TOY  (an

adaptation of Du. tuig, tools, implements, ,stuff, speltuig, playthings, i.e. stuff to play with, spelen, to play); a child's plaything, also a trifle, a worthless, petty ornament, a gew-gaw, a bauble . Children's toys and playthings survive from the most remote periods of man's life on the earth, though many so-called diminutive objects made and used by primitive man, sometimes classified as playthings, may have been work-men's models, votive offerings or sepulchral objects . A large number of wooden, earthenware, stone or metal dolls remain with which the children of ancient Egypt once played; thus in the British Museum collection there is a flat painted wooden doll with strings of mud-beads representing the hair, a bronze woman doll bearing a pot, on her head, an earthenware doll carrying and nursing a child; some have movable jointed arms . There are also many toy animals, such as a painted wooden calf, ' a porcelain elephant with a rider; this once had movable legs,which have disappeared . Balls are found made of leather stuffed with hair, chopped straw and other material, and also of blue porce- lain or papyrus . Jointed doll's, moved by strings, were evidently favourite play- things of the Greek and Roman chil- dren, and small modelsof furniture, chairs, tables, sets of jugs painted with scenes of children's life survive from both Greek and Roman times . Balls, tops, rattles and the implements of numerous games, still favourites in all countries and every age, remain to show how little the amusements of children have changed . See also Donn; Tor; PLAY; and for the history of toys, with their varying yet unchanging fashions, see H . R. d'Allemagne, Histoire des Jouets, and F . N . Jackson, Toys of other Days (1908) .