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TOY (an See also:adaptation of Du. tuig, tools, implements, ,stuff, speltuig, playthings, i.e. stuff to See also:play with, spelen, to play); a See also:child's plaything, also a trifle, a worthless, See also:petty See also:ornament, a gew-gaw, a See also:bauble. See also:Children's toys and playthings survive from the most remote periods of See also:man's See also:life on the See also:earth, though many so-called diminutive See also:objects made and used by See also:primitive man, sometimes classified as playthings, may have been See also:work-men's See also:models, votive offerings or sepulchral objects. A large number of wooden, earthenware, See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone or See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal dolls remain with which the children of See also:ancient See also:Egypt once played; thus in the See also:British Museum collection there is a See also:flat painted wooden See also:doll with strings of mud-beads representing the See also:hair, a See also:bronze woman doll bearing a pot, on her See also:head, an earthenware doll carrying and See also:nursing a child; some have movable jointed arms. There are also many toy animals, such as a painted wooden
See also:calf, ' a See also:porcelain
See also:elephant with a
rider; this once had
movable legs,which
have disappeared.
Balls are found
made of See also:leather
stuffed with hair,
chopped See also:straw and
other material, and
also of See also:blue porce-
lain or See also:papyrus.
Jointed doll's,
moved by strings,
were evidently
favourite play-
things of the See also:Greek
and See also:Roman chil-
dren, and small
modelsof See also:furniture,
chairs, tables, sets
of jugs painted with
scenes of children's
life survive from
both Greek and
Roman times.
Balls, tops, rattles
and the implements of numerous See also:games, still favourites in all countries and every See also:age, remain to show how little the amusements of children have changed.
See also Donn; Tor; PLAY; and for the See also:history of toys, with their varying yet unchanging fashions, see H. R. d'Allemagne, Histoire See also:des Jouets, and F. N. See also:Jackson, Toys of other Days (1908).
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