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T O S 
To vex; to excruciate; to torment. 
Slill must I cherish the dear, sad remembrance. 
At once to torture, and to please my soul. Addison. 
To keep on the stretch.—The bow tortureth the string 
continually, and thereby holdeth it in a continual trepida¬ 
tion. Bacon. 
TO'RTURER, s. He who tortures; tormenter. 
I play the torturer by small and small, 
To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken. Shakspeare. 
TOUTURINGLY, adv. So as to torment or punish. 
An host of furies 
Could not have baited me more torturingly. Beaum and FI. 
TO'RTUROUS, adj. Tormenting, occasioning torture. 
TORT WORTH, a parish of England, in Gloucestershire; 
3i miles west-by-north of Wootton-under-Edge. 
TORVAKA1RY, a town of the south of India, province 
of Mysore. Lat. 13. 10. N. long. 76. 43. E. 
TORVER, a township of England, in Lancashire; 5§ 
miles west-south-west of Hawkshead. 
T'ORVITY, s. [torvitas, Lat.] Sourness; severity of 
countenance. Not used. Cockeram. 
TO'RVOUS, adj. \_torvus , Lat.] Sour of aspect; stern; 
severe of countenance. Not used. —That torvous sour look 
produced by anger, and that gay and pleasing countenance 
accompanying love. Derham. 
TORWOQD, a forest of Scotland, in Stirlingshire, noted 
for having given shelter to Sir William Wallace. 
TORWORTH,a hamlet of England, in Nottinghamshire ; 
5 miles north-west-by-north of East Retford. 
TO'RY, s. Opposed to a whig. —The knight is more a 
tori/ in the country than the town, because it more advances 
bis interest. Addison. See Whig. 
TORY, an island in the Atlantic ocean, about seven miles 
north from Bloody Farland Point, on the north coast of Ire¬ 
land, about three miles long, and hardly one broad. Lat. 
55. 16. N. long. 8 . 7. W. 
TORY. See Tavai Poenammoo. 
TO'RYISM, s. The notions of a tory.—Nothing would 
illustrate the subject better than an inquiry into the rise and 
progress of our late parties ; or a short history of tory ism 
and whiggism from their cradle to their grave, the intro¬ 
ductory account of their genealogy and descent. Boling - 
broke. 
TORZELO, a small island of Italy; 6 miles from Venice. 
TOSA, a river in the north of Italy, which rises in the 
mountain de la Fourche, and falls into the Lago Maggiore, 
in the duchy of Milan. 
TOSA, a small town in the north-east of Sicily, in the Val 
di Demona, at the mouth of the river Polina ; 12 miles east 
of Cefalu. 
TOSA, a sea-port town in the north-east of Spain, in Ca¬ 
talonia, on a promontory of the same name, with 2400 in¬ 
habitants ; 23 miles south-south-east of Gerona. 
TOSA, a town on the southern coast of Xicoco, in Japan, 
capital of a province. Lat. 33. 40. N. long. 134.50. E. 
TOSAGUA, an abundant river of Quito, in the province 
of Esmeraldas, which runs south-south-west, and unites itself 
with the Chones, in lat. 32. 30. S.—There is a settlement of 
the same name on its shores. 
TOSANLU, a river of Asia Minor, the ancient Lycus, 
which rises in the mountains of Armenia, and after running 
about 200 miles almost due west, falls into the Jekil Irmak; 
about 30 miles north of Amasia. 
TOSCANELLO, a small town of Italy, in the State of the 
Church. It is the see of a bishop; 20 miles north of Civita 
Vecchia, and 43 north-west of Rome. 
TOSCOLANO, a small town of Austrian Italy, in the 
Milanese, delegation of Brescia. Population nearly 3000; 
G miles east-north-east of Salo. 
To TOSE, v. n. [of the same original with tease.] To 
comb wool. 
TOSELAND, a parish of England, in Huntingdonshire; 
4 miles north-east-by-east of St. Neots. 
TOSINO, a river of the central part of Italy, which 
T O S 
crosses the marquisate of Ancona, and falls into the Adriatic 
in Lat. 42. 57. N. 
• T0 ‘? N d’ a river in the north of European Russia, which 
^°Tr!cn^ eVa at Pe | ,a > m the government of Petersburgh. 
1 Ub(J, a river ot Quito, in the province of Esmeraldas 
which runs north-west, and enters the Juli, in lat. 13 S 
, T( ?SQ u IATOSSY CREEK, one of the head brancheso f 
the Allegany river. 
To TOSS, v. a. \t.asscn, Dutch; tasser, French, to ac- 
cumulate; Minshcu. Geuo-ou, Gr. to dance: Meric Ca - 
saubon 1 osen, German, to make a noise; Skinner- 
perhaps from to us, a word used by those who would have 
any thing thrown to them.] Pret. tossed or tost,- part 
pass, tossed or tost.— To throw with the hand, as a ball at 
play. 
With this she seem’d to play, and, as in sport, 
Toss'd to her love in presence of the court. Dryden. 
,, Eo throw with violence.—Back do I toss these treasons to 
thy head. Shakspeare. —To lift with a sudden and violent 
motion. 
Behold how they toss their torches on high. 
How they point to the Persian abodes. ’ Dryden. 
To agitate; to put into violent motion.-—I have made se¬ 
veral voyages upon the sea, often being tossed in storms. 
Addtson. —To make restless; to disquiet. 
She did love the knight of the red cross. 
For whose dear sake so many troubles her did toss. Spenser. 
To keep in play; to tumble over.—That scholar should 
come to a better knowledge in the Latin tongue than most 
do, that spend four years in tossing all the rules of grammar 
in common schools. Ascham. 
To TOSS, v. n. To fling; to winch; to be in violent 
commotion. 
And thou, my sire, not destin’d by thy birth. 
To turn to dust and mix with common earth, 
How wilt thou toss and rave, and long to die, 
And quit thy claim to immortality! 0 Addison. 
To be tossed. 
Your mind is tossing on the sea. 
There where your argosies 
Do overpeer the petty traffickers. Shakspeare. 
Toss up. To throw a coin into the air, and wasrer on 
what side it shall full. s 
I’d try if any pleasure could be found, 
In tossing up for twenty thousand pound. Bramston. 
TOSS, The act of tossing.—The discus that is to be 
seen in the hand of the celebrated Castor at Don Livio’s is 
perfectly round; nor has it any thing like a sling fastened to 
it, to add force to the toss. Addison. —An affected man¬ 
ner of raising the head. 
His various modes from various fathers follow; 
One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow: 
His sword-knot this, his cravat that designed. Dryden. 
TO'SSEL, s. See Tassel.— Tie at each lower corner a 
handful of hops with a piece of packthread to make a tossel, 
by which you may conveniently lift the bag when full.— 
Mortimer. 
TO'SSER, s. One who throws ; one who flings and 
writhes.—Whoever or whatever agitates. 
I did expect. 
Instead of Mars, the storm-goaler Eolus, 
And Juno proffering her Deiopeia 
As satisfaction to the blustering god 
To send his tossers forth. Beaum. and Ft. 
TOSSIA, a town of Asia Minor, situated on the Kisrl 
Irmak, and on the route from Amasia to Constantinople. Lat 
40. 20. N. long. 34. 10. E. 
TOSSIDE, a hamlet of England, West Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 7 miles south-west-by-south of Settle. 
TOSSIGNANO, a small town of Italy, in the Ecclesias¬ 
tical States ; 13 miles west of Ferrara. 
TO'SSING, 
