_Robin Toodle_, known as “The Biler,” or “Rob the Grinder,” eldest son of Mrs. Toodle, wet-nurse of Paul Dombey. Mr. Dombey gets Robin into an institution called “The Charitable Grinders,” where the worst part of the boy’s character is freely developed. Robin becomes a sneak, and enters the service of James Carker, manager of the firm of Dombey and Son. On the death of Carker, Robin enters the service of Miss Lucretia Tox.--C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_ (1846). =Toom Tabard= (“_empty jacket_”), a nickname given to John Balliol, because his appointment to the sovereignty of Scotland was an empty name. He had the royal robe or jacket, but nothing else (1259, 1292-1314). =Tooth Worshipped= (_A_). The people of Ceylon worship the tooth of an elephant; those of Malabar, the tooth of a monkey. The Siamese once offered a Portuguese 700,000 ducats for the redemption of a monkey’s tooth. =Tooth-picks.= The Romans used tooth-picks made of mastic wood, in preference to quills; hence, Rabelais says that Prince Gargantua “picked his teeth with mastic tooth-pickers” (s’escuroit les dents avecques ung trou de lentisce), bk. i. 23. Lentiscum melius; sed si tibi frondea cuspis Defuerit, dentes, penna, levare potes. Martial, _Epigrams_, xx. 24. =Toots= (_Mr._), an innocent, warm-hearted young man, just burst from the bonds of Dr. Blimber’s school, and deeply in love with Florence Dombey. He is famous for blushing, refusing what he longs to accept, and for saying, “Oh, it is of no consequence.” Being very nervous, he never appears to advantage, but in the main, “there were few better fellows in the world.” “I assure you,” said Mr. Toots, “really I am dreadfully sorry, but it’s of no consequence.”--C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_, xxviii. (1846). =Topas= (_Sir_), a native of Poperyng, in Flanders; a capital sportsman, archer, wrestler, and runner. Chaucer calls him “Sir Thopas” (_q.v._). _Topas_ (_Sir_). Sir Charles Dilke was so called by the _Army and Navy Gazette_, November 25, 1871 (1810-1869). =Topham= (_Master Charles_), usher of the black rod.--Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.). =Topsy=, a young slave-girl, who never knew whether she had either father or mother, and being asked by Miss Ophelia St. Clare, how she supposed she came into the world, replied, “I ’spects I growed.”--Harriet Beecher Stowe, _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ (1852). =Tor= (_Sir_), the natural son of King Pellinore, and the wife of Aries, the cowherd. He was the first of the knights of the Round Table.--Sir. T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, i. 24 (1470).