| Too | 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 ] |
| Tool | 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 ] |
| Tool | 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 ] |
