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Black tourmaline. [Written also shorl.]

Severe; violent; fierce. [Obs.] "In starke stours." [i. e., in fierce combats]. Chaucer.

does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop. The bird of Jove, stooped from his aëry tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. Milton.

See Stour, a. [Obs.]

The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of, as any part of the earth's surface, whether land or water; also, a measured plan and description of any portion of country, or of a road or line through it. Survey of dogs. See Court of regard, under Regard. -- Trigonometrical survey,…

y portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys. Geodetic surveying, geodesy. -- Maritime, or Nautical, surveying, that branch of surveying which determines t…

A small blunt-pointed bistoury, -- used in syringotomy.

ne of continuous maximum descent from any point on a land surface, or that cutting all contours and angles.

Mercutio's breast. Shak. Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast. Shak. But in this tournament can no man tilt. Tennyson. The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the Pope.

remarkable for the peculiar green and red pigments found in their feathers. [Written also touraco, and touracou.]

See Tourmaline.

Tourney. [Obs.] Chaucer. "In open turney." Spenser. Milton.

A treasurer; a keeper. "Tutour of your treasure." Piers Plowman.

ope, that of long oo, as in tool, and short oo, as in wood, answering to the French ou in tour. Etymologically U is most closely related to o, y (vowel), w, and v; as in two, duet, dyad, twice; top, tuft; sop, sup; auspice, aviary. See V, also O and Y. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 130-144.

Pertaining to the urinary and genital organs; genitourinary; urogenital; as, the urinogenital canal.

A waster; a thief. [Obs. or R.] [Written also wastour.] Chaucer. Southey.