Torgoch (n.) The saibling.
Torilto (n.) A species of Turnix (Turnix sylvatica) native of Spain and Northen Africa.
Torinese (a.) Of or pertaining to Turin.
Torinese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Turin; collectively, the people of Turin.
Torment (n.) An engine for casting stones.
Torment (n.) Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
Torment (n.) That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
tormented (imp. & p. p.) of Torment
tormenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Torment
Torment (v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.
Torment (v. t.) To pain; to distress; to afflict.
Torment (v. t.) To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
Torment (v. t.) To put into great agitation.
Tormenter (n.) One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.
Tormenter (n.) An executioner.
Tormentful (a.) Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating.
Tormentil (n.) A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.
Tormenting (a.) Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream.
Tormentise (n.) Torture; torment.
Tormentor (n.) One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures.
Tormentor (n.) An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
Tormentress (n.) A woman who torments.
Tormentry (n.) Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain.
Tormina (n. pl.) acute, colicky pains; gripes.
Torminous (a.) Affected with tormina; griping.
Torn () p. p. of Tear.
Tornadoes (pl. ) of Tornado
Tornado (n.) 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.
Tornariae (pl. ) of Tornaria
Tornaria (n.) The peculiar free swimming larva of Balanoglossus. See Illust. in Append.
Torose (a.) Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.
Torosity (n.) The quality or state of being torose.
Torous (a.) Torose.
Torpedinous (a.) Of or pertaining to a torpedo; resembling a torpedo; exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid.
Torpedoes (pl. ) of Torpedo
Torpedo (n.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
Torpedo (n.) An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up.
Torpedo (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore.
Torpedo (n.) A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.
Torpedo (n.) A kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it.
Torpedo (n.) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal.
Torpedo (n.) An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil.
Torpedo (n.) A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
Torpedo (v. t.) to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo.
Torpent (a.) Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid.
Torpescence (n.) The quality or state or being torpescent; torpidness; numbness; stupidity.
Toppescent (a.) Becoming torpid or numb.
Torpid (a.) Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb.
Torpid (a.) Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive.
Torpidity (n.) Same as Torpidness.
Torpidly (adv.) In a torpid manner.
Torpidness (n.) The qualityy or state of being torpid.
Torpified (imp. & p. p.) of Torpify
Torpifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Torpify
Torpify (v. t.) To make torpid; to numb, or benumb.
Torpitude (n.) Torpidness.
Torpor (n.) Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.
Torpor (n.) Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.
Torporific (a.) Tending to produce torpor.
Torquate (a.) Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck.
torquated (a.) Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.
Torque (n.) A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.
Torque (n.) That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces.
Torque (n.) A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis.
Torqued (a.) Wreathed; twisted.
Torqued (a.) Twisted; bent; -- said of a dolphin haurient, which forms a figure like the letter S.
Torques (n.) A cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar.
Torrefaction (n.) The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied.
Torrefied (imp. & p. p.) of Torrefy
Torrefying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Torrefy
Torrefy (v. t.) To dry by a fire.
Torrefy (v. t.) To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.
Torrefy (v. t.) To dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they are friable, or are reduced to the state desired.
Torrent (n.) A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
Torrent (n.) Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence.
Torrent (n.) Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
Torrential (a.) Alt. of Torrentine
Torrentine (a.) Of or pertaining to a torrent; having the character of a torrent; caused by a torrent .
Torricellian (a.) 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 (a.) Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.
Torrid (a.) Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.
Torridity (n.) Torridness.
Torridness (n.) The quality or state of being torrid or parched.
Torril (n.) A worthless woman; also, a worthless horse.
Torrock (n.) A gull.
Torsal (n.) A torsel.
Torse (n.) A wreath.
Torse (n.) A developable surface. See under Developable.
Torsel (n.) A plate of timber for the end of a beam or joist to rest on.
Torsibillty (n.) The tendency, as of a rope, to untwist after being twisted.
Torsion (n.) 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.
Torsion (n.) That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility.
Torsional (a.) 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 (n.) The cusk. See Cusk.
Torsk (n.) The codfish. Called also tusk.
Torsos (pl. ) of Torso
Torsi (pl. ) of Torso
Torso (n.) 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 (n.) Mischief; injury; calamity.
Tort (n.) Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury.