English English Dictionary

Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.

Injurious: tortious.

Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.

Capable of being tortured.

Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.

The act or process of torturing.

To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person.

To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

To keep on the stretch, as a bow.

of Torture

One who tortures; a tormentor.

of Torture

So as to torture.

Involving, or pertaining to, torture.

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

of Torula

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

Same as Torose.