*toon*

n. A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carton (cf. It. cartone pasteboard, cartoon); fr. L. charta. See 1st card. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of “Puck.” [ 1913 Webster ]

3. same as comic strip. [ PJC ]

4. a motion picture consisting of a series of frames, each being a photograph of a drawing rather than a frame produced by filming a scene of true action, and in which the objects are displaced slightly in succeeding frames so as to give the appearance of motion when projected as a motion picture on the screen. The types of characters portrayed in such films are often similar or identical to those in a comic strip. [ PJC ]

n. One skilled in drawing cartoons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. or Sp. ducaton, fr. ducat. ] A silver coin of several countries of Europe, and of different values. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. feston (cf. Sp. feston, It. festone), prob. fr. L. festum festival. See Feast. ] 1. A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch. & Sculp.) A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Festooned p. pr. & vb. n. Festooning. ] To form in festoons, or to adorn with festoons. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, festoons. Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. fregatone: cf. F.frégaton. See Frigate. ] (Naut.) A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Melocoton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Melocoton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Sp. melocoton a kind of peach tree and its fruit, L. malum cotonium, or cotonea, or Cydonia, a quince, or quince tree, lit., apple of Cydonia, Gr. &unr_; &unr_;. See Quince. ] (Bot.) (a) A quince. (b) A kind of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow. [ Written also malacatoon, malacotune. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. mousqueton; cf. It. moschettone. ] 1. A short musket. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is armed with such a musket. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. peloton a ball of thread, a knot or group of men, a platoon, from pelote a ball formed of things wound round. See Pellet. ] (Mil.) (a) Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square. (b) Now, in the United States service, half of a company. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ponton (cf. It. pontone), from L. ponto, -onis, fr. pons, pontis, a bridge, perhaps originally, a way, path: cf. Gr. &unr_; path, Skr. path, pathi, panthan. Cf. Punt a boat. ] 1. (Mil.) A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A low, flat vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pontoon bridge, a bridge formed with pontoons. --
Pontoon train, the carriages of the pontoons, and the materials they carry for making a pontoon bridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The French spelling ponton often appears in scientific works, but pontoon is more common form. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act, art, or process of constructing pontoon bridges. “Army instruction in pontooning.” Gen. W. T. Shermah. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. poulpeton, poupeton, a sort of ragout. ] A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit. [ Obs. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Same as Rattoon, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rattan cane. [ Obs. ] Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. Same as Rattoon, v. i. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. retoño. ] One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Rattooned p. pr. & vb. n. Rattooning. ] [ Cf. Sp. retoñar. ] To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane from the root of the previous year's planting. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Spermatoa [ NL., fr. Gr. spe`rma, -atos, seed + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; an egg. ] (Anat.) A spermoblast. -- Sper`ma*to"al a. Owen. [1913 Webster]

n. A spitbox; a cuspidor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sponton, esponton, It. spontone, spuntone. ] (Mil.) A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. testone. See Tester a coin. ] An Italian silver coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d. sterling, or about thirty cents. Homans. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. pl. of Toe. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hind. tun, tūn, Skr. tunna. ] (Bot.) The reddish brown wood of an East Indian tree (Cedrela Toona) closely resembling the Spanish cedar; also. the tree itself. [ 1913 Webster ]