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A tube fixed below or near the water line through which a torpedo is fired, usually by a small charge of gunpowder. On torpedo vessels the tubes are on deck and usually in broadside, on larger vessels usually submerged in broadside and fitted with a movable shield which is pushed out from the vessel's side to protect t…

A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.

One skilled in the theory or use of torpedoes; also, one who favors the use of torpedoes.

Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid. [Obs.] Evelyn.

The quality or state or being torpescent; torpidness; numbness; stupidity.

Becoming torpid or numb. Shenstone.

Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb. Without heat all things would be torpid. Ray.

Same as Torpidness.

In a torpid manner.

The qualityy or state of being torpid.

To make torpid; to numb, or benumb.

Torpidness. [Obs.] "In a kind of torpitude, or sleeping state." Derham.

Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.

Tending to produce torpor.

Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck.

Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.

ly twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.

Wreathed; twisted. [R.]

A cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar.

The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied. Bp. Hall.