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noun

Tout n.

One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting. (Cant. Eng.)

One who gives a tip on a race horses for an expected compensation, esp. in hopes of a share in any winnings; usually contemptuous. (Cant, U. S.)

One who solicits custom, as a runner for a hotel, cab, gambling place. (Colloq.)

A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like. (Colloq.)

Tout n. In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.

Tout n. The anus. (Obs.)

verb

Tout v. t. (Horse Racing)

(a)

To spy out information about, as a racing stable or horse. (Cant, Eng.)

(b)

To give a tip on (a race horse) to a better with the expectation of sharing in the latter's winnings. (Cant, U. S.)

Toot v. i. (Written also tout)

To stand out, or be prominent. (Obs.)

To peep; to look narrowly. (Obs.) "For birds in bushes tooting."

Tout v. i.

To act as a tout. See 2d Tout. (Cant. Eng.)

To ply or seek for customers. (Prov. Eng.)

Tout v. i. (past & past part. touted; pres. part. touting)

To look narrowly; spy. (Scot. & Dial. Eng.)

(Horse Racing)

(a)

To spy out the movements of race horses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes. (Cant, Eng.)

(b)

To act as a tout; to tout, or give a tip on, a race horse. (Cant, U. S.)

Tout v. i. To toot a horn.

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Etymology of 'Tout'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... eut ete bien doux de prononger les moments de la voir encore, mais la sagesse demande que tout se fasse avec ordre; voila pourquoi notre chere enfant vous est confiee plus tot; que le seigneur l'accompagne et vous aussi, precieux amis; nous vous confions tous trois a la garde divine, et nous vous assurons encore ici de l'affection Chretienne qui unit nos ames ...

— Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel • John Yeardley

... means of the competing factions he tried to discover this great secret design. His researches were not confined to statesmen in authority, like Cecil, whom he characterizes in his candid Memoirs as 'tout mystere,' caring for no combination except so far as it might serve his individual political interests. He pursued his inquiries also among politicians out of power. They composed, he says, a 'Fourth Party,' with ...

— Sir Walter Ralegh - A Biography • William Stebbing

... to grow gradually calmer; he slept or pretended to do so, and the next morning he still affected to feel strange pains. Two days afterwards he tore off the first leaf of the letter and put an "e" to the word tout in the phrase "tout a vous."[*] He folded mysteriously the paper which contained the innocent forgery, sealed it, left his bedroom and called the maid, ...

— The Physiology of Marriage, Part II. • Honore de Balzac

... aurai point de depit, Qu'un autre me passe en merite Sur le gout et sur l'appetit, C'est l'avantage qui m'irrite. L'estomac est le plus grand bien, Sans lui les autres ne sont rien. Un grand coeur veut tout entreprendre, Un grand esprit veut tout comprendre; Les droits de l'estomac sont de bien digerer; Et dans les sentiments que me donne mon age, La beaute de l'esprit, la grandeur du courage, N'ont rien qu'a se ...

— Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, - the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century • Robinson [and] Overton, ed. and translation.

... an envelope, soft and fat with rich enclosures. He bade her wait a moment, and going into a little waiting-room counted the notes. The money was all there;—the full sum of L250. He must certainly go to New York. 'C'est tout en regle?' said Didon in a whisper as he returned to the hall. Sir Felix nodded his head, and ...

— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope

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