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See 3d Tore, 2.

Stern; grim. See Torvous. [Obs.] But yesterday his breath Awed Rome, and his least torved frown was death. J. Webster (1654).

Sourness or severity of countenance; sterness. [Obs.]

Sour of aspect; of a severe countenance; stern; grim. [Obs.] That torvous, sour look produced by anger. Derham.

Of ro pertaining to the Tories.

The principles of the Tories.

One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. [Obs.]

(a) One who abates a nuisance. (b) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone.

One who abbreviates or shortens.

Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

One who abdicates.

A place for hiding or preserving articles of value. Cowell.

muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

A weeding machine.

One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender.

Containing abjuration.

One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything. [R.]

One who repeals by authority.

Serving to absolve; absolving. "An absolutory sentence." Ayliffe.

Conferring absolution; absolutory.