Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tom \Tom\, n.
   1. A familiar contraction of {Thomas}, a proper name of a
      man.

   2. The male of certain animals; -- often used adjectively or
      in composition; as, tom turkey, tomcat, etc.

Source : WordNet®

Thomas
     n 1: United States clockmaker who introduced mass production
          (1785-1859) [syn: {Seth Thomas}]
     2: United States socialist who was a candidate for president
        six times (1884-1968) [syn: {Norman Thomas}, {Norman
        Mattoon Thomas}]
     3: a radio broadcast journalist during World War I and World
        War II noted for his nightly new broadcast (1892-1981)
        [syn: {Lowell Thomas}, {Lowell Jackson Thomas}]
     4: Welsh poet (1914-1953) [syn: {Dylan Thomas}, {Dylan Marlais
        Thomas}]
     5: the Apostle who would not believe the resurrection of Jesus
        until he saw Jesus with his own eyes [syn: {Saint Thomas},
         {St. Thomas}, {doubting Thomas}, {Thomas the doubting
        Apostle}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Thomas
     
         A language compatible with the language
        {Dylan}(TM).  Thomas is NOT {Dylan}(TM).
     
        The first public release of a translator to {Scheme} by Matt
        Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at {Digital
        Equipment Corporation}'s {Cambridge Research Laboratory} runs
        (slowly) on {MIT}'s {CScheme}, DEC's {Scheme->C}, Marc
        Feeley's {Gambi}, {Macintosh}, {PC}, {Vax}, {MIPS}, {Alpha},
        {680x0}.
     
        {(ftp://gatekeeper.pa.dec.com/pub/DEC/Thomas)}.
     
        Mailing list: .
     
        ["Dylan(TM) an object-oriented dynamic language", {Apple
        Computer}, Eastern Research and Technology, April 1992].
     
        (1992-09-11)