<B>toreador, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a man who fights a bull in an arena; bullfighter, especially one mounted on a horse (a term no longer used in Spanish bullfighting). </DL>
<A NAME="toreadorpants">
<B>toreador pants,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> snug-fitting trousers ending at mid-calf, worn by women. </DL>
<A NAME="torero">
<B>torero, </B>noun, pl. <B>-reros.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a bullfighter who is not mounted, such as a matador or a banderillero. </DL>
<A NAME="toreutic">
<B>toreutic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the ancient art of working in metal or ivory, including embossing, chasing, and working in relief. </DL>
<A NAME="toreutics">
<B>toreutics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the toreutic art. </DL>
<A NAME="tori">
<B>tori, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of <B>torus.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="toric">
<B>toric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with a toric lens. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Geometry.) of or having to do with a torus; shaped like a torus. </DL>
<A NAME="toriclens">
<B>toric lens,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an optical lens with a surface forming a part of a geometrical torus, used in eyeglasses because it refracts differently in different meridians. </DL>
<A NAME="torii">
<B>torii, </B>noun, pl. <B>-rii.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a gateway at the entrance to a Japanese Shinto shrine, built of two uprights and two crosspieces. </DL>
<A NAME="toril">
<B>toril, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an enclosed stall where the bull is kept before a bullfight. </DL>
<A NAME="torment">
<B>torment, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to cause very great pain to. <BR> <I>Ex. Severe headaches tormented him. Like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way Tormenting himself with his prickles (Thomas Hood).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to worry or annoy very much. <BR> <I>Ex. She torments everyone with silly questions.</I> (SYN) tease, plague, harrass. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=torture.</B> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a cause of very great pain. <BR> <I>Ex. A bad burn can be a torment. Instruments of torture were torments.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>very great pain; agony; torture. <BR> <I>Ex. years Dark with torment and with tears (Emily Bronte). He suffered torments from his aching teeth.</I> (SYN) anguish, misery, distress. <DD><B> 3. </B>a cause of great worry or annoyance. </DL>
<A NAME="tormenter">
<B>tormenter, </B>noun. =tormentor.</DL>
<A NAME="tormentil">
<B>tormentil, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a low European and Asian herb of the rose family, with yellow flowers having four petals, and a strongly astringent root used in medicine, tanning, and dyeing; bloodroot. </DL>
<A NAME="tormenting">
<B>tormenting, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that torments. adv. <B>tormentingly.</B> noun <B>tormentingness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tormentor">
<B>tormentor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that torments. <DD><B> 2. </B>a curtain or flat on either side of the stage at the front, filling the space between the proscenium arch and the scenery and blocking the audience's view into the wings. <DD><B> 3. </B>a screen covered with special material and used in motion-picture studios to prevent echo in sound recording. Also, <B>tormenter.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tormentress">
<B>tormentress, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a woman tormentor. </DL>
<A NAME="torn">
<B>torn, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past participle of <B>tear</B> (2). <BR> <I>Ex. They have torn up the plants by the roots. His coat was old and torn.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tornadic">
<B>tornadic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like a tornado. <BR> <I>Ex. The tornadic winds raked 12 square blocks in Galveston, demolishing houses and strewing debris (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tornado">
<B>tornado, </B>noun, pl. <B>-does</B> or <B>-dos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>an extremely violent and destructive whirlwind. A tornado extends down from a mass of dark clouds as a whirling funnel and moves over the land in a narrow path. <DD><B> b. </B>any extremely violent windstorm. <DD><B> 2. </B>a violent, whirling squall occurring during the summer on the west coast of Africa. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) any violent outburst. <BR> <I>Ex. a tornado of anger. In the fifteenth century a last tornado of nomadism arose in Western Turkestan (H. G. Wells).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) a violent thunderstorm of the tropical. Atlantic, with torrential rain. </DL>
<A NAME="tornadolantern">
<B>tornado lantern,</B> =hurricane lamp.</DL>
<A NAME="tornillo">
<B>tornillo, </B>noun, pl. <B>-los.</B> =screw bean.</DL>
<A NAME="toro">
<B>toro, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bull, especially one used in bullfighting. </DL>
<A NAME="toroid">
<B>toroid, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geometry.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a surface described by the revolution of any closed plane curve about an axis in its own plane. <DD><B> 2. </B>the solid enclosed by such a surface. </DL>
<A NAME="toroidal">
<B>toroidal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or characteristic of a toroid. <BR> <I>Ex. In this twisted toroidal field the effect of particle drift is much reduced (Scientific American).</I> adv. <B>toroidally.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="torontonian">
<B>Torontonian, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a native or inhabitant of Toronto, Canada. </DL>
<A NAME="torose">
<B>torose, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Botany.) cylindrical, with bulges or constrictions at intervals; swelling in knobs at intervals. <DD><B> 2. </B>bulging; protuberant; knobbed. <BR> <I>Ex. torose muscles.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="toroth">
<B>toroth, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plural of <B>torah.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="torpedo">
<B>torpedo, </B>noun, pl. <B>-does,</B> verb, <B>-doed,</B> <B>-doing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a large, cigar-shaped shell that contains explosives and travels through water by its own power. Torpedoes are sent under water from a submarine, surface vessel, or low-flying aircraft to blow up enemy ships. <DD><B> 2. </B>an underwater mine, shell, or other device that explodes when hit. <DD><B> 3. </B>an explosive device put on a railroad track that makes a loud noise for a signal when a wheel of the engine runs over it. <DD><B> 4. </B>a firework consisting of an explosive and gravel wrapped in thin paper. It makes a bang when it is thrown against something hard. <BR> <I>Ex. Children used to play with torpedoes on the Fourth of July.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(U.S.) an explosive enclosed in a tube and set off in an oil well to renew or increase the flow. <DD><B> 6. </B>(U.S.) (formerly in military use) any one of various encased charges of explosive, especially an underground mine. <DD><B> 7. </B>a fish that can give an electric shock; electric ray. <DD><B> 8. </B>(Slang.) a hired gunman. <DD><B> 9. </B>(U.S. Slang.) hero sandwich. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to attack, hit, or destroy with a torpedo or torpedoes. <DD><B> 2. </B>to set off a torpedo in or against. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to bring completely to an end; destroy. <BR> <I>Ex. to torpedo a peace conference.</I> adj. <B>torpedolike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="torpedoboat">
<B>torpedo boat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, fast warship used for attacking with torpedoes. </DL>
<A NAME="torpedoboatdestroyer">
<B>torpedo-boat destroyer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a ship larger, faster, and more heavily armed than a torpedo boat, used to destroy torpedo boats. </DL>
<A NAME="torpedobody">
<B>torpedo body,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a style of automobile body in which all side surfaces including fenders are flush. </DL>
<A NAME="torpedoman">
<B>torpedoman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a U.S. Navy warrant officer in charge of the maintenance and repair of torpedoes and submarine equipment. </DL>
<A NAME="torpedoplane">
<B>torpedo plane,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an airplane for carrying and releasing self-propelled torpedoes. </DL>
<A NAME="torpedotube">
<B>torpedo tube,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tube through which a torpedo is sent out, as from a submarine or torpedo boat, either by an explosive charge or by compressed air. </DL>
<A NAME="torpid">
<B>torpid</B> (1), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>dull, inactive, or sluggish. <BR> <I>Ex. It is a man's own fault ... if his mind grows torpid in old age (Samuel Johnson).</I> (SYN) lethargic, apathetic. <DD><B> 2. </B>not moving or feeling; dormant. Animals that hibernate become torpid in winter. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=numb.</B> adv. <B>torpidly.</B> noun <B>torpidness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="torpid">
<B>torpid</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an eight-oared, clinker-built boat rowed in the Lent races at Oxford. <DD><B> 2. </B>a member of the crew of such a boat. <BR><I>expr. <B>torpids,</B> </I>the Lent races at Oxford. <BR> <I>Ex. A suggestion of cancelling the torpids was defeated (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="torpidity">
<B>torpidity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> torpid condition. </DL>
<A NAME="torpor">
<B>torpor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>torpid condition or quality; apathy; lethargy; listlessness; dullness. <BR> <I>Ex. My calmness was the torpor of despair (Charles Brockden Brown).</I> (SYN) stupor. <DD><B> 2. </B>the absence or suspension of movement or feeling, as of a hibernating animal; dormancy. </DL>
<B>torquate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Zoology.) ringed with hair or feathers around the neck; collared. </DL>
<A NAME="torque">
<B>torque, </B>noun, verb, <B>torqued,</B> <B>torquing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a force causing rotation or torsion. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Physics.) the moment of a system of forces causing rotation. <BR> <I>Ex. The power produced by an automobile engine consists of speed and torque.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a necklace of twisted metal. <BR> <I>Ex. The ancient Gauls and Britons wore torques.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Optics.) the rotational effect produced by certain liquids or crystals on the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light passing through them. <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to apply torque to an axle, bolt, wheel, or the like. noun <B>torquer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="torqueconverter">
<B>torque converter</B> or <B>convertor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a hydraulic device for altering the torque and speed delivered by a driving shaft to the ratio required by a driven shaft. Certain automobiles with automatic transmission use torque converters. </DL>
<A NAME="torqued">
<B>torqued, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> twisted; convoluted; formed like a torque. </DL>
<A NAME="torquemada">
<B>Torquemada, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an intolerant and cruel inquisitor or prosecutor. </DL>
