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▪ I. torse1 Her.|tɔːs|
Also 6–9 torce.
[a. obs. F. torse, torce, fem. a wreath:—Romanic type *torsa, f. stem tors- for L. tort- from torquēre to twist.]
An occasional term for the twisted band or wreath by which the crest is joined to the helmet.
1572J. Bossewell Armourie ii. 60 b, For the Creaste uppon the Helme an Hiricion passante, of the Diamonde, charged with Grapes propre, sett on a torce, Pearle and Emeraude. 1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox x. 265 A Milk⁓white Plume shadowed the Torse of his glittering Helmet. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Wreath,..a Torce between the Mantle and the Crest. 1892E. Castle Eng. Bk.-plates 92 The crest is supported by a plain torce. 1910E. R. Suffling Eng. Ch. Brasses 124 A torse, or wreath of two bands of coloured silk.
Hence torsed |tɔːst| a., also torced, furnished with a torse.
1892E. Castle Eng. Book-plates 51 The crested, torced, and mantletted helm.
▪ II. torse2|tɔːs|
[a. F. torse masc. (16th c.), ad. It. torso.]
= torso.
1622Peacham Compl. Gent. xii. (1634) 110 To Painters for the picturing of some excellent arme, leg, torse or wreathing of the body, or any other rare posture. 1762Goldsm. Cit. W. xxxiv, The torse..is at last discovered to be a Hercules spinning, and not a Cleopatra bathing. 1892Ld. Lytton King Poppy v. 78 The necessary quantity of heads To suit the growing torse.
▪ III. torse3 Geom.|tɔːs|
[f. med.L. tors-us, -um, for L. tort-us twisted.]
A developable surface; a surface generated by a moving straight line which at every instant is turning, in some plane or other through it, about some point or other in its length.
1863Cayley Math. Papers (1892) V. 182 By Torse (m, n) I denote the developable surface or ‘Torse’ generated by a line which meets each of the curves m and n. 1879― in Encycl. Brit. X. 417 If the system be such that a line does not intersect the consecutive line, then the surface is a skew surface, or scroll; but if it be such that each line intersects the consecutive line, then it is a developable, or torse. |