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torquated

Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.

Torque

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

Torques

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

Torrefaction

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

Torrent

Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.

Torrentine Torrential

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

Torricellian

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.

Torrid

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

Torridness

The quality or state of being torrid or parched.

Torril

A worthless woman; also, a worthless horse.

Torsade

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

Torsel

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

Torsibillty

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

Torsion

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.

Torsional

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.

Torsk

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

Torso

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.

Tort

Stretched tight; taut.

Torta

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

Tortility

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

Tortilla

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

Tortoise

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

tortoise-shell

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.

Tortricid

Of or pertaining to Tortix, or the family Tortricidae.

Tortrix

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.

Tortulous

Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.

Tortuous

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

Torture

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

torture

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

Torturous

Involving, or pertaining to, torture.

Torula

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

Torulaform

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

Torved

Stern; grim. See Torvous.

Torvity

Sourness or severity of countenance; sternness.

Torvous

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

Tory

Of or pertaining to the Tories.

Toryism

The principles of the Tories.

Tose

To tease, or comb, as wool.

Toshred

To cut into shreds or pieces.

Toss

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

Tossing

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

Tosspot

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

Tossy

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

Tost

imp. p. p. of Toss.

Tot

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

Total

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

Totality

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

Totalizator

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

Totally

In a total manner; wholly; entirely.

Totalness

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

Totara

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.

Tote

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

Totear

To tear or rend in pieces.

Totem

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.

Totemic

Of or pertaining to a totem, or totemism.

Totemism

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

Totemist

One belonging to a clan or tribe having a totem.

Toter

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

Totipalmate

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

Totipalmi

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

Totter

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

Tottery

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

Tottle

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

Tottlish

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

Totty

Unsteady; dizzy; tottery.

Toty

A sailor or fisherman; -- so called in some parts of the Pacific.

Toucan

Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.

Touch

The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.

touch on

To mention briefly, or in passing.

touch up

To make minor improvements in, especially in the appearance.

touch up paint

A paint applied to small areas of a painted surface, to cover small blemishes, especially on an automobile.

Touch-box

A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.

Touch-me-not

See Impatiens. Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.

Touch-needle

A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.

Touch-paper

Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.

Touchback

The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.

Touchdown

The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal; also the score (6 points) resulting from such a play.

Touchhole

The vent of a cannon or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.

Touchiness

The quality or state of being touchy; peevishness; irritability; irascibility.

Touching

The sense or act of feeling; touch.

Touchstone

Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.

Touchy

Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.

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