As a noun tose
is cough.
As a verb toise is
.
tose
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l)
Verb
To pull apart or asunder; touse.
Derived terms
* (l)
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toise
English
Noun
(
en noun)
a former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres
:* 1997': the greater its speed, the less visible it grows, until at around a Thousand '''Toises per Minute, it vanishes entirely — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
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