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Definition of Torrefies
1. torrefy [v] - See also: torrefy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torrefies
Literary usage of Torrefies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Tales, 2154, in which place torrefies = the rings on the collar of a dog through
which the leash was passed ; they were so called from the rings turning ..."
2. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"... at one time or other, perpendicular over every part of that zone, and extremely
torrefies or heats it. TROVER is the remedy prescribed by the law, ..."
3. Elements of Mineralogy by Richard Kirwan (1810)
"... of Joachimsthal, in Bohemia, torrefies the pyrites with one-sixth of its weight
of common salt; digests the roasted mass in marine acid, ..."
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