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.
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Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.
Wreathed; twisted; winding.
the quality or state of being tortuous.
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.
Unsteady; dizzy; tottery.
A sailor or fisherman; -- so called in some parts of the Pacific.
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.
A small toucan.
The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.
To mention briefly, or in passing.
To make minor improvements in, especially in the appearance.
A paint applied to small areas of a painted surface, to cover small blemishes, especially on an automobile.
A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
See Impatiens. Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
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.
Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.
Capable of being touched; tangible.
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.
The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal; also the score (6 points) resulting from such a play.
The vent of a cannon or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
In a touchy manner.
The quality or state of being touchy; peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
The sense or act of feeling; touch.
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.
Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.
A person who is tough{7}; a ruffian; a thug; as, a cluster of neighborhood toughs hanging out on the corner.
See Tough-pitch (b).
The ruddy duck.
The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
To grow or make tough, or tougher.
Tough in a slight degree.
In a tough manner.
The quality or state of being tough.
The wood warbler.
The crested titmouse.
To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country.
Same as Turacou.
An ornamental firework which turns round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire.
One who makes a tour, or performs a journey, especially for pleasure.
A mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels.
A spinning wheel.
A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.
Work turned on a lathe; turnery.
To perform in tournaments; to tilt.
An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.
A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.
A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably Canna edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year.
A lithographic drawing or painting material of the same nature as lithographic ink. It is also used as a resistant in the biting-in process.
A pulling; a disturbance.
Same as Tousle.
One who touses.
To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
Tousled; tangled; rough; shaggy.
The anus.
All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts.
One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.
See Touse.
To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.
A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.
An urchin who has soft, whitish hair.
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