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   Toy , n. [D. tuid tools, implements, stuff, trash, speeltuig playthings, toys; akin to G. zeug stuff, materials, MNG. ziuc, Icel. tygi gear; all ultimately from the root of E. tug, v. t.; cf. G. zeugen to beget, MHG. ziugen to beget, make ready, procure. See Tug, v. t.]
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   A plaything for children; a bawble.
   Cowper.
   
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   A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.
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   They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of gold and pearl.
   Abr. Abbot.
   
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   A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
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   To fly about playing their wanton toys.
   Spenser.
   
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   What if a toy take 'em in the heels now, and they all run away.
   Beau. & Fl.
   
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   Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.
   Drayton.
   
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   Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.
   Milton.
   
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   To dally thus with death is no fit toy.
   Spenser.
   
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   An old story; a silly tale.
   Shak.
   
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   [Probably the same word.] A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch. [Scot.] “Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid.”  
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   Toy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. toyed ; p. pr. & vb. n. toying.] To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
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   To toy, to wanton, dally, smile and jest.
   Shak.
   
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   Toy, v. t. To treat foolishly. [Obs.] E. Dering (1576).
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