tolling

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TOLLING, participle present tense Causing to sound in a slow grave manner. 1. Taking away; removing. 2. Sounding, as a bell. TOLU BALSAM, noun Balsam of Tolu, a balsam produced from a tree growing in Tolu, in S. America.
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