Vocabulary : Tourmaline to Touse

Tourmaline : A mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels.
Tourn : A spinning wheel. ;; The sheriff's turn, or court.
Tournament : A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle. ;; Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.
Tournery : Work turned on a lathe; turnery.
Tourney : A tournament. ;; To perform in tournaments; to tilt.

Tourniquet : An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.
Tournois : A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.
Tournure : Turn; contour; figure. ;; Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.
Tousche : A lithographic drawing or painting material of the same nature as lithographic ink. It is also used as a resistant in the biting-in process.
Touse : Alt. of Touze ;; A pulling; a disturbance.

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