tor

[Wel.=a bulge, a hill.] A high pointed rock or hill. It occurs frequently in place-names in the southwest of England, and especially in Devons hire, as Glastonbury Tor, Torbay, Torquay, . "Here are no tors , no coombes, hardly a grove, and no quaint or sudden contrasts in coloring."- Field , Dec. 28, cote, pt. ii., bk. iii., ch. xviii. 2. Proudly, disdainfully. B. As adj .: Eminent, great, gay, showy. "These topping lie guests be in number but ten." Tu er: Husbandry; April.