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- English Word Touring Definition of Tour
- English Word Tourist Definition One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.
- English Word Tourmaline Definition A mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels.
- English Word Tourn Definition A spinning wheel.
- English Word Tourn Definition The sheriff's turn, or court.
- English Word Tournament Definition A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.
- English Word Tournament Definition Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.
- English Word Tournery Definition Work turned on a lathe; turnery.
- English Word Tourney Definition A tournament.
- English Word Tourney Definition To perform in tournaments; to tilt.
- 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.