Affected with tormina; griping.

p. p. of Tear.

A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone-- twister -->.

The peculiar free swimming larva of Balanoglossus. See Illust. in Append.

Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.

The quality or state of being torose.

Torose.

Of or pertaining to a torpedo; resembling a torpedo; exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid.

to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo.

One skilled in the theory or use of torpedoes; also, one who favors the use of torpedoes.

Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid.

The quality or state or being torpescent; torpidness; numbness; stupidity.

Becoming torpid or numb.

An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.

Same as Torpidness.

In a torpid manner.

The qualityy or state of being torpid.

To make torpid; to numb, or benumb.

Torpidness.

Tending to produce torpor.

Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck.

Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.

A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.

Wreathed; twisted.

A cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar.

The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied.

To dry by a fire.

Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.

Of or pertaining to a torrent; having the character of a torrent; caused by a torrent .

Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer.

Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.

Torridness.

The quality or state of being torrid or parched.

A worthless woman; also, a worthless horse.

A gull.

A twisted cord; also, a molded or worked ornament of similar form.

A torsel.

A plate of timber for the end of a beam or joist to rest on.

The tendency, as of a rope, to untwist after being twisted.

The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction.

Of or pertaining to torsion; resulting from torsion, or the force with which a thread or wire returns to a state of rest after having been twisted round its axis; as, torsional force.

The cusk. See Cusk. The codfish. Called also tusk.

The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.

Stretched tight; taut.

a flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.

A roundel of a red color.

See Wryneck.

Twisted; wreathed; coiled.

The quality or state of being tortile, twisted, or wreathed.

An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone.

Torment; pain.

Injurious; wrongful.

In a tortous manner.

Twisted; wreathed.

Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata.

Having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color. a tortoise-shell cat.

Of or pertaining to Tortix, or the family Tortricidae.

Any one of numerous species of small moths of the family Tortricidae, the larvae of which usually roll up the leaves of plants on which they live; -- also called leaf roller.

Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.

Wreathed; twisted; winding.

Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.

Capable of being tortured.

Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

One who tortures; a tormentor.

So as to torture.

Involving, or pertaining to, torture.

A chain of special bacteria. A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.

Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci.

Same as Torose.

Same as Torose.

Stern; grim. See Torvous.

Sourness or severity of countenance; sternness.

Sour of aspect; of a severe countenance; stern; grim.

Of or pertaining to the Tories.

The principles of the Tories.

To scatter in pieces; to divide.

To tease, or comb, as wool.

Neat; trim.

To cut into shreds or pieces.

A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.

See Tassel.

One who tosses.

In a tossy manner.

The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.

A toper; one habitually given to strong drink; a drunkard.

Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud; contemptuous; scornful; affectedly indifferent; as, a tossy commonplace.

imp. p. p. of Toss.

Quick; rapid.

To labor excessively.

To mark with the word /tot/; as, a totted debt. See Tot, n.

The grivet.

To bring to a total; also, to reach as a total; to amount to.

The total.

Same as Totalizator.

The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.

Act of totalizing, or state of being totalized.

A machine for registering and indicating the number and nature of bets made on horse races. Called also totalizer.

To use a totalizator.

Same as Totalizator.

In a total manner; wholly; entirely.

The quality or state of being total; entireness; totality.

A coniferous tree (Podocarpus totara), next to the kauri the most valuable timber tree of New Zealand. Its hard reddish wood is used for furniture and building, esp. in wharves, bridges, etc. Also mahogany pine.

The entire body, or all; as, the whole tote.

To tear or rend in pieces.

A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan; also, the object or animal itself, considered as an symbol of the family.

Of or pertaining to a totem, or totemism.

The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem.

One belonging to a clan or tribe having a totem.

The stone roller. See Stone roller (a), under Stone.

Having all four toes united by a web; -- said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves.

A division of swimming birds including those that have totipalmate feet.

Omnipresence.

Omnipresent.

To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as, an old man totters with age.

One who totters.

In a tottering manner.

Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking.

To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner; to toddle; to topple.

Trembling or tottering, as if about to fall; unsteady.