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Torture
n.
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Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
Torture
n.
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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.
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The act or process of torturing.
Tortured
imp. & p. p.
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of Torture
Torturing.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Torture
Torture
v. t.
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To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
Torture
v. t.
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To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.
Torture
v. t.
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To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.
Torture
v. t.
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To keep on the stretch, as a bow.
Torturer
n.
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One who tortures; a tormentor.
Torturingly
adv.
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So as to torture.
Torturous
a.
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Involving, or pertaining to, torture.
Torulae
pl.
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of Torula
Torula
n.
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A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.
Torulaform
a.
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Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci.
Torulose
a.
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Same as Torose.
Torulous
a.
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Same as Torose.
Tori
pl.
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of Torus
Torus
n.
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A lage molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding.
Torus
n.
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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.
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The receptacle, or part of the flower on which the carpels stand.
Torus
n.
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See 3d Tore, 2.
Torved
a.
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Stern; grim. See Torvous.
Torvity
a.
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Sourness or severity of countenance; sterness.
Torvous
a.
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Sour of aspect; of a severe countenance; stern; grim.
Tories
pl.
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of Tory
Tory
n.
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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.
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One who, in the time of the Revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of Great Britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown.
Tory
a.
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Of ro pertaining to the Tories.
Toryism
n.
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The principles of the Tories.