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A torsel. Knight.

A wreath.

A plate of timber for the end of a beam or joist to rest on. Gwilt

The tendency, as of a rope, to untwist after being twisted.

any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility. Angle of torsion (of a curve) (Geom.), the indefinitely small angle between two consecutive osculating planes of a curve of double curvature. -- Moment of torsion (Mech.) the moment of a pair of equal and opposite co…

A torsion balance used for measuring electric attraction or repulsion.

A galvanometer in which current is measured by torsion.

That part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended.

An autographic torsion meter.

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.