Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Toy \Toy\ (toi), n. [D. tuid tools, implements, stuff, trash,
   speeltuig playthings, toys; akin to G. zeug stuff, materials,
   MNG. ziuc, Icel. tygi gear; all ultimately from the root of
   E. tug, v. t.; cf. G. zeugen to beget, MHG. ziugen to beget,
   make ready, procure. See {Tug}, v. t.]
   1. A plaything for children; a bawble. --Cowper.

   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. --Milton.

            To dally thus with death is no fit toy. --Spenser.

   5. An old story; a silly tale. --Shak.

   6. [Probably the same word.] 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.'' --Sir W. Scott.