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Deformity :: Deformity (a.) The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.

Pollage :: Pollage (n.) A head or poll tax; hence, extortion..

Turtler :: Turtler (n.) One who catches turtles or tortoises.

Pelican :: Pelican (n.) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.

Loom :: Loom (v. i.) To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from atmospheric influences; as, the ship looms large; the land looms high..

Osteomalacia :: Osteomalacia (n.) A disease of the bones, in which they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia..

Extortious :: Extortious (a.) Extortionate.

Discruciate :: Discruciate (v. t.) To torture; to excruciate.

Brace :: Brace (n.) A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell..

Detort :: Detort (v. t.) To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest.

Twist :: Twist (v. i.) To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others..

Tort :: Tort (n.) Mischief; injury; calamity.

Tortion :: Tortion (n.) Torment; pain.

Retortion :: Retortion (v. t.) Retaliation.

Strapper :: Strappado (v. t.) To punish or torture by the strappado.

Struggle :: Struggle (v. i.) To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body..

Torture :: Torture (n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel..

Extorting :: Extorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Extor.

Tortuous :: Tortuous (a.) Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.

Twistical :: Twistical (a.) Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest..

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