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An instrument for determining the torque on a shaft, and hence the horse power of an engine, esp. of a marine engine of high power, by measuring the amount of twist of a given length of the shaft. Called also torsimeter, torsiometer, torsometer.

Of or pertaining to torsion; resulting from torsion, or the force with which a thread or wire returns to a state of rest after having been twisted round its axis; as, torsional force.

The cusk. See Cusk.

head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.

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

a flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.

A roundel of a red color.

See Wryneck.

Twisted; wreathed; coiled.

The quality or state of being tortile, twisted, or wreathed.

An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone.

Torment; pain. [Obs.] Bacon.

Injurious; wrongful. [Obs.] "Tortious power." Spenser.

In a tortous manner.

Twisted; wreathed. Shak.

Same as Testudo, 2. Box tortoise, Land tortoise, etc. See under Box, Land, etc. -- Painted tortoise. (Zoöl.) See Painted turtle, under Painted. -- Soft-shell tortoise. (Zoöl.) See Trionyx. -- Spotted tortoise. (Zoöl.) A small American fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus, or Nanemys, quttatus) having a blackish carapace o…

Of or pertaining to Tortix, or the family Tortricidæ.

Any one of numerous species of small moths of the family Tortricidæ, the larvæ of which usually roll up the leaves of plants on which they live; -- also called leaf roller.

Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.

Wreathed; twisted; winding. Loudon