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ping business. Market on Saturday, and one annual fair ; 
3i miles south-south-east of Exeter, and 170 south-west of 
London. Lat. 50. 40. N. long. 3. 27. W. 
TOPSHAM, a township of the United States, in Orange 
county, Vermont; 12 miles west of Newbury, and 25 east- 
north-east of Montpelier. Population 814. 
TOPSHAM, a township of the United States, in Lincoln 
county, Maine, on the north side of the Androscoggin, op¬ 
posite Brunswick ; 19 miles west of Wiscasset, and 140 
north-east of Boston. Population 1271. 
TO'PSYTURVY, adv. [This Skinner fancies to top in 
turj.~\ With the bottom upward. 
If we without his help can make a head 
To push against the kingdom ; with his help 
We shall o’erturn it topsyturvy down. ShaJcspeare. 
TOQUERAGUA, a river of New Granada, in the pro¬ 
vince of San Juan de los Llanos, which runs south-south- 
east, and enters the Casanare. 
TOR,s. [cop, Saxon.] A tower; a turret.—I visited 
the tor , which is nothing but the steeple of an ancient 
church. Ray. —A high pointed rock or hill, whence tor 
in the initial syllable of some local names. 
This haughty mountain, by indulgent fame 
Preferr’d to a wonder, Mam tor has to name. Cotton. 
TOR, an ancient town of Arabia, situated near the head of 
the Red sea. It was once a place of great importance, when 
a great part of the merchandize was landed here, and con¬ 
veyed to Syria and India. The coast is remarkable for the 
variety of madrepore and other species of coral. Lat. 28. 
19. N. long. 33. 28. E. 
TOR, a village of Western Africa, in the country of the 
Foulahs. Lat. 16. 30. N. 
TOR BRYAN, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 4 
miles south-west-by-south of Abbott’s Newton. 
TOR MOHAM, a parish of England, in Devonshire, 
near the sea and Torbay. Population 1350 ; 2j miles 
west of Torbay. 
TORA, a village of Egypt, on the Nile ; 8 miles south 
of Cairo. 
TORACA, a small town in the south-west of the king¬ 
dom of Naples, in the Principato Citra. Population 1300; 
8 miles east of Policastro. 
TORAL, El, a port of Chili. Lat. 27. 55. S. 
TORBALA, a town of Hindostan, province of Lahore, 
district of Pukely. Lat. 34. 12. N. long. 72. 45. E. 
TORBALE, a small town of Asia Minor, built in a valley 
between two high mountains; 30 miles south-east of Nico- 
media. 
TORBAY, a fine and commodious bay of the English 
channel, on the coast of Devonshire, situated five miles 
north-east of Dartmouth, and formed by two capes called 
Berry Point or Head, and Bob’s Nose. It is about 12 miles 
in compass. It forms the general rendezvous of the British 
navy. Berry-head flag-staff is in lat. 50. 24. N. long. 3. 
28. 14. W. 
TORBAY, a bay of the North Atlantic, on the east 
coast of Newfoundland. Lat. 47. 48. N. long. 52. 20. W. 
TORBAY, a town and bay on the south coast of Nova 
Scotia. Lat. 45. 8. N. long. 61. 15. W. 
TORBIA, a small town in the north of Italy, in Pied¬ 
mont, called by the Romans Tropae Augusti. 
TORBIDO (Francesco), called IIMoro, was born about 
the year 1500, at Verona, and perhaps rather before it, as he 
is said to have had, for a short time, the advantage of re¬ 
ceiving instruction from Giorgione. He afterwards became 
the pupil of Liberale, and his own style is a compound of 
those of his masters, partaking of the glow of the former, 
with the elaborate finish of the latter. His principal occu¬ 
pation was in portrait, yet he left several historical pictures 
of considerable merit. Amongst them are some frescoes, 
representing the life of the Virgin, in the cathedral at 
Verona ; and a picture in oil of the Transfiguration, in the 
TOR 
church of S. Maria Maggiore, at Venice. He died at the 
age of 81, but the exact date is unknown. 
TORC, a mountain of Ireland, in the county of Kerry, 
on the south side of Lough Lane, whence the southern part 
is called Lough Tore. 
TORCAL, El, a remarkable collection of rocks in the 
south of Spain, in an inland district between Antequera and 
Alora. The scenery in the neighbourhood is extremely 
wild and romantic. 
TORCE, a small town in the west of France, department 
of the Mayenne. Population 1100. 
TORCE, a town of Hindostan, province of Bahar. It is 
the capital of a small district of the same name. Lat. 23. 
42. N. long. 85.2. E. 
TORCELLO, a considerable town of Austrian Italy, in 
the delegation of Venice, situated on an island of the same 
name, in the marshy district called the Lagunes. It has 
a population of 9000 ; 7 miles north of Venice. 
TORCH, s. [torc/ie, French; torcia, Italian; intortium, 
low Latin.] A wax light, generally supposed to be bigger 
than a candle. 
Here lies the dusky torch of Mortimer, 
Choak’d with ambition of the meaner sort. Shakspeare. 
TO'RCHBEARER, s. One whose office is to carry a 
torch.—He did in a genteel manner chastise their negligence, 
with making them, for that night, torchbearers. Sidney. 
TO'RCHER, s. One that gives light. 
Ere the horses of the sun shall bring 
Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring. Shakspeare. 
TORCHES, a small river of Portuguese Guiana, which 
falls into the sea. 
TORCHILLI (Jonas), the descendant of a respectable 
family in Iceland, was born in the district of Gulbringe, in 
1697, and sent, in 1718, to the university of Copenhagen; 
from whence he proceeded to Holstein, completing his stu¬ 
dies at the university of Kiel. Torchilli died at Copen¬ 
hagen, in 1759. His works, besides some others, are:— 
“ Biblia Islandica ab eo Mendis Typographic^ purgata,” 
Havn. 1746; “An Appendix to Anderson’s Account of 
Iceland, in Danish,” 1748, 8vo.; “A Supplement to 
Runolf Jonse’s Icelandic Grammar;” “ Lexicon Islandico- 
Latinum.” Gen. Biog. 
TO'RCHLIGHT, s. Light kindled to supply the want of 
the sun. 
If thou like a child didst fear before. 
Being in the dark, where thou didst nothing see; 
Now I have brought thee torchlight fear no more. Davies. 
TO'RCH WORT, s. The name of a plant.—A stately stalk 
shot up of torchwort high. More. 
TORCULAR HEROPHILI, a name given to one of the 
sinuses of the brain. See Anatomy. 
TORCZYN, a small town in the south-west of European 
Russia, in the government of Volhynia; 11 miles west of 
Luck, and 41 north-by-west of Brody, in Galicia. 
TORDEHAMOS, a small town in the north-west of 
Spain; 21 miles west-north-west of Valladolid, and 19 north- 
north-west of Tordesillas. 
TORDESILLAS, a town in the north-west of Spain, in 
the province of Leon, on the right bank of the Douro, over 
which there is a very fine bridge. It has 4000 inhabitants. 
This is one of the most ancient towns in the province of 
Leon, and stands 25 miles west-south-west of Valladolid, 
TORDYLIUM [of Pliny. Top&Duor, Gr. of Dioscorides], 
in Botany, a genus of the class pentandria, order digynia, 
natural order of umbellatee or umbelliferae.—Generic Cha¬ 
racter. Calyx: umbel universal, unequal, manifold. Par¬ 
tial unequal, manifold, very short, flat. Involucre universal 
of slender undivided leaflets, commonly the length of the 
umbel. Partial halved, outwardly longer than the umbellet. 
Perianth proper five, toothed. Corolla: universal difform, 
radiate. Florets all fertile. Proper of the disk of five equal 
inflex-cordate petals. Proper of the ray similar, but the 
outmost 
