a. Obs. rare. Also 5 -ose. [f. TOIL sb.1 + -OUS.] a. Contentious, disputatious, wrangling. b. Full of toil; toilsome.
c. 1430. A. B. C. of Aristotle, in Babees Bk. (1868), 12. T to toilose, ne to talewijs, for temperaunce is beest.
c. 1520. Treat. Galaunt (W. de W.), 17. As tyrauntes and traytours, toyllous in moote.
1530. Palsgr., 327/2. Toylouse, full of toyle and labour.
