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- English Word Tourniquet Definition An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.
- English Word Tournois Definition A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.
- English Word Tournure Definition Turn; contour; figure.
- English Word Tournure Definition Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.
- English Word Tous-les-mois Definition A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year.
- English Word Touse Definition Alt. of Touze
- English Word Touse Definition A pulling; a disturbance.
- English Word Toused Definition of Touze
- English Word Tousel Definition Same as Tousle.
- English Word Touser Definition One who touses.
- English Word Tousing Definition of Touze
- English Word Tousle Definition To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
- English Word Tout Definition To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
- English Word Tout Definition To ply or seek for customers.
- English Word Tout Definition One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.
- English Word Tout Definition To toot a horn.
- English Word Tout Definition The anus.
- English Word Tout-ensemble Definition All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts.
- English Word Touter Definition One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.
- English Word Touze Definition To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.
- English Word Touze Definition See Touse.
- English Word Tow Definition The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
- English Word Tow Definition To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.
- English Word Tow Definition A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.
- English Word Tow Definition The act of towing, or the state of being towed; --chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow.
- English Word Tow Definition That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.
- English Word Tow-head Definition An urchin who has soft, whitish hair.
- English Word Tow-head Definition The hooded merganser.
- English Word Towage Definition The act of towing.
- English Word Towage Definition The price paid for towing.