torquatella

[Mod. Lat., from torques.] [TORQUE.] Zool.: The sole genus (with a single species, Torquatella typic a ), of the family Tor qua tell ide, founded on a specimen discovered by Prof. Ray Lankester at Naples. Body elongate-ovate, nearly twice as long as broad, rounded posteriorly; the anterior membranous frill highly expansile, its front margin abruptly truncate or emarginate, its surface obliquely plicate; dimensions unrecorded. tor-qua-těl'-li-dæ, s. pl . [Mod. Lat. torqua tell(a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ .] Zool .: A family of Peritricha (q.v.). Animalcules free-swimming, without a lorica, more or le ovate; the anterior ciliary wreath replaced by a membranous extensile and contractile collar-like structure, perforated centrally by the oral aperture. ( Kent .) torque (que as k) (1), subst. [Latin torques =a twisted neck-chain, from torqueo =to twist.] Archæology: A twisted collar of gold, or other metal, worn around the neck in ancient times by the people of Asia and the north of Europe, and appar. ently forming a great part of the wealth of the wearer. Among the ancient Gauls gold torques appear to have been so abundant that about 223 B. C. Flam in i us Nepos erected to Jupiter a golden trophy made from the torques of the conquered Gauls. ( Florus , lib. ii., ch. iv.) The name of the Torquati, a family of the Manlian Gens, was derived from their ancestor, T. Manlius, having in B. C. 361 slain Wed more, Somerset, a gigantic Gaul in single com England. bat, whose torque he took Torque, found at from the dead body and placed on his own neck. Many examples of gold torques have been found in known as funicular, in which the metal is twisted, pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, torque with a plain, nearly cylindrical portion at both ends, which are turned back in opposite directions, so that each end terminates in a kind of hook by which the torque was fastened. Bronze torques are, as a rule, thicker and bulkier in their proportions than those of gold, and the ends are usually left straight, or but slightly hooked over so as to interlock. to torque (que as k) (2), subst . (Lat. torqueo twist.] Mech .: A force which tends to produce torsion around an axis. It is generally expre ed in units of pounds of pull exerted at the end of a lever one foot long.