Vocabulary : torquated to Torrent

torquated : Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.
Torque : A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons. ;; That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces. ;; A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis.
Torqued : Wreathed; twisted. ;; Twisted; bent; -- said of a dolphin haurient, which forms a figure like the letter S.
Torques : A cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar.
Torrefaction : The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied.

Torrefied : of Torrefy
Torrefy : To dry by a fire. ;; To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores. ;; To dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they are friable, or are reduced to the state desired.
Torrefying : of Torrefy
Torrens system : A system of registration of titles to land (as distinct from registration of deeds) introduced into South Australia by the Real Property (or Torrens) Act (act 15 of 1857-58), drafted by Sir Robert Torrens (1814-84). Its essential feature is the guaranty by the government of properly registered titles. The system has been generally adopted in Australia and British Columbia, and in its original or a modified form in some other countries, including some States of the United States. Hence Torrens title, etc.
Torrent : A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice. ;; Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence. ;; Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.

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