TOCSIN Toc"sin, n. Etym: [F., fr. OF. toquier to touch, F. toquer (originally, a dialectic form of F. toucher) + seint (for sein) a bell, LL. signum, fr. L. signum a sign, signal. See Touch, and Sign.]
Defn: An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of
alarm.
The loud tocsin tolled their last alarm. Campbell.
TOD Tod (tôd), n. Etym: [Akin to D. todde a rag, G. zotte shag, rag, a tuft of hair, Icel. toddi a piece of a thing, a tod of wool.]
1. A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump. [R.] "An ivy todde." Spenser. The ivy tod is heavy with snow. Coleridge.
2. An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.
3. A fox; — probably so named from its bushy tail. The wolf, the tod, the brock. B. Jonson. Tod stove, a close stove adapted for burning small round wood, twigs, etc. [U.S.] Knight.
TOD
Tod, v. t. & i.
Defn: To weigh; to yield in tods. [Obs.]
TO-DAY
To-day", adv. Etym: [AS. to dæg. See To, prep., and Day.]
Defn: On this day; on the present day.
Worcester's horse came but to-day. Shak.