Toy n.
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. --Abr. Abbot.
3. A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
To fly about playing their wanton toys. --Spenser.
What if a toy take 'em in the heels now, and they all run away. --Beau. & Fl.
Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell. --Drayton.
4. Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.
To dally thus with death is no fit toy. --Spenser.
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.] “Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid.”