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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.

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.