
stolen in youth from another gentleman, and fraudulently sold to the
confiding hero who, having no guile himself, has no suspicion that it
lurks in others; but Toby, entertaining a grateful recollection of his
old master, and scorning to attach himself to any new patron, not only
refuses to smoke a pipe at the bidding of Punch but (to mark his old
fidelity more strongly) seizes him by the nose, and wrings the same
with violence, at which instance of canine attachment the spectators
are always deeply affected.--C. Dickens.

_Toby_, in the periodical called _Punch_, is represented as a grave,
consequential, sullen, unsocial pug, perched on back volumes of the
national Menippus, which he guards so stolidly that it would need a
very bold heart to attempt to filch one. There is no reminiscence in
this Toby, like that of his peep-show namesake, of any previous
master, and no aversion to his present one. Punch himself is the very
beau-ideal of good-natured satire and far-sighted shrewdness, while
his dog (the very Diogĕnês of his tribe) would scorn his nature if he
could be made to smile at anything.

⁂ The first cover of immortal _Punch_ was designed by A. S. Henning;
the present one by Richard Doyle.

_Toby_ (_Uncle_), a captain, who was wounded at the siege of Namur,
and was obliged to retire from the service. He is the impersonation of
kindness, benevolence, and simple-heartedness; his courage is
undoubted, his gallantry delightful for its innocence and modesty.
Nothing can exceed the grace of Uncle Toby’s love-passages with the
Widow Wadman. It is said that Lieutenant Sterne (father of the
novelist), was the prototype of Uncle Toby.--Sterne, _Tristram Shandy_
(1759).

My Uncle Toby is one of the finest compliments ever paid to human
nature. He is the most unoffending of God’s creatures, or, as the
French would express it, _un tel petit bonhomme_. Of his
bowling-green, his sieges, and his amours, who would say or think
anything amiss?--Hazlitt.

=Toby Veck=, ticket-porter and jobman, nicknamed “Trotty” from his
trotting pace. He was “a weak, small, spare man,” who loved to earn
his money, and heard the chimes ring words in accordance with his
fancy, hopes, and fears. After a dinner of tripe, he lived for a time
in a sort of dream, and woke up on New Year’s day to dance at his
daughter’s wedding.--C. Dickens, _The Chimes_ (1844).

=Todd= (_Laurie_), a poor Scotch nailmaker, who emigrates to America,
and, after some reverses of fortune, begins life again as a
backwoodsman, and greatly prospers.--Galt, _Laurie Todd_.

=Tod´gers= (_Mrs._), proprietress of a “commercial boarding-house;”
weighed down with the overwhelming cares of sauces, gravy, and the
wherewithal of providing for her lodgers. Mrs. Todgers had a soft
heart for Mr. Pecksniff, widower, and being really kind-hearted,
befriended poor Mercy Pecksniff in her miserable married life with her
brutal husband, Jonas Chuzzlewit.--C. Dickens, _Martin Chuzzlewit_
(1844).

=Tofa´na=, of Palermo, a noted poisoner, who sold a tasteless,
colorless poison, called the _Manna of St. Nicola of Bara_, but better
known as _Aqua Tofana_. Above 600 persons fell victims to this fatal
drug. She was discovered in 1659, and died 1730.

La Spara or Hieronyma Spara, about a century previously, sold an
“elixir” equally fatal. The secret was ultimately revealed to her
father confessor.

=Tofts= (_Mistress_), a famous singer towards the close of the
eighteenth century. She was very fond of cats, and left a legacy to
twenty of the tabby tribe.

Not Niobê mourned more for fourteen brats,
Nor Mistress Tofts, to leave her twenty cats.
Peter Pindar [Dr. Wolcot], _Old Simon_ (1809).

=Toinette=, a confidential female servant of Argan, the _malade
imaginaire_. “Adroite, soigneuse, diligente, et surtout fidèle,” but
contractious, and always calling into action her master’s irritable
temper. In order to cure him, she pretends to be a travelling
physician of about 90 years of age, although she has not seen
twenty-six summers; and in the capacity of a Galen, declares M. Argan
is suffering from lungs, recommends that one arm should be cut off,
and one eye taken out to strengthen the remaining one. She enters into
a plot to open the eyes of Argan to the real affection of Angelique
(his daughter), the false love of her stepmother, and to marry the
former to Cléante, the man of her choice, in all which schemes she is
fully successful.--Molière, _Le Malade Imaginaire_ (1673).

=Toison d’Or=, chief herald of Burgundy.--Sir W. Scott, _Quentin
Durward_, and _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

=Toki=, the Danish William Tell. Saxo Grammaticus, a Danish writer of
the twelfth century, tells us that Toki once boasted, in the hearing
of Harald Bluetooth, that he could hit an apple with his arrow off a
pole; and the Danish Gessler set him to try his skill by placing an
apple on the head of the archer’s son (twelfth century).

=Tolande of Anjou=, a daughter of old King Réné of Provence, and
sister of Margaret of Anjou (wife of Henry VI. of England).--Sir W.
Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

=Tolbooth= (_The_), the principal prison of Edinburgh.

The Tolbooth felt defrauded of his charms
If Jeffrey died, except within her arms.
Byron, _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_ (1809).

Lord Byron refers to the “duel” between Francis Jeffrey, editor of the
_Edinburgh Review_, and Thomas Moore, the poet, at Chalk Farm, in
1806. The duel was interrupted, and it was then found that neither of
the pistols contained a bullet.

Can none remember the eventful day,
That ever-glorious, almost fatal fray,
When Little’s [_Thomas Moore_] leadless pistol met his eye,
And Bow Street myrmidons stood laughing by?
Ditto.

=Tolme´tes= (3 _syl._), Foolhardiness personified in _The Purple
Island_, fully described in canto viii. His companions were Arrogance,
Brag, Carelessness, and Fear. (Greek, _tolmêtês_, “a foolhardy man.”)

Thus ran the rash Tolmetes, never viewing
The fearful fiends that duly him attended ...
Much would he boldly do, but much more boldly vaunt.
P. Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, viii. (1633).

=Tom=, “the Portugal dustman,” who joined the allied army against
France in the war of the Spanish Succession.--Dr. Arbuthnot, _History
of John Bull_ (1712).

_Tom_, one of the servants of Mr. Peregrine Lovel, “with a good deal
of surly honesty about him.” Tom is no sneak, and no tell-tale, but he
refuses to abet Philip, the butler, in sponging on his master, and
wasting his property in riotous living. When Lovel discovers the state
of affairs, and clears out his household, he retains Tom, to whom he
entrusts the cellar and the plate.--Rev. J. Townley, _High Life Below
Stairs_ (1750).

=Tom Folio=, Thomas Rawlinson, the bibliopolist (1681-1725).

=Tom Jones= (1 _syl._), a model of generosity, openness, and manly
spirit, mixed with dissipation. Lord Byron calls him “an accomplished
blackguard” (_Don Juan_, xiii. 110, 1824).--Fielding, _Tom Jones_
(1749).

A hero with a flawed reputation, a hero sponging for a guinea, a hero
who cannot pay his landlady, and is obliged to let his honor out to
hire, is absurd, and the claim of Tom Jones to heroic rank is quite
untenable.--Thackeray.

=Tom Long=, the hero of an old tale, entitled _The Merry Conceits of
Tom Long, the Carrier, being many Pleasant Passages and Mad Pranks
which he observed in his Travels_. This tale was at one time amazingly
popular.

=Tom Scott=, Daniel Quilp’s boy, Tower Hill. Although Quilp was a
demon incarnate, yet “between the boy and the dwarf there existed a
strange kind of mutual liking.” Tom was very fond of standing on his
head, and on one occasion Quilp said to him, “Stand on your head
again, and I’ll cut one of your feet off.”

The boy made no answer, but directly Quilp had shut himself in, stood
on his head before the door, then walked on his hands to the back, and
stood on his head there, then to the opposite side and repeated the
performance.... Quilp, knowing his disposition, was lying in wait at a
little distance, armed with a large piece of wood, which, being rough
and jagged, and studded with broken nails, might possibly have hurt
him, if it had been thrown at him.--C. Dickens, _The Old Curiosity
Shop_, v. (1840).

=Tom Thumb=, the name of a very diminutive little man in the court of
King Arthur, killed by the poisonous breath of a spider, in the reign
of King Thunstone, the successor of Arthur. In the Bodleian Library
there is a ballad about Tom Thumb, which was printed in 1630. Richard
Johnson wrote in prose, _The History of Tom Thumbe_, which was printed
in 1621. In 1630, Charles Perrault published his tale called _Le Petit
Poucet_. Tom Thumb is introduced by Drayton in his _Nymphidia_
(1563-1631).

“Tom” in this connection is the Swedish _tomt_ (“a nix or dwarf”), as
in _Tomptgubbe_ (“a brownie or kobold”); the final t is silent, and
the tale is of Scandinavian origin.

_Tom Thumb_, a burlesque opera, altered by Kane O’Hara (author of
_Midas_), in 1778, from a dramatic piece by Fielding, the novelist
(1730). Tom Thumb, having killed the giants, falls in love with
Huncamunca, daughter of King Arthur. Lord Grizzle wishes to marry the
princess, and when he hears that the “pygmy giant-queller” is
preferred before him, his lordship turns traitor, invests the palace
“at the head of his rebellious rout,” and is slain by Tom. Then
follows the bitter end: A red cow swallows Tom, the queen,
Dollallolla, kills Noodle, Frizaletta kills the queen, Huncamunca
kills Frizaletta, Doodle kills Huncamunca, Plumantê kills Doodle, and
the king, being left alone, stabs himself. Merlin now enters, commands
the red cow to “return our England’s Hannibal,” after which the wise
wizard restores all the slain ones to life again, and thus “jar
ending,” each resolves to go home “and make a night on’t.”

=Tom Tiddler’s Ground=, a nook in a rustic by-road, where Mr. Mopes,
the hermit, lived, and had succeeded in laying it waste. In the middle
of the plot was a ruined hovel, without one patch of glass in the
windows, and with no plank or beam that had not rotted or fallen away.
There was a slough of water, a leafless tree or two, and plenty of
filth. Rumor said that Tom Mopes had murdered his beautiful wife from
jealousy, and had abandoned the world. Mr. Traveller tried to reason
with him, and bring him back to social life, but the tinker replied,
“When iron is thoroughly rotten you cannot botch it, do what you
may.”--C. Dickens, _A Christmas Number_ (1861).

=Tom Tiler and His Wife=, a transition play between a morality and a
tragedy (1578).

=Tom Tipple=, a highwayman in Captain Macheath’s gang. Peachum calls
him “a guzzling, soaking sot, always too drunk to stand himself or to
make others stand. A cart,” he says, “is absolutely necessary for
him.”--Gray, _The Beggar’s Opera_, i. (1727).

=Tom Tram=, the hero of a novel entitled _The Mad Pranks of Tom Tram,
Son-in-Law to Mother Winter, whereunto is added His Merry Jests, Odd
Conceits and Pleasant Tales_ (seventeenth century).

All your wits that fleer and sham,
Down from Don Quixote to Tom Tram.
Prior.

=Tom-a-Thrum=, a sprite which figures in the fairy tales of the Middle
Ages; a “queer-looking little auld man,” whose chief exploits were in
the vaults and cellars of old castles. John Skelton, speaking of the
clergy, says:

Alas! for very shame, some cannot declyne their name;
Some cannot scarsly rede, And yet will not drede
For to kepe a cure.... As wyse as Tom-a-Thrum.
_Colyn Clout_ (time, Henry VIII.).

=Tom o’ Bedlam=, a ticket-of-leave madman from Bethlehem Hospital, or
one discharged as incurable.

=Tom of Ten Thousand=, Thomas Thynne; so called from his great wealth.
He was buried in Westminster Abbey, but why, the then dean has not
thought fit to leave on record.

=Tom the Piper=, one of the characters in the ancient morris-dance,
represented with a tabor, tabor-stick and pipe. He carried a sword and
shield, to denote his rank as a “squire minstrel.” His shoes were
brown; his hose red and “gimp-thighed;” his hat or cap, red, turned up
with yellow, and adorned with a feather; his doublet blue, the sleeves
being turned up with yellow; and he wore a yellow cape over his
shoulders. (See MORRIS-DANCE.)

=Tom Turner= (_Mrs._), unsophisticated country dame, whose head is
turned by the feigned devotion of a man to whom “flirting is a part of
daily existence.” “Mrs. Tom” dresses flashily, in imitation of the
butterflies of fashion whom she meets in her new career as a woman of
the world, affects airs and graces foreign to her nature, and plays
the fool generally until shocked into her senses by a letter from her
quiet, commonplace husband, telling her that he “has gone away and
that she will not see him again.” She follows him, entreats
forgiveness, returns to home and plain living, and, as a
characteristic penance, wears her gaudy costumes out as everyday
gowns. There were thirty of them at first. “I’ve worn them all almost
out. When I get to the end of them I’ll have my own things again.”--H.
C. Bunner, _Mrs. Tom’s Spree_ (1891).

=Tomahourich= (_Muhme Janet of_), an old sibyl, aunt of Robin Oig
M’Combich, the Highland drover.--Sir W. Scott, _The Two Drovers_
(time, George III.).

=Tom´alin=, a valiant fairy knight, kinsman of King Obĕron. Tomălin is
not the same as “Tom Thumb,” as we are generally but erroneously told,
for in the “mighty combat” Tomalin backed Pigwiggen, while Tom Thum or
Thumb, seconded King Oberon. This fairy battle was brought about by
the jealousy of Oberon, who considered the attentions of Pigwiggen to
Queen Mab were “far too nice.”--M. Drayton, _Nymphidia_ (1563-1631).

=Tomb= (_Knight of the_), James, earl of Douglas in disguise.

His armor was ingeniously painted so as to represent a skeleton; the
ribs being constituted by the corselet and its back-piece. The shield
represented an owl with its wings spread--a device which was repeated
upon the helmet, which appeared to be completely covered by an image
of the same bird of ill omen. But that which was particularly
calculated to excite surprise in the spectator was the great height
and thinness of the figure.--Sir W. Scott, _Castle Dangerous_, xiv.
(time, Henry I.).

=Tomboy= (_Priscilla_), a self-willed, hoydenish, ill-educated romp,
of strong animal spirits, and wholly unconventional. She is a West
Indian, left under the guardianship of Barnacle, and sent to London
for her education. Miss Priscilla Tomboy lives with Barnacle’s
brother, old [Nicholas] Cockney, a grocer, where she plays
boy-and-girl love with young Walter Cockney, which consists chiefly in
pettish quarrels and personal insolence. Subsequently she runs off
with Captain Sightly, but the captain behaves well by presenting
himself next day to the guardian, and obtaining his consent to
marriage.--_The Romp_ (altered from Bickerstaff’s _Love in the City_).

=Tomès= [_Tō-may_], one of the five physicians called in by Sganarelle
to consult on the malady of his daughter, Lucinde (2 _syl._). Being
told that a coachman he was attending was dead and buried, the doctor
asserted it to be quite impossible, as the coachman had been ill only
six days, and Hippocrătês had positively stated that the disorder
would not come to its height till the fourteenth day. The five doctors
meet in consultation, talk of the town gossip, their medical
experience, their visits, anything, in short, except the patient. At
length the father enters to inquire what decision they had come to.
One says Lucinde must have an emetic, M. Tomès says she must be
blooded; one says an emetic will be her death, the other that bleeding
will infallibly kill her.

_M. Tomès_, Si vous ne faites saigner tout à l’heure votre fille,
c’est une personne morte.

_M. Desfonandrès_, Si vous la faites saigner, elle ne sera pas en vie
dans un quart-d’-heure.

And they quit the house in great anger (act. ii. 4).--Molière,
_L’Amour Médecin_ (1665).

=Tomkins= (_Joseph_), secret emissary of Cromwell. He was formerly
Philip Hazeldine, _alias_ Master Fibbet, secretary to Colonel
Desborough (one of the parliamentary commissioners).--Sir W. Scott,
_Woodstock_ (time, Commonwealth).

=Tom´yris=, queen of the Massagētæ. She defeated Cyrus, who had
invaded her kingdom, and, having slain him, threw his head into a
vessel filled with human blood, saying, “It was blood you thirsted
for; now take your fill!”

Great bronze valves embossed with Tomyris.
Tennyson, _The Princess_, v.

[_I_] was shown the seath and cruel mangling made
By Tomyris on Cyrus, when she cried,
“Blood thou didst thirst for; take thy fill of blood!”
Dantê, _Purgatory_, xii (1308).

=Ton-Iosal= was so heavy and unwieldy that when he sat down it took
the whole force of a hundred men to set him upright on his feet
again.--_The Fiona_.

If Fion was remarkable for his stature, ... in weight all yielded to
the celebrated Ton-Iosal.--J. Macpherson, _Dissertation on Ossian_.

=Ton-Thena= (“_fire of the wave_”), a remarkable star which guided
Larthon to Ireland, as mentioned in Ossian’s _Tem´ora_, vii., and
called in _Cathlin of Clutha_, “the red traveller of the clouds.”

=Tonio=, a young Tyrolese, who saved Maria, the sutler-girl, when on
the point of falling down a precipice. The two, of course, fall in
love with each other, and the regiment, which had adopted the
sutler-girl, consents to their marriage, provided Tonio will enlist
under its flag. No sooner is this done than the marchioness of
Berkenfield lays claim to Maria as her daughter, and removes her to
the castle. In time, the castle is besieged and taken by the very
regiment into which Tonio had enlisted, and, as Tonio had risen to the
rank of a French officer, the marchioness consents to his marriage
with her daughter.--Donizetti, _La Figlia del Reggimento_ (1840).

=Tonna= (_Mrs._), Charlotte Elizabeth (1792-1846).

=Tonto= (_Don Cherubin_), canon of Tole´do, the weakest mortal in the
world, though, by his smirking air, you would fancy him a wit. When he
hears a delicate performance read, he listens with such attention as
seems full of intelligence, but all the while he understands nothing
of the matter.--Lesage, _Gil Blas_, v. 12 (1724).

=Tonton=, the smallest dog that ever existed. When the three princes
of a certain king were sent to procure the tiniest dog they could
find, as a present to their aged father, the White Cat gave the
youngest of them a dog, so small that it was packed in wadding in a
common acorn shell.

As soon as the acorn was opened, they all saw a little dog laid in
cotton, and so small it might jump through a finger-ring without
touching it.... It was a mixture of several colors; its ears and long
hair reached to the ground. The prince set it on the ground, and
forthwith the tiny creature began to dance a saraband with
castanets.--Comtesse D’Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ (“The White Cat,” 1682)

=Tony Lumpkin=, a young booby, fond of practical jokes, and low
company. He was the son of Mrs. Hardcastle by her first
husband.--Goldsmith, _She Stoops to Conquer_ (1773).

=Tony Tyler=, on the editorial staff of the _Tecumseh Chronicle_. “He
knows about eighteen hundred times as much as Samboye (managing
editor) does, only somehow, he hasn’t the faculty of putting it on
paper. Too much whiskey!”--Harold Frederic, Seth’s Brother’s Wife
(1886).

=Toodle=, engine-fireman, an honest fellow, very proud of his wife,
Polly, and her family.

_Polly Toodle_, known by the name of Richards, wife of the stoker.
Polly was an apple-faced woman, and was mother of a large, apple-faced
family. This jolly, homely, kind-hearted matron was selected as the
nurse of Paul Dombey, and soon became devotedly attached to Paul and
his sister, Florence.

_Robin Toodle_, known as “The Biler,” or “Rob the Grinder,” eldest son
of Mrs. Toodle, wet-nurse of Paul Dombey. Mr. Dombey gets Robin into
an institution called “The Charitable Grinders,” where the worst part
of the boy’s character is freely developed. Robin becomes a sneak, and
enters the service of James Carker, manager of the firm of Dombey and
Son. On the death of Carker, Robin enters the service of Miss Lucretia
Tox.--C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_ (1846).

=Toom Tabard= (“_empty jacket_”), a nickname given to John Balliol,
because his appointment to the sovereignty of Scotland was an empty
name. He had the royal robe or jacket, but nothing else (1259,
1292-1314).

=Tooth Worshipped= (_A_). The people of Ceylon worship the tooth of an
elephant; those of Malabar, the tooth of a monkey. The Siamese once
offered a Portuguese 700,000 ducats for the redemption of a monkey’s
tooth.

=Tooth-picks.= The Romans used tooth-picks made of mastic wood, in
preference to quills; hence, Rabelais says that Prince Gargantua
“picked his teeth with mastic tooth-pickers” (s’escuroit les dents
avecques ung trou de lentisce), bk. i. 23.

Lentiscum melius; sed si tibi frondea cuspis
Defuerit, dentes, penna, levare potes.
Martial, _Epigrams_, xx. 24.

=Toots= (_Mr._), an innocent, warm-hearted young man, just burst from
the bonds of Dr. Blimber’s school, and deeply in love with Florence
Dombey. He is famous for blushing, refusing what he longs to accept,
and for saying, “Oh, it is of no consequence.” Being very nervous, he
never appears to advantage, but in the main, “there were few better
fellows in the world.”

“I assure you,” said Mr. Toots, “really I am dreadfully sorry, but
it’s of no consequence.”--C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_, xxviii.
(1846).

=Topas= (_Sir_), a native of Poperyng, in Flanders; a capital
sportsman, archer, wrestler, and runner. Chaucer calls him “Sir
Thopas” (_q.v._).

_Topas_ (_Sir_). Sir Charles Dilke was so called by the _Army and Navy
Gazette_, November 25, 1871 (1810-1869).

=Topham= (_Master Charles_), usher of the black rod.--Sir W. Scott,
_Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.).

=Topsy=, a young slave-girl, who never knew whether she had either
father or mother, and being asked by Miss Ophelia St. Clare, how she
supposed she came into the world, replied, “I ’spects I
growed.”--Harriet Beecher Stowe, _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ (1852).

=Tor= (_Sir_), the natural son of King Pellinore, and the wife of
Aries, the cowherd. He was the first of the knights of the Round
Table.--Sir. T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, i. 24 (1470).

=Toralva= (_The licentiate_), mounted on a cane, was conveyed through
the air with his eyes shut; in twelve hours he arrived at Rome, and
the following morning returned to Madrid. During his flight he opened
his eyes once, and found himself so near the moon that he could have
touched it with his finger.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, II. iii. 5
(1615). (See TORRALBA.)

=Tordenskiol= [_Tor´.den.skole_], or the “Thunder-Shield.” So Peder
Wessel, vice-admiral of Denmark (in the reign of Christian V.), was
called. He was brought up as a tailor, and died in a duel.

From Denmark thunders Tordenskiol;
Let each to heaven commend his soul,
And fly.
Longfellow, _King Christian_ [_V._].

=Torfe= (_Mr. George_), provost of Orkney.--Sir W. Scott, _The Pirate_
(time, William III.).

=Tormes= (_Lazarillo de_), by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (sixteenth
century); a kind of Gil Blas, whose adventures and roguish tricks are
the first of a very popular sort of novel called the _Gusto
Picaresco_. Lesage has imitated it in his _Gil Blas_, and we have
numberless imitations in our own language. (See TYLL OWLYGLASS.)

The ideal Yankee, in whom European prejudice has combined the
attractive traits of a Gines de Passamonte, a Joseph Surface, a
Lazarillo de Tormes, a Scapin, a Thersitês, and an Autolycus.--W. H.
Hurlburt.

⁂ “Gines de Passamonte,” in _Don Quixote_, by Cervantes; “Joseph
Surface,” in _The School for Scandal_, by Sheridan; “Scapin,” in _Les
Fourberies de Scapin_, by Molière; “Thersitês,” in Homer’s Iliad, i.;
“Autolycus,” in the _Winter’s Tale_, by Shakespeare.

=Tormot=, youngest son of Torquil, of the Oak (foster-father of Eachin
M’Ian).--Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.).

=Torquato=, that is, Torquato Tasso, the Italian poet, author of
_Jerusalem Delivered_ (1544-1595). After the publication of his great
epic, Tasso lived in the court of Ferrara, and conceived a violent
passion for Leonora, one of the duke’s sisters, but fled, in 1577, to
Naples.

Torquato’s tongue
Was tuned for slavish pæans at the throne
Of tinsel pomp.
Akenside, _Pleasures of Imagination_, ii. (1744).

=Torquil of the Oak=, foster-father of Eachin M’Ian. He was chief of
the clan Quhele, and had eight sons, the finest men in the clan.
Torquil was a seer, who was supposed to have communication with the
invisible world, and he declared a demon had told him that Eachin or
Hector M’Ian, was the only man in the two hostile clans of Chattan and
Quhele who would come off scathless in the approaching combat (ch
xxvi.).--Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.).

A parallel combat is described in _The Cid_. When Sancho of Castile
was stabbed by Bellĭdo of Zamora, Diego Ordoñez, of the house of Lara,
challenged five of the knights of Zamora to a single combat. Don Arias
Gonzalo and his four sons accepted the challenge. Pedro Arias was
first slain, then his brother, Diego. Next came Herman, who received a
mortal wound, but struck the charger of Diego Ordoñez. The charger,
furious with pain, carried its rider beyond the lists, and the combat
was declared to be drawn.

=Torralba= (_Dr._), carried by the spirit Cequiel from Valladŏlid to
Rome and back again in an hour and a half. He was tried by the
Inquisition for sorcery (time, Charles V.).--Joseph de Ossau Pellicer
(seventeenth century). (See TORALVA.)

=Torre= (_Sir_), son of Sir Bernard, baron of Astolat. His brother was
Sir Lavaine, and his sister Elaine “the lily maid of Astolat.” He was
blunt-mannered, but not without kindness of heart.--Tennyson, _Idylls
of the King_ (“Elaine”).

The word “Torre” is a blunder for Tirre. Sir Torre or Tor, according
to Arthurian legend, was the natural son of Pellinore, king of Wales,
“begotten of Aries’ wife, the cowherd” (pt. ii. 108). It was Sir Tirre
who was the brother of Elaine (pt. iii. 122).--Sir T. Malory, _History
of Prince Arthur_ (1470).

=Tor´rismond=, general of the forces of Aragon. He falls in love with
Leonora, the usurping queen, promised in marriage to Bertran, prince
of the blood-royal, but she falls in love with Torrismond, who turns
out to be the son of Sancho, the deposed king. Ultimately Sancho is
restored, and Leonora is married to Torrismond.--Dryden, _The Spanish
Fryar_ (1680),

=Torso Farne´se= (3 _syl._), Dircê and her sons, the work of
Apollonius and Tauriscus of Rhodes.

=Toshach Beg=, the “second” of M’Gillie Chattanach, chief of the clan
Chattan, in the great combat.--Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_
(time, Henry IV.).

=Tottenham in Boots=, a popular toast in Ireland in 1734. Mr.
Tottenham gave the casting vote which threw out a Government bill very
obnoxious to the Irish, on the subject of the Irish parliament. He had
come from the country, and rushed into the House, without changing his
boots just in time to give his vote, which prevented the bill from
passing by a majority of one.

=Totterly= (_Lord_), an Adonis of 60, and a _ci-devant Jeune
Homme_.--C. Selby, _The Unfinished Gentleman_.

=Touchet= [_Too-shay_]. When Charles IX. introduced Henri of Navarre
to Marie Touchet, the witty Navarrese made this anagram of her name,
_Je charme tout_.

=Touchetts= (_The_). _Mrs. Touchett_, “plain-faced old woman, without
coquetry, and without any great elegance, but with an extreme respect
for her own motives. Mrs. Touchett might do a great deal of good, but
she never pleases.” She lives in Florence, her husband in London.

_Mr. Touchett_, “a gentle, refined, fastidious old man, combining
consummate shrewdness with a sort of fraternizing good humor.” His
feeling about his own position in the world is of the democratic sort.

_Ralph Touchett_, philosophical invalid, whose interest in his cousin
Isabel is believed by most people to be brotherly. In order that she
may not feel obliged to marry for a support, he persuades his father
to divide his (Ralph’s) inheritance into two equal parts and give
one-half, unconditionally, to Isabel. She is married for this fortune,
and, a miserable woman, comes against her husband’s will, to see her
cousin die happy because she is with him.--Henry James, Jr., _Portrait
of a Lady_ (1881).