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Starched :: Star-chamber (n.) An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641..

Booting :: Booting (n.) A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2..

Cruciate :: Cruciate (v. t.) To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate.

Pinnywinkles :: Pinnywinkles (n. pl.) An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs..

Torture :: Torture (n.) Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind..

Forcipation :: Forcipation (n.) Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.

Tormentise :: Tormentise (n.) Torture; torment.

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

Torturer :: Torturer (n.) One who tortures; a tormentor.

Excruciation :: Excruciation (n.) The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture..

Boot :: Boot (n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland..

Martyr :: Martyr (v. t.) To persecute; to torment; to torture.

Torment :: Torment (v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture..

Thumbscrew :: Thumbscrew (n.) An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.

Wheel :: Wheel (n.) An instrument of torture formerly used.

Pain :: Pain (n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart..

Rack :: Rack (a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons..

Rack :: Rack (v. t.) To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.

Wring :: Wring (v. t.) Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture..

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

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