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tion also-yiz. after three repetitions of 'tontara, tontara, tontara,' they add a ton-tay; their tay being of the same length as tone, which terminated almost every recheat. Tara would seem the feminine of taron, when used substantively; probably the lady and lord of the mansion in which the hunters caroused:

For, no joys can compare

To hunting of the hare;
Sing Tara,"

Echo, in mezzo voce-" and Tontaron."

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Sing Tara"-Echo, "and Tontaron,"
Both voices aloud,

"Sing Tara, my brave boys, and Tontaron,"

The tara, however, may have been older than taron, or tavon, in some parts of the empire of G. B.: among the Celts of Ireland, Tara was the baronial castle, or seat; and the large hall was, in like manner, Tara, where the lord or petty king, gave audience, settled disputes, awarded justice (in aula regia) caroused his retainers after hunting, and heard music:

The harp that once through Tara's halls.

The soul of music shed,

Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls

As if that soul had fled.

Here, of course, the horn was heard in every variety of modulation, with its 'ton, ton, ton, tara; tontara, tontara-tone. Rory, king of Connaught, and Brian B’ru, had their assemblages of chiefs, called Tara-a council, or parliament. Tom Moore sings

No more to chiefs and ladies bright

The harp of Tara swells,

The chord alone that breaks at night
Its tale of ruin tells.

Tools-house-breaking implements, or otherwise.

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Too much of one thing is good for nothing,' is understandable; but Paddy has turned the latter word into something,' by which he means a grate big bating.' Topper (a)-ring; a flush hit high on the upper works; applied also, to a blow with a stick on the head; so 'give him a topper for luck, and another for me.'

Topping-the upper covering; and a topper is a hat, the head sometimes, and the roof of a house always. Topping wit' is Attical, and a topping number' at a printingoffice, is that quantity which the printer takes off to his own cheek, surreptitiously.

Tories-a political party, originally attached to the exiled family, and the principle of governing single-handed, or corruptly intolerant of sectarians, lovers of tythes and bell-ringing, of pageants, and pluralities-ubiquity itself. "Come all ye tory citizens, Ye radicals and whigs;

Join all your famous companies,

And merry be as grigs."

Supposed to be a corruption of tow-row,' a soldier of the guards or grenadiers-of whom, in Marlborough's time, a song was sung with this burden:

Sing Tow, row, row, row, row, row,

The British grenadiers;

Tot-the whole; from totius (Latin). By amplification 'tis. said, I'll take the whole tot.' Mr. Hook says,

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"There's Hume, with his tots and his vots

Gaffer Grey

Tout-(v.) to watch. Touting--is eying the women generally, or spoiling an amour, platonically. 'Tis extended to stagging,' also.

Town-London is Town,' without the article, and is in fact, three towns, viz. London (the city proper) Westminster, and the borough of Southwark, or Tripoliwithout taking in to estimate the out-lying parishes. This is the district for seeing life in its varieties, as the present work attests. A man in town,' is in cash-' out of town,' without blunt.

Trade. Swindlers of goods, inquire about the state of trade
to-day?' very much like regular paying persons. 'What
trade are you doing? I have a prospect of doing some-
thing, or have a thing in hand,' is the slangery of this
species of rogue. Free-trade-smuggling; and so is
Fair-trade. Thus called from that space, which was
marked out in war-time, by the French in certain ports, for
our smugglers' resort and purchase of contraband goods,
and called la foire, or fair-ground.
Trail-(chase;) scent laid upon the ground. A dead hare
being dragged along leaves trail for harriers. The scent
of the living hare is likewise trail.
Oleum Origanum
(vulgo, oil of rignum) makes a good artificial scent, or
drag-and is good for entering young hounds.

If some staunch hound with his authentic voice
Avow the recent trail, the jostling tribe

Attend his call.

Training-animals that are pretty much exposed to excesses in their manner of living, require to be put in training when they are about to take strong exercise. Men, horses, and dogs are trained before fighting or running. Bleeding (if feverish) purging, and sweating, get rid of the surplus which overcharges the system, and impair its functions. Generous, but not heating food is to follow; no flatulent drink; all being given at regular intervals. Regular exercise, running a heat every morning, and a breathing in the evening, rubbing down the body and limbs much-the horse with the hand and wisps of hay, the man with cloths. The latter must fight his trainer at noon, twice at least, with the gloves; the former must be tried against other horses, and if the actual race is to be in the north country, he must be taught the false starts,' usual to those parts. N. B. Little sleep and much moderation; even training may be carried to excess. The good effects of training are soon visible on the cuticle; horses showing a fine coat, men fair skin without scorbutic spots, having thrown off the hair which those spots engender. Hard living, and a cold country, 'tis known, produce hair upon the body, which pugilists lose by training. One of Blackwood's people (No. 72. p. 87.) says he was 'covered with the long hair that boys come home with at the Christmas holidays, from a Yorkshire cheap academy.' Trained-off-weakness of body, inefficient athletic: an animal without sufficient stamina to bear hard training, gets worse for the above prescribed mode of living and trains off. Training upwards-is done, when the subject is already too low in habit, by means of nutricious diet: avoid bleeding and sweating; let the exercise be little, steady, and congenial. The fighting men stand in need of training up; as often as they do the contrary. Tramp-(the); travelling a-foot.

I'll tramp it for trade'— • Out upon the tramp. Said of mechanics who go from town to town for employment.

Transmogrify to alter, to change. A Transmogrifier; one who so changeth the works and the cases of watches, that the real owners cannot recognise their property.

Traps-hired constables; probably an abbreviation of to intrap, to ensnare. See Nose.

To Travel-to go, or be sent, beyond sea, he is on his travels. The high-go bontonian says, 'declare I must travvil, onnor.

Tread-mill-an invention we owe to the Chinese, who raise water by this means, and it is now adopted in these realms for the amusement of such philanthropic lads of the village,' as undertake the disposition of other people's effects, without leave. See Cubit, Round-about. The Radicals declare it to have been set up "on Rot-a-Tory principles."

Trente une apres-at rouge et noir; the advantage taken by the bank of the punters, for profit, and as sett-off for the refreshments, &c. It looks like three per cent. upon the winnings, but is in fact about seven-arithmetically proven. Trick-at cards; the play round at whist, for example; and the odd trick occurs the thirteenth time of so playing round. A Trick-a cheatery. Tricks on cards'-in cutting and shuffling dexterously, so as to produce certain results. Tricks upon travellers,' cannot be practised safely, they being usually up to snuff. Tricks of youth,' leave us in old age, though every Senex pretends that he has left the tricks. Nestor sagely observed,

Age, with a pox will come apace;
But dear experience can't be gotten,

"Till we 're with tricks of youth half rotten. Triponions-a small lot of persons fond of cows' stomachs, and the most pungent of edible roots; who take an occasional snap at Tom Rees's coffee-panny in the Strand.Card of invitation: "The Triponions congregate to masticate, to vocalise, and fumigate;

Thomas Rees,

At his ease,

A fine treat,
About eight,

Nought gaudy but neat."

Trudjon-Trew-john, a Trojan. A hardy indomptable person; alluding to the twelve years' siege of Troy. Trull-the lowest state of prostitution.

Trump-he is one who sticks by a poor friend in distress, who scorns dirty actions and littleness of spirit, who diffuseth happiness around, maugre the difficulty of execution. In ring affairs, he is a trump who stands up to his man like a Trudjon.

Try-back-an order or command given to a dog, to go over the same ground again, for game, as in beating a gorse for a fox. Try-back-is said to a talkative person who may be flinging the hatchet a little.

Try-on-and trying it on. An essay or endeavour to do a thing. Here's a queer shilling; I'll try it on with the landlord,' 'Vell, my customer, you tried it on tolerably tightish, but it voud'nt fit, ye see.'

Tuck-out-plenteous fare at dinner or supper. See Blow-out. Tulip-fine habiliments of various colours and strong ones, compose the tulip. Jack Cooper, evolved ex carcera a tulip of no common colour,' vide Fancy Gaz. 117. Ah! Jack Atcherley, how are é my tulip? Tulips compared to Swells, are what gilt gingerbread is to a gilded sign-board; the one fades soon, the other is at least intelligent to the last. See Corinthian, Gentleman, Swell. Tumbler-a cart. 6

To shove the tumbler;' to be whipped

at the cart's-tail. Turf-(the). That species of sport which consists in running horses against each other, as trial of their speed or bottom; and these races are either matches (of two) or for sweepstakes of three or more. It is an improvement, or rather a refinement, upon the runs experienced in the chase; hunters stakes,' by their full weights and lengthy courses, assimilating nearest to that earliest sport of the field. Name derived from the verdure-turf; that at Newmarket being the finest, most extended, and various in the island-empire-which is the mother-country of turf-sports, of large stakes and great matches, and the only residence of round-betting.

Races are held in France, of royal horses mostly; but devoid of emulation, except in the animals alone-spunkless. Occasionally, at Petersburgh, as in most of the British ultra-marine possessions, and, before the dis-union, in North-America. Proceeding upwards in the enumeration, Ireland comes next in importance, their stakes being minor imitations of those in England; yet they there dispense with sixteen king's plates, whilst all England has only twenty-one, and but two are given in Scotland. This last mentioned portion of the kingdom stands forward next in order as to spirit, amount, and execution, though less in number than Ireland; whilst York is inferior only to Newmarket, Epsom next after York as to totality of sums run for; and Ascot, for great resort, and the attendance of royalty, has acquired the appellation of royal races. Doubtless to these latter, Somervile alludes in his didactic Poem, The Chase, Book II..