Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
torse .
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Examples
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Inside the cover, an ex libris pasted to the marbling showed the head of a unicorn over a twisted wreath or torce of silk.
Iconologia Young Geoffrion 2009
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Inside the cover, an ex libris pasted to the marbling showed the head of a unicorn over a twisted wreath or torce of silk.
Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009
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He is endeavoring to make the most of his scanty naval torce, in the face of news that hostile fleets are coming to attack the islands; and has sent to Nueva España to ask for reënforcements and supplies.
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Atleticano torce contra o vento ao ver sua camisa no varal recebendo sacolejos.
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Atleticano torce contra o vento ao ver sua camisa no varal recebendo sacolejos.
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It affords a retreat alio to neutral fliips, which being purfued by privateers, cannot reach Jaquemel or St. Lewis -, as well as to fuch men of war as may be in danger, in thofe latitudes, from the violence of the winds, or the fuperior torce of an enemy's fquadron.
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Ed, a lor, disdegnosa, torce il muso "at the end of the valley.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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'time to fit Out a torce infinitely fuperior and fully com - petent to counteraft that of England.
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