adv. [ The same word as to, prep. See To. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Over; more than enough; -- noting excess; as, a thing is too long, too short, or too wide; too high; too many; too much. [ 1913 Webster ]

His will, too strong to bend, too proud to learn. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Likewise; also; in addition. [ 1913 Webster ]

An honest courtier, yet a patriot too. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let those eyes that view
The daring crime, behold the vengeance too. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Too too, a duplication used to signify great excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

O that this too too solid flesh would melt. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such is not Charles his too too active age. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Also; likewise. See Also. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Take. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. Tool, v. t., 2. ] To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive. [ Colloq. ]

Boys on their bicycles tooling along the well-kept roads. Illust. American. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. tol, tool. AS. tōl; akin to Icel. tōl, Goth. taijan to do, to make, taui deed, work, and perhaps to E. taw to dress leather. √64. ] 1. An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, any instrument of use or service. [ 1913 Webster ]

That angry fool . . .
Whipping her horse, did with his smarting tool
Oft whip her dainty self. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A weapon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Him that is aghast of every tool. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A person used as an instrument by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was not made for a minion or a tool. Burks. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. tooled p. pr. & vb. n. tooling. ] 1. To shape, form, or finish with a tool. “Elaborately tooled.” Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To drive, as a coach. [ Slang, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Work performed with a tool. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mach.) the part that supports a tool-post or a tool. [ 1913 Webster ]

. a small closed structure in which tools are stored, often found in the back yard of a residence. [ { JC ]

. Hard steel, usually crucible steel, capable of being tempered so as to be suitable for tools. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. (Mach.) The part of a tool-rest in which a cutting tool is clamped. [ 1913 Webster ]