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[Latin tormentum =pain, from the supposed efficacy of the tormentil in curing tootache and diseases of the bowels.] Botany: A genus of Potent ill ide, now merged in Potentilla. Torment ill a officinal is and reptans are now Potentilla torment ill a and reptans . tor-ment-ing, pr . par . or a . [TORMENT, v .] tor-ment-Ing-ly, adv . [Eng. tormenting ; -ly .] In a tormenting manner; so as to torment; in a manner tending to cause anguish or torture. "He bounst and bet his hed tormentingly ." Gas coigne: Dan Bartholomew of Bathe. torpedo a smaller area, and generally le violent, though still sufficiently so to be highly dangerous. The term tornado is used specifically of rotating or spiral storms in the South Indian Ocean, and those on the coasts of Africa and North America. Turpin, the famous French inventor, proposed a plan for the prevention of the destructive work of tornadoes, It is a well-known fact that a waterspout at sea is at once di ipated by the firing of a cannon. Turpin contended that a tornado on land is the same sort of a natural phenomenon as a waterspout at sea, and may be destroyed in the same way. His plan was to build a series of towers, say 120 feet high and some 100 yards apart, along the southwestern part of the town to be protected. On top of each tower was to be some 200 pounds of high explosive so arranged with a windmill device that it would be automatically exploded by a wind approaching the intensity of a tornado. This, he claims, will destroy the tornado at once. tor-na-těl-la, s. [Mod. Lat., dim in. from Lat. torn us a turner's wheel, a lathe.] Zool. & Palæont . The type-genus of To rna tell ide (q.v.). Shell solid, ovate, with a conical, many-whorled spire; aperture long, narrow, rounded in front; outer lip sharp; columella with a strong, tortuous fold; operculum horny, elliptical, lamellar. Recent species sixteen, widely distributed in deep water. Fo il, seventy, from the Trias onward. Used also of any individual of the genus. tor-na-těl-11-dæ, pl . [Mod. Lat. tornatel (la); Latin fem. pl. adj. suffix -idœ.] To rna tell a. Zool. & Palæont .: A family of Tectibranch i at a (q. v.). Shell external, solid, spiral, or convoluted; sub-cylindrical; aperture, long and narrow: columella plaited; sometimes operculated. Animal with a flattened, disc-like head, and broad, obtuse tentacles; foot ample, with lateral and operculigerous lobes. The shells of this family are chiefly extinct; they commence in the Coal-measures and attain their maximum in the Chalk.