These are the meanings of the letters SOTAT when you unscramble them.
- Stoat (n.)
The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.
- Toast (v.)
A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
- Toast (v.)
Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.
- Toast (v.)
Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as \"The land we live in,\" \"The day we celebrate,\" etc.
- Toast (v. t.)
To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
- Toast (v. t.)
To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
- Toast (v. t.)
To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.