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   Tod (tŏd), 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.
   
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   The ivy tod is heavy with snow. Coleridge.
   
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   2. An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.
   
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   3. A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail.
   
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   The wolf, the tod, the brock. B. Jonson.
   
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   Tod stove, a close stove adapted for burning small round wood, twigs, etc. [U. S.]  Knight.
   
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   Tod, v. t. & i. To weigh; to yield in tods. [Obs.]
   
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