Toy /(toi)/

1. A plaything for children; a bawble.
2. A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.

   They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of gold and pearl.

3. A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.

   To fly about playing their wanton toys.

   What if a toy take 'em in the heels now, and they all run away.

   Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.

4. Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.

   To dally thus with death is no fit toy.

5. An old story; a silly tale.
6. A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch. [Scot.]

imp. & p. p. toyed; p. pr. & vb. n. toying

1. To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.

   To toy, to wanton, dally, smile and jest.

1. To treat foolishly. [Obs.]