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Definition of Torse
1. n. A wreath.
Definition of Torse
1. Noun. A twist of cloth or wreath underneath and part of a crest. Always shown as six twists, the first tincture being the tincture of the field, the second the tincture of the metal, and so on. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Torse
1. a wreath of twisted silks [n -S]
Medical Definition of Torse
1.
1. A wreath.
2. [F. Tors, torse, twisted.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torse
Literary usage of Torse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1871)
"The torse having for its edge of regression a unicursal curve is a sextic torse;
and this is in fact the order of the torse derived from the ..."
2. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1898)
"torse, on a Certain Sextic : vu, 99—114; introductory, vu, 99—100; theorem of
four binary quartics, vu, 100 ; standard equation of unicursal quartic, vu, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1882)
"In part explanation, observe that the definitions of p and <r agree with those
given, Art. 609: the nodal torse is the torse enveloped by the tangent planes ..."
4. Solid Geometry by Percival Frost (1886)
"Reciprocal of a torse. If S be a torse, every tangent plane will have an infinite
number of points of contact lying on a straight line, and every point of 2 ..."
5. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"liia /torse, with all his strength and running, cannot draw them out- One of his
qualifications wns dancing, for which reason he is supposed to have been ..."
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