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 Toquement: m. as Toque; also, the wearing of, or furnishing the head with, a Toque; also, a clapping, hitting, or knocking against.

Toquer. To put on a Toque; to furnish or attire the head therewith; also, to clap, knocke, or hit against; also, to iumble a woman.

Toquesing: m. An Allarum bell; or the ringing thereof.

Toquet: m. A little Toque; or a kind of bonnet not so large as the Toque, worne most by children.

Torasse: f. A low and little-bodied Cow, which couets the Bull more then other kine, and neither giues much milke, nor brings many calues.

Torce. as Torse. Torche: f. A Linke; also, the wreathed clowt, wispe, or wad of straw, layed by wenches betweene their heads, and the things which they carrie on them; also, the heart, or pith of a Pine, or of any Rosen-yeelding tree; also, as Torchon de paille, in the later sence.  Torches. as Fenons. Torche de fonte. A fashion of great Linke (made all of wax, and without staffe, or handle) borne anights before great persons, by their Pages, &c.  La torche au poing. With as much shame as may be; or, as in Amende honorable. Torche lorgne. Words, like our thwicke thwacke, expressing a liberall and free dole of blowes; also, here and there, without discretion, at randome.

Torché: m. ée: f. Wiped, made cleane.

Torche-bouche. Banquet à tor. Which costs a man nothing, or whereat he nothing payes.

Torche-cul: m. A wispe for the tayle.

Torche-culatif: m. iue: f. Taile-wiping.

Torche-pot: m. The bird called a Nut-iobber.  Il resemble au torche-pot. He is his wiues Maister, or dare schoole her when she doth amisse; (from the propertie of the cocke Nut-iobber, which beateth his henne when she hath wandered any long time from him.)

Torcher. To wipe, or make cleane; also, to buffet, or cuffe with the fists.  Torcher à autruy le cul de sa chemise. To helpe a man (but as he could haue holpen himselfe) onely by his owne meanes; (Looke vnder Chemise;) The like is;  Torcher le nez de sa manche. To pay a man with his owne money; to giue him an apple out of his owne Orchard, a loafe of his owne batch, a pig of his owne Sow.

Torcheux: m. euse: f. Full of Linkes; of a linke; linke-like; seruing for a linke.

Torchon: m. A rubber, a wiper, a shooe-clowt.  Torchon de paille. A wispe of straw; also, a handfull, or small bundle thereof; as much as a Thatcher layes at once.

Torcionné: m. ée: f. Wrested, wrinched, violently writhen.

Torcis de vermillons. A wreathed bunch of small wormes.

Torcol: m. The little ash-coloured, and long-tongued bird, called a Wrie-necke.

Torcollet: m. The same.

Torcu. A certaine vnluckie bird, of a browne, or (as in some places) of a white colour.

Torculaire: com. Belonging to the tunnell of the braine; whence; Veine torc. Looke Veine. Tordement: m. A wreathing, twisting, twining; wringing, wresting; a crisping, or curling.

Tordille: f. A fleabitten, menniled, or spotted colour of horses, dogs, &c.

Tordoir: m. The bedder, or vnder stone of an oyle-mill, or presse.

Tordre. To wreath, twine, twist, writhe, bend or turne round, wind in, whirle about; hence also, to crispe, or curle; also, to wring, wrest, wrinch.  Tordre le col à. To make a wrie necke, or cast a wrie looke, at; to scorne, contemne, despise.  Tordre le nez à. To make a nose of wax of; to wrest, wrie, manage, turne, at pleasure.  se Tordre & fourvoyer. To goe aside out of the way.  Ne faire que tordre, & avaller. To make brick walls of his cheekes, to swallow his meat halfe chawed, to rowle it once about his (paued) mouth, and then let it downe.  Femme qui son alleure tord; &c; Prov. Looke vnder Femme. Il ne se tort pas qui va plain chemin: Prov. Hee that goes on plaine ground spraines not his foot; mischiefe attends those that take rugged wayes.

Tore: f. Broad-leaued Wolues-bane; or as Thore. Toreau: m. A Bull; Seeke Taureau. Toret: m. A small Wimble

Torment: m. Torment, or torture; extreame affliction, great vexation, hellish anguish, horrible paine; Looke Tourment. Tormente: f. A tempest, or storme of wind at sea.  Les tormentes des procez. The troubles, or troublesome vexations, attending on suits.

Tormenté: m. ée: f. Tormented, tortured, excruciated; extreamely vexed, grieued, afflicted; horribly toßed.

Tormenter. To torment, racke, torture, excruciate; grieue or afflict extreamely, put vnto horrible paine; also, to tosse, as a raging sea doth a ship.

Tormentille: f. Tormentile, Setfoile (an hearbe.)

Tormentine: f. Turpentine.

Tornadot: m. A returne of Dowrie; the giuing back of a womans portion.

Torné. as Tourné. Torne-dos. Looke Tourne-dos. Torner. To turne, alter, change, &c; as Tourner. Tornerost: m. A Turne-spit.

Tornes. as Tournes. Tornesol: m. Turnesole, Heliotropium, Wartwort.

Tornier. Often to stagger, or turne round, like a Stag thats drunke with brouzing in May; also, to beat vp and downe, or flie round, thereby to deceiue the dogs that pursue him.

Torpille: f. The Crampe-fish; a fish that benummes the hands of such as take, or touch, it.

Torpin. as Torpille: ¶Marseillois. Torque: f. A small groue, or tuft of wood, growing by it selfe.

Torqué: m. ée: f. Writhen, wreathed; wound in; wrapped about.

Torquer. To writhe, wreath; wind in, wrap about.

Torqueure: f. A wreath; wreathing; place or thing writhen; and particularly, the wreath whereby the foot of a graffe is preserued from the iniurie of weather.

Torrefié: m. ée: f. Scorched, parched, toasted; dried by the fire, or in the Sunne, and then done to dust.

Torrefier. To scorch, parch, toast; to drie, & afterwards doe vnto dust.

Torrent: m. A torrent, land floud, fall of waters from a hill, caused by raine, or snow; a swift streame running with a great, and violent sweepe.