Now dial. [a. L. tōtum all, the whole, the initial T of which was one of the four letters inscribed on the teetotum: cf. F. toton, in Cotgr. and Dict. Acad., 1694–1740 totum.] = TEETOTUM, q.v.
[1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xxii. 74. He playis with totum and I with nichell.]
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Totum, a Whirl-bone, a kind of Die that is turned about.
1734. Chesterf., in Lett. C’tess Suffolk (1824), II. 116. A couple of totums set a spinning.
1825. Jamieson, Totum sb. 1, the game of Te-totum. [See Eng. Dial. Dict., TOTUM2.]
