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.”