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To stand out, or be prominent.

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  1. v. i. To stand out, or be prominent.
  2. v. i. To peep; to look narrowly.
  3. v. t. To see; to spy.
  4. v. i. To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown.
  5. v. t. To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.
  6. n. a blast of a horn
  7. n. revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
  8. v. make a strident noise
  9. 1. To stand out, or be prominent. [Obs.] Howell. 2. To peep; to look narrowly. [Obs.] Latimer. For birds in bushes tooting. Spenser. To see; to spy. [Obs.] P. Plowman. To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown. "A tooting horn." Howell. Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches. Thackeray. To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.
  10. To see; to spy. [Obs.] P. Plowman.
  11. n:46/v:54 n. a blast of a horn