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Work turned on a lathe; turnery.[Obs.] See Turnery. Evelyn.

A tournament. Bacon. At tilt or tourney or like warlike game. Spenser. We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work. Tennyson.

An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.

A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.

Turn; contour; figure.

sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year.

A pulling; a disturbance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] Shak. As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed. Spenser.

Same as Tousle. [Colloq.]

One who touses. [Prov. Eng.]

To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse. [Colloq.]

Tousled; tangled; rough; shaggy. [Colloq.]

To act as a tout. See 2d Tout. [Cant. Eng.]

All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts.

One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. [Colloq.] The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the police. Dickens.

See Touse. [Prov. Eng.]

To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.

An urchin who has soft, whitish hair. [Colloq.]

The act of towing.

A towel. [Obs.] Chaucer.