a. Obs. [app. f. TOZE v.1 + -Y. But cf. TOSY.] Soft like teased wool. Hence † Toziness, softness.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tozy, soft like Wooll.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Tozyness, softness, like tozed Wooll.
absol. 1824. Scott, St. Ronan’s, xx. I can tell it [a shawl] to be a real tozie. Ibid. That tozie now will keep its colour while there is a rag of it left.
