Tourney
(Tour"ney) n. [OF. tornei, tornoi, F. tournoi, fr. OF. torneier, tornoier, tournoier, to tit, to
tourney, F. tournoyer to turn round and round. See Turn, v. t.] A tournament. Bacon.
At tilt or tourney or like warlike game.
Spenser.
We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn,
And there is scantly time for half the work.
Tennyson. Tourney
(Tour"ney), v. i. [Cf.OF. torneier. See Tourney, n. ] To perform in tournaments; to tilt.
Well could he tourney, and in lists debate.
Spenser. Tourniquet
(Tour"ni*quet) n. [F., fr. tourner to turn.] (Surg.) 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
(||Tour`nois") n. [F., belonging to Tours in France.] 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
(||Tour*nure") n. [F., fr. tourner to turn.]
1. Turn; contour; figure.
2. Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.
Touse
(Touse, Touze) , v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Toused ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tousing.] [OE. tosen &radic64.
See tease, and cf. Tose, Toze. ] To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] Shak.
As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed.
Spenser. Touse
(Touse) n. A pulling; a disturbance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Tousel
(Tous"el) v. t. Same as Tousle. [Colloq.]
Touser
(Tous"er) n. One who touses. [Prov. Eng.]
Tousle
(Tou"sle) v. t. [Freq. of touse. Cf.Tossle.] To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse. [Colloq.]
Tous-les-mois
(Tous`-les`-mois") n. [F., all the months, i.e., every month.] A kind of starch with very
large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is
made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible
every month in the year.
Tout
(Tout) v. i. [See 1st Toot.]
1. To act as a tout. See 2d Tout. [Cant. Eng.]
2. To ply or seek for customers. [Prov. Eng.]
Tout
(Tout), n. One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information
about their capabilities, for use in betting. [Cant. Eng.]
Tout
(Tout), v. i. [See 3d Toot. ] To toot a horn.
Tout
(Tout), n. The anus. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tout-ensemble
(||Tout`-en`sem"ble) n. [F.] All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general
effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts.
