torques (torkwez)

[L.: see A Dolphin haurient torque.] 1. Same as torque, 1.— torquett, a. An obsolete form of torqued. torquist, n. [L.: see torque.] A torque. You have noe le e surpris'd then oblig'd mee by your account of the Torquis ,.. the most ancient and most akin to it of all that I have seen being a chaine of the same metall of about six hundred yeare old, taken out of Edward the Confe ors Monument at Westminster. Samuel Pepys (Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 211). tor read or, n. See toreador . torrefaction (tor-e-fak's hon), n. [F. torré faction , L. torrefacere , dry by heat: see tor refy.] The act or operation of torrefying; the state of being torrefied. I know at this time a celebrated toast, whom I allow to ence of her admirers will give a torrent of ki es to her cat. Add is on, Tatler, No. 121. Erasmus, that great injured name, Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous age. Pope , E ay on Criticism, 1. 695.