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▪ I. torn, ppl. a.|tɔːn|
[pa. pple. of tear v.1, q.v. for Forms.]
a. Rent or riven by being pulled violently asunder; wearing torn garments.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 111 In A toren Tabart of twelue Wynter Age. c1425Cast. Persev. 109 in Macro Plays 80 Þer schal com a lythyr ladde with a torne hod. 1552Huloet, Torne garmentes, lacides. a1631Donne Hymn to Christ 1 In what torne shipp soever I embark. 1693Dryden Juvenal i. 159 Tho born a Slave, tho my torn Ears are bor'd. a1750Nursery Rime, ‘House that Jack Built’ viii, This is the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxxiii, A rent and torn ravine resembling a deserted watercourse. 1839Darwin Voy. Nat. x. (1873) 210 Masses of rock and torn-up trees. 1860Reade Cloister & H. lxxi, The poor torn, worn creature wept. 1861J. Barr Poems 119 (E.D.D.) Like some torn⁓doun play actor, That had sung for his bread thro' a fair.
b. spec. Bot.: see quots.; also in comb.
[1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. (1776) 384 Lacerum, lacerate, where the Margin is variously divided, as if torn.] 1888Cassell's Encycl. Dict., Torn,..Bot., irregularly divided by deep incisions. 1895Funk's Standard Dict., Torn-crenate, Bot., crenate by a torn margin.
c. In combination with adverbs, as torn-off, torn-out, torn-up; also torn-down: (a) that has been rent or pulled down; (b) fig. rough, riotous, boisterous, disorderly (dial. and U.S.); reduced in circumstances (Sc. and dial.); also n., a rough riotous person.
1870W. M. Baker New Timothy xxxii. (U.S.). 1877–88in N.W. Linc. Gloss. 1886in S.W. Linc. Gloss. 1933S. Spender Poems 40 Through torn-down portions of old fabric. 1953K. Reisz Technique Film Editing i. 35 Other fragments of the torn-down statue of the Czar reassembling.
▪ II. torn
obs. f. tourn (sheriff's court), turn. |