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noun

Tom n. The knave of trumps at gleek. (Obs.)

Tom n.

A familiar contraction of Thomas, a proper name of a man.

The male of certain animals; often used adjectively or in composition; as, tom turkey, tomcat, etc.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... make such arrangements as you can best manage on deck, and we will have our guest up when all is ready." In a short time Tom King ...

— Ben Burton - Born and Bred at Sea • W. H. G. Kingston

... grown older I have read that wonderful story of Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom; he reminded me of Darry then, and now I never think of the one without thinking of the other. But Darry, having served a different class of people from Uncle Tom's first owners, had a more polished style of manners, which I should almost call courtly; and he was besides ...

— Daisy • Elizabeth Wetherell

... the top of the cliff where one corner of the Interpreter's hut was just visible above the edge of the rock. And then, as the quick light of a smile drove away the trouble shadows, she said to the servant, "Tom, you will take those children for a ride in the car. Take them wherever they wish to go, and return here for me. I shall be ready in ...

— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright

... of mbugu rags, which he deposited before me, dancing and singing again, then retreating and bringing some more, with a few plantains from a garden, when I was to eat, as kings lived upon flesh, and "poor Tom" wanted some, for he lived with lions and elephants in a hovel beyond the gardens, and his belly was empty. He was precisely a black specimen ...

— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke

... name has been read Gamgumu, Gaugum, and connected by Tom-kins with the Egyptian Augama, which he reads Gagama, in the lists of Thutmosis III. The Aramaean inscription on the statue of King Panammu shows that it must be read Gurgumu, and Sachau has identified this new name with that of Jurjum, which was the ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12) • G. Maspero

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