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Definition of tort

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Tort (n.) Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury..

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Polt-footed :: Polt-footed (a.) Having a distorted foot, or a clubfoot or clubfeet..

Chelonian :: Chelonian (a.) Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind.

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To bend; to cause to kink, or to become distorted..

Pain :: Pain (n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart..

Intortion :: Intortion (n.) See Intorsion.

Cruciate :: Cruciate (v. t.) To torture; to torment. [Obs.] See Excruciate.

Shell :: Shell (n.) The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like..

Retorsion :: Retorsion (n.) Same as Retortion.

Extorter :: Extorter (n.) One who practices extortion.

Writhe :: Writhe (v. t.) To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring..

Clubhand :: Clubhand (n.) A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand..

Writhe :: Writhe (v. t.) To extort; to wring; to wrest.

Elodian :: Elodian (n.) One of a tribe of tortoises, including the terrapins, etc., in which the head and neck can be withdrawn..

Ellachick :: Ellachick (n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.

Deformed :: Deformed (a.) Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head..

Torment :: Torment (v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture..

Engine :: Engine (v. t.) (Pronounced, in this sense, /////.) To rack; to torture..

Thumbkin :: Thumbkin (n.) An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.

Excruciate :: Excruciate (a.) Excruciated; tortured.

Potamian :: Potamian (n.) A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx..