TORT

n. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Mischief; injury; calamity. [Obs.] That had them long opprest with tort. Spenser.

2.
n.

Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury. Executor de son tort. See under Executor. -- Tort feasor (Law), a wrongdoer; a trespasser. Wharton.

3.
a.

Stretched tight; taut. [R.] Yet holds he them with tortestrein. Emerson.

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