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, either of body or mind. Chaucer. The more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. Milton.

One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.

Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. [R.] Tillotson.

A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.

Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream. -- Tor*ment"ing*ly, adv.

Torture; torment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings. Milton.

A woman who torments. Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honor. Holland.

Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who torments himself.

injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment. They did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. Exod. i. 11. That which was the worst now least afflicts me. Milton.

Sensible; feeling; perceptive. [R.] Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings, Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts. Milton.

To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.

One who baits; a tormentor.

d confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment. Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew. Sterne.

A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidæ, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two- winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [Written also breese and brize.]…

A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain. -- Bull"fight`er (, n.

To get possession of; to attain. Torment myself to catch the English throne. Shak.

A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep. Dunglison.

Tormented. [Obs.] Bale.