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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

the quality or state of being tortuous.

Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla. The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick. Macaulay.

Capable of being tortured.

Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. Shak. Ghastly spasm or racking torture. Milton.

One who tortures; a tormentor.

So as to torture. Beau. & Fl.

Involving, or pertaining to, torture. [R.] "The torturous crucifixion." I. Disraeli.

A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.

Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci.

Same as Torose.

Same as Torose.