Definition of tort

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Tort (n.) Mischief; injury; calamity.

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Asquint :: Asquint (adv.) With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint..
Anfractuous :: Anfractuous (a.) Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born..
Tortile :: Tortile (a.) Twisted; wreathed; coiled.
Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.
Goggle-eyed :: Goggle-eyed (a.) Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes.
Clubfoot :: Clubfoot (n.) A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes..
Retortion :: Retortion (v. t.) Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back.
Irpe :: Irpe (n.) A fantastic grimace or contortion of the body.
Excruciate :: Excruciate (a.) Excruciated; tortured.
Snail :: Snail (n.) A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo..
Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2..
Tortilla :: Tortilla (n.) An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone..
Ravening :: Ravening (n.) Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
Twisted :: Twisted (a.) Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted..
Bistort :: Bistort (n.) An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent..
Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
Extorter :: Extorter (n.) One who practices extortion.
Wrench :: Wrench (n.) To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert..
Obvoluted :: Obvoluted (a.) Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, in botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap..
Floor :: Floor (v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent..
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