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Tomcod
  1. A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the Northen United States; -- called also frostfish. See Illust. under Frostfish. (b) The kingfish. See Kingfish (a). (c) The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c).
Tomelet
  1. All small tome, or volume.
Tomfoolishness
  1. Same as tomfoolery.
Tomium
  1. The cutting edge of the bill of a bird.
Tomjohn
  1. A kind of open sedan used in Ceylon, carried by a single pole on men's shoulders.
Tommy
  1. Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.
  2. Type of gun
  3. A private soldier in the British Army.
Tommy Atkins
  1. Any white regular soldier of the British army; also, such soldiers collectively; -- said to be fictitious name inserted in the models given to soldiers to guide them in filling out account blanks, etc.
Tomnoddy
  1. A sea bird, the puffin.
Tom O' Bedlam
  1. Formerly, a wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospital, England; hence, a wandering mendicant, either mad or feigning to be so; a madman; a bedlamite.
Tomopteris
  1. A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa.