Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 54

Tort (a.) Stretched tight; taut.

Torta (n.) a flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.

Torteaus (pl. ) of Torteau

Torteau (n.) A roundel of a red color.

Torticollis (n.) See Wryneck.

Tortile (a.) Twisted; wreathed; coiled.

Tortility (n.) The quality or state of being tortile, twisted, or wreathed.

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

Tortion (n.) Torment; pain.

Tortious (a.) Injurious; wrongful.

Tortious (a.) Imploying tort, or privat injury for which the law gives damages; involing tort.

Tortiously (adv.) In a tortous manner.

Tortive (a.) Twisted; wreathed.

Tortoise (n.) Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata.

Tortoise (n.) Same as Testudo, 2.

Tortoise (n.) having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color.

Tortoise (n.) a tortoise-shell cat.

Tortricid (a.) Of or pertaining to Tortix, or the family Tortricidae.

Tortrix (n.) 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.

Tortrix (n.) A genus of tropical short-tailed snakes, which are not venomous. One species (Tortrix scytalae) is handsomely banded with black, and is sometimes worn alive by the natives of Brazil for a necklace.

Tortulous (a.) Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.

Tortuose (a.) Wreathed; twisted; winding.

Tortuoslty (n.) the quality or state of being tortuous.

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

Tortuous (a.) Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.

Tortuous (a.) Injurious: tortious.

Tortuous (a.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.

Torturable (a.) Capable of being tortured.

Torture (n.) Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

Torture (n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.

Torture (n.) The act or process of torturing.

Tortured (imp. & p. p.) of Torture

Torturing. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Torture

Torture (v. t.) To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

Torture (v. t.) To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.

Torture (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

Torture (v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow.

Torturer (n.) One who tortures; a tormentor.

Torturingly (adv.) So as to torture.

Torturous (a.) Involving, or pertaining to, torture.

Torulae (pl. ) of Torula

Torula (n.) A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.

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

Torulose (a.) Same as Torose.

Torulous (a.) Same as Torose.

Tori (pl. ) of Torus

Torus (n.) A lage molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding.

Torus (n.) One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolae.

Torus (n.) The receptacle, or part of the flower on which the carpels stand.

Torus (n.) See 3d Tore, 2.

Torved (a.) Stern; grim. See Torvous.

Torvity (a.) Sourness or severity of countenance; sterness.

Torvous (a.) Sour of aspect; of a severe countenance; stern; grim.

Tories (pl. ) of Tory

Tory (n.) A member of the conservative party, as opposed to the progressive party which was formerly called the Whig, and is now called the Liberal, party; an earnest supporter of exsisting royal and ecclesiastical authority.

Tory (n.) One who, in the time of the Revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of Great Britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown.

Tory (a.) Of ro pertaining to the Tories.

Toryism (n.) The principles of the Tories.

Toscatter (v. t.) To scatter in pieces; to divide.

Tose (v. t.) To tease, or comb, as wool.

Tosh (a.) Neat; trim.

Toshred (v. t.) To cut into shreads or pieces.

Tossed (imp. & p. p.) of Toss

Tost () of Toss

Tossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toss

Toss (v. t.) To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

Toss (v. t.) To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.

Toss (v. t.) To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.

Toss (v. t.) To agitate; to make restless.

Toss (v. t.) Hence, to try; to harass.

Toss (v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.

Toss (v. i.) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.

Toss (v. i.) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.

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

Toss (n.) A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.

Tossel (n.) See Tassel.

Tosser (n.) Ohe who tosser.

Tossily (adv.) In a tossy manner.

Tossing (n.) The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.

Tossing (n.) A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall.

Tossing (n.) A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.

Tosspot (n.) A toper; one habitually given to strong drink; a drunkard.

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

Tost () imp. & p. p. of Toss.

Tosto (a.) Quick; rapid.

Toswink (v. i.) To labor excessively.

Tot (n.) Anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.

Tot (n.) A drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint.

Tot (n.) A foolish fellow.

Tota (n.) The grivet.

Total (a.) Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.

Total (n.) The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.

Totality (n.) The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.

Totality (n.) The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge.

Totalize (v. t.) To make total, or complete;to reduce to completeness.

Totally (adv.) In a total manner; wholly; entirely.

Totalness (n.) The quality or state of being total; entireness; totality.

Toted (imp. & p. p.) of Tote

Toting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tote

Tote (v. t.) To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; -- a colloquial word of the Southern States, and used esp. by negroes.

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