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- Toy - v. t. - A plaything for children; a bawble.
- Toy - v. t. - A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.
- Toy - v. t. - A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
- Toy - v. t. - Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.
- Toy - v. t. - An old story; a silly tale.
- Toy - v. t. - A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch.
- Toy - v. i. - To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
- Toy - v. t. - To treat foolishly.
- Toyear - adv. - This year.
- toyed - imp. & p. p. - of Toy
- Toyer - n. - One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.
- Toyful - a. - Full of trifling play.
- Toyhouse - n. - A house for children to play in or to play with; a playhouse.
- toying - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Toy
- Toyingly - adv. - In a toying manner.
- Toyish - a. - Sportive; trifling; wanton.
- Toyish - a. - Resembling a toy.
- Toyman - n. - One who deals in toys.
- Toyshop - n. - A shop where toys are sold.
- Toysome - a. - Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton.
- Finger - v. t. - To touch lightly; to toy with.
- Bilboquet - n. - The toy called cup and ball.
- Rattle - n. - An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
- Anorthoscope - n. - An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.
- Claude Lorraine glass - - A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.
- Stroboscope - n. - An optical toy similar to the phenakistoscope. See Phenakistoscope.
- Thaumatrope - n. - An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.
- Rage - n. - To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
- Harmonica - n. - A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.
- Rattlebox - n. - A toy that makes a rattling sound; a rattle.
- Doll - n. - A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl.
- Tangram - n. - A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction.
- Chapbook - n. - Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.
- Iriscope - n. - A philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films.
- Scratchback - n. - A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.