Tohin
. The military system adopted in the municipal and momestic regimen of Russia.
“Peter the Great established what is here [in Russia] the ‘tchin,ʹ that is to say, he applied the military system to the general administration of the empire.”—De Custine: Russia, chap. vii.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.