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amidine (medicine) and toll(2) (iou)


amidine (medicine)


amidine


The monovalent radical -C(NH)-NH2.


toll(2) (iou)



toll noun1.
[Old English toll = Old High German zol (German Zoll), Old Norse tollr (masc.), with by-forms Old English toln, Old Frisian tol(e)ne, Old Saxon tolna (fem.), from medieval Latin toloneum alt. of late Latin teloneum from Greek telonion toll-house, from telones tax-collector, from telos tax.]
A charge, a payment, a tax, a duty; spec. (a) (obsolete exc. Hist.) a payment exacted by a feudal superior or Other authority as a tribute or in return for protection; (b) a fee, percentage, etc., taken by an agent effecting some transaction (as the collection of a tax or duty). Now chiefly as in sense 2 below. OE.
toll and team (Law, now Hist.) in Anglo-Saxon England, the right to charge toll together with the right of jurisdiction granted in a suit of team (see TEAM noun 7b).
Tennyson Tax and toll, From many an inland town and haven large. Ld Macaulay Forfeitures went to Sunderland. On every grant toll was paid to him.
A charge for permission to pass a barrier or to proceed along a road, over a bridge, etc. OE.
b. A charge or payment for provision of a service, as (a) (long obsolete exc. dial.) a proportion of the grain or flour ground by a miller, taken as payment for grinding; (b) a charge for the right to bring goods to or sell goods in a place, esp. a market. OE.
c. A charge for a telephone call, esp. a long-distance call. Chiefly N. Amer. L19.
fig. A cost; a loss; damage; esp. (the number or a list of) deaths or casualties resulting from a battle, natural disaster, etc. (rare before L19.) LME.
take a toll, take its toll cause or be accompanied by loss, damage, injury, etc., (foll. by of, on a person).
Listener A..programme aimed at reducing the toll on the roads. Times The death toll in the train disaster..could be more than 1,000.
Comb.: toll-bar a barrier across a road or bridge, where a toll is collected; toll-book: containing a register of animals or goods for sale at a market or fair and the tolls payable for them; toll-bridge: at which a toll is charged for the right to cross; toll call (a) a telephone call for which an individual charge was made; (b) N. Amer. a long-distance telephone call, a call between different telephone areas; toll-dish a dish or bowl for measuring the toll of grain at a mill; toll-farmer: of the tolls at a certain place (cf. FARMER noun 1); toll-free adjective & adverb (a) adjective exempt from payment of a charge or toll; (b) adverb without having to pay a charge; toll-gate: across a road preventing passage until a toll is paid; toll-gatherer a person who collects tolls, esp. = PUBLICAN noun1 1; toll-house a house, booth, etc., where tolls are collected, esp. a house by a toll-gate or toll-bridge; toll-keeper the keeper of a toll-gate or toll-house; tollman a man who collects tolls, the keeper of a toll-gate; toll plaza US a row of tollbooths on a toll-road; toll-road a road maintained by the tolls collected on it; toll TV = pay-Television s.v. PAY-; tollway US a highway for the use of which a charge is made; toll-taker a toll-collector.
toller noun1 (now rare) a toll-collector OE.