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noun
Tod  n.  
1.
A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump. (R.) "An ivy todde." "The ivy tod is heavy with snow."
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."
Tod stove, a close stove adapted for burning small round wood, twigs, etc. (U. S.)





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"Tod" Quotes from Famous Books



... a situation, an event. He could be pathetic, ironic, playful, mordant, musing, at will. He was sure in his tone, was low-German in "Till Eulenspiegel," courtly and brilliant in "Don Juan," noble and bitterly sarcastic in "Don Quixote," childlike in "Tod und Verklaerung." His orchestra was able to accommodate itself to all the folds and curves of his elaborate programs, to find equivalents for individual traits. It is not simply "a man," or even "an amatory hero" that is portrayed in "Don Juan." It is no vague symbol for the poet ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld
... made up the furniture in the room. A small blaze of fire in the old-fashioned soft coal grate gave a faint light. Cousin Charley whistled a time or two, and Lint Dutton, the son of the leading dry goods merchant of the town; and Tod Livingston, the son of the dry goods man's head clerk, put ...
— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field
... still talking, his stick waving furiously. "It's railin' agen this, and rowin' agen that: it's Socialism and Anarchism and some other rubbishy ism every Sabbath. Man, why can the crater no preach the Gospel? Aye, an' we had a half an oor o' havers aboot infidelity last Sabbath. Tod! Naebody in the Glen kenned what infidelity was till he cam' except mebby yon lad o' Silas Todd's, an' ...
— Duncan Polite - The Watchman of Glenoro • Marian Keith


Words linked to "Tod" :   unaccompanied, Great Britain, weight, United Kingdom, weight unit, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland


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