Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Toby (-'s)
Toby (-'s), proper n. [Gk Tobias > Heb. Tobiyah, God is good.]
Kitty; pussy; gray and white cat of the Dickinson family; (see ED's letters and Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night).
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