Tokens (L. L. L. v. 2, Ant. and Cl. iii. 8), the spots on the body denoting the plague. The house in which there was one or more persons who had them was shut up, and Lord have mercy upon us! put over the door.
Too. This word occurs in the sense of trop, Fr., i.e. excessively, in Com. of Err. i. 2, L. L. L. ii. 1, Temp. ii. 2, and other places. For the difference of trop and too, assez and enough, see what I have written in Notes and Queries, 3 Ser. x. 430.
Tray-trip (Tw. N. ii. 5), the name of some game, probably played with dice; but of which we have no description.
Tribulacion. "The Tribulacion of Tower-hill or the Limbs of Limehouse" (H. VIII. v. 3) are supposed to have been the names of two Puritan congregations.
Triple (All's Well, ii. 1, Ant. and Cl. i. 1), third, one of three, a sense only to be found in Shakespeare.
Troll-my-Dames (W. T. iv. 2), a corruption of the French Trou-madame, a game also called Pigeon-holes, our present bagatelle.
Trossers (H. V. iii. 7), the tight, close-fitting pantaloons worn by the native Irish. Hence trowsers.
Truckle-bed (M. W. iv. 5, R. and J. ii. 1), a bed on castors (trochlea) for the use of the servant, who lay in the same room with the master or mistress. During the day it was run under the state-bed, and at night was drawn out at the foot. It was also called trundle-bed.
Truepenny (Ham. i. 5). Mr. Collier says he was informed that in the mining-districts of the Midland counties this term signifies a particular indication on the soil of the direction in which ore is to be found.
Try with main-course (Temp. i. 1). "To hale the tack aboord, the sheat close aft, the boling set up, and the helm tied close aboord" (Smith, Sea Grammar, 1627).