tod

n. [ Akin to D. todde a rag, G. zotte shag, rag, a tuft of hair, Icel. toddi a piece of a thing, a tod of wool. ] 1. A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump. [ R. ] “An ivy todde.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ivy tod is heavy with snow. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wolf, the tod, the brock. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tod stove, a close stove adapted for burning small round wood, twigs, etc. [ U. S. ] Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Toddled p. pr. & vb. n. Toddling ] [ Akin to tottle, totter. ] To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A toddling walk. Trollope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who toddles; especially, a young child. Mrs. Gaskell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formed from Hind. tā&unr_;ī the juice of the palmyra tree, popularly, toddy, fr. tā&unr_; the palmyra tree, Skr. tāla. ] 1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and is being made hot and sweetened. [ 1913 Webster ]

Toddy bird (Zool.), a weaver bird of the East Indies and India: -- so called from its fondness for the juice of the palm. --
Toddy cat (Zool.), the common paradoxure; the palm cat. [ 1913 Webster ]