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 Torrentin: m. ine: f. Belonging to, or abiding in, torrents, or swift and violent streames.

Torride: com. Torride, scorched, burned, parched; also, dried, or dried by the extremitie of heat.  Zone torride. The torride, or firie Zone; a circle, or certaine breadth in the firmament, vnder which, by reason of exceeding heat, few people inhabit.

Torrillon d'un Canon. The middle of a Canon, or the wreath, or band about the middle part of it.

Torrion: m. A great tower.

Tors: m. torse: f. Wreathed, or twined; also, wrested, wrinched, wrung; bowed, crooked, wried, awrie.   À tors & à travers. Ouerthwartly, here and there, to and fro, without any manner of regard.  Il s'est tors. He is wandered, or gone out of the way.

Torse: f. A wreath; also, a wrest, wrinch; wrythe, wrying; a bending, wandring, or going out of the way.

Torsement: m. A wreathing; also, a wresting, wrinching; writhing, wrying; a bending, straying, wandering, or going out of the way.

Torsion: f. A writhing, wrying, wresting; griping, wringing.

Torsionnairement. as Tortionnairement. Torsure: f. as Torsement. Tort: m. Wrong, iniurie, hurt, offence, dammage, dis pleasure.   À tort. Wrongfully, vniustly, vnworthily.  À tort ou à droict. By hooke or crooke, by right or wrong, by one meanes or another.  I'ay tort. I am to blame; I'ay le tort; My cause is nought, I am in the wrong.

Torteau: m. A Pancake; or as Tourteau. Torteaux. Torteauxes, and by old Blazonners, Wastells; must be round, whole, and of some colour, not of mettall; therein to make them differ from Besants.

Tortelle: f. Banke Creßes; some also call so, the Rape Chadlocke, or Charlocke; others, wild Mustard; others, Rocket gentle, and Rocket gallant; but erroniously; for these hearbes onely resemble it.

Tortellées: f. The curled toppings of the haire.

Tortement. Crookedly, wryly, crosly.

Tortice. as Tortisse (the feminine to Tortis;) whence,  Veines tortices; crooked, or crankling veines. Torticoler. To writhe, or wrie the necke.

Torti colly. A wrie-necked fellow.

Tortillé: m. ée: f. Wreathed, twined; curled; wryed; also, gnawne, or chawed in peeces.

Tortillemens. Wreathes, wreathings, knots, curlings.

Tortiller. To wreath, twine, twist, to twirle, or wind about; Hence also, to curle, or tie on many knots; also, to wrinch, or to wry.

Tortillon: m. A little wreath; also, a curled locke of haire; also, the twirle, or twirling tendrell of a vine; and generally any double thing writhen, twirled, wound or twisted together, or one within another.

Tortillonné: m. ée: f. Wreathed; wound vp; curled; twisted, twirled, twined.

Tortillonner. To wreath, twine, twirle, twist, curle.

Tortionnaire: com. Wrongfull, vniust, or vniustly wrested; hard, cruell, seuere.

Tortionnairement. Wrongfully, vniustly; crookedly, hardly, cruelly.

Tortionnier: m. An Extortioner.

Tortipé: m. A splay-foot; a shaling, or splay-footed fellow.

Tortis: m. A wreath; a garland. Toris cavez. Crooked pathes, turning wayes. Tortis de cire. A wreathed Linke, or great candle of wax; most in vse about Candlemas.

Tortis: m. isse: f. Writhen, writhing, crooked, or crooking.

Tortiz. Lime, or loame which hath straw chopt into it: ¶Gasc. Torterelle: f. A Turtle Doue.

Tortouëre: f. A hunting pole.

Tortu: m. uë: f. Crooked, awrie, bent, bowed; writhing, twining; wrying, crooking; winding in and out, turning often, full of crinklecrankles.  Tortuë busche fait droict ] feu: Prov. (So comes a crooked thing to be good for something.) Tortuë: f. A Tortoise.   Tortuë de bois. A land Tortoise, garden Tortoise, wood Tortoise.

Tortuemént: m. A crooking, bowing, bending, wrying, writhing, often turning, winding in and out.

Tortuément. Wryly, crookedly, crookingly, wryingly, writhingly.

Tortuëusement. Most wryly, crookedly, crookingly, wryingly, writhingly.

Tortuëux: m. ëuse: f. Full of crookednesse or crookings, full of turnings, windings, crinklecrankles.

Tortugue. as Tortuë. Tortuosité: f. A crookednesse, a crooking, bending, winding in and out, a crinkling or crankling.

Torture: f. Torture, torment, a racke, or a racking.

Torturé: m. ée: f. Tortured, tormented, racked; also, wrested or made crooked, wrythed or wried aside.

Torturer. To torture, torment, racke; also, to wrest, writhe, wry aside.

Torty-colly. See Torti-colly. Torve: com. Grimme, sterne, fell, spightfull, frowning, lowring, vnpleasantly looking.

Tost. Quickly, presently- suddenly, swiftly.  Parler tost. To speake thicke, or fast, or (as we say) nine words at once: ¶Orleannois. Plus tost. Looke Plustost. Qui tost donne deux fois donne: Pro. He that giueth quickly giueth twice; or, he giues as good as twice, that giues things in a trice.

Tostée: f. A toast of bread: ¶Pic. Totage: m. The whole summe, substance, matter of; the whole, all.

Total: m. The totall, or whole summe.

Totalement. totally, wholly, vtterly, absolutely, throughly, in all sorts, altogether.

Totalité: f. A totalitie, the vttermost penie, the totall, or or whole summe.

Totene. The Sleeue, or Calamarie fish: ¶Marseil. Totiens quotiens. as in Quotiens. Totinge. as Totage: ¶Rab. Totum. A kind of game with a whirlebone.

Toüaige: m. Towage; the towing of a ship by boats, or at the sterne of another ship.

Toüaille: f. A Towell.

Toüasse: m. vn gros tou. A lumpish, ignorant, or vnmannerlie clusterfist.

Toüassier: m. ere: f. Clownish, rude, ignorant, vnmannerlie, lumpish.

Touc: m. A sinke, or filthie gutter : ¶Breton. Touchant. Touching, handling; also, concerning, as concerning, as for, about.

Touche: f. A touchstone; and thence, a triall; as also, the allay, or goodneße of mettall; also, a fescue; also, a penne, or pinne for a paire of writing tables; also, a flop or fret in a Musicall Instrument; also, a hit, or venie at fence.