=Tomboy= (_Priscilla_), a self-willed, hoydenish, ill-educated romp, of strong animal spirits, and wholly unconventional. She is a West Indian, left under the guardianship of Barnacle, and sent to London for her education. Miss Priscilla Tomboy lives with Barnacle’s brother, old [Nicholas] Cockney, a grocer, where she plays boy-and-girl love with young Walter Cockney, which consists chiefly in pettish quarrels and personal insolence. Subsequently she runs off with Captain Sightly, but the captain behaves well by presenting himself next day to the guardian, and obtaining his consent to marriage.--_The Romp_ (altered from Bickerstaff’s _Love in the City_). =Tomès= [_Tō-may_], one of the five physicians called in by Sganarelle to consult on the malady of his daughter, Lucinde (2 _syl._). Being told that a coachman he was attending was dead and buried, the doctor asserted it to be quite impossible, as the coachman had been ill only six days, and Hippocrătês had positively stated that the disorder would not come to its height till the fourteenth day. The five doctors meet in consultation, talk of the town gossip, their medical experience, their visits, anything, in short, except the patient. At length the father enters to inquire what decision they had come to. One says Lucinde must have an emetic, M. Tomès says she must be blooded; one says an emetic will be her death, the other that bleeding will infallibly kill her. _M. Tomès_, Si vous ne faites saigner tout à l’heure votre fille, c’est une personne morte. _M. Desfonandrès_, Si vous la faites saigner, elle ne sera pas en vie dans un quart-d’-heure. And they quit the house in great anger (act. ii. 4).--Molière, _L’Amour Médecin_ (1665). =Tomkins= (_Joseph_), secret emissary of Cromwell. He was formerly Philip Hazeldine, _alias_ Master Fibbet, secretary to Colonel Desborough (one of the parliamentary commissioners).--Sir W. Scott, _Woodstock_ (time, Commonwealth). =Tom´yris=, queen of the Massagētæ. She defeated Cyrus, who had invaded her kingdom, and, having slain him, threw his head into a vessel filled with human blood, saying, “It was blood you thirsted for; now take your fill!” Great bronze valves embossed with Tomyris. Tennyson, _The Princess_, v. [_I_] was shown the seath and cruel mangling made By Tomyris on Cyrus, when she cried, “Blood thou didst thirst for; take thy fill of blood!” Dantê, _Purgatory_, xii (1308). =Ton-Iosal= was so heavy and unwieldy that when he sat down it took the whole force of a hundred men to set him upright on his feet again.--_The Fiona_. If Fion was remarkable for his stature, ... in weight all yielded to the celebrated Ton-Iosal.--J. Macpherson, _Dissertation on Ossian_.