Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To dry or parch with heat; roast.
- Specifically— In metallurgy, to roast or scorch, as metallic ores.
- In pharmacy, to dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they become friable or are reduced to any state desired.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To dry by a fire.
- v. (Metal.) To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.
- v. (Pharm.) To dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they are friable, or are reduced to the state desired.
Etymologies
- Latin torrefaciō. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They generally torrefy it in the Embers, so strip off the Bark from the Root, beating it to a Consistence fit to spread, so lay it on the griev'd Part; which both cleanses a fowl Ulcer; and after Scarrification, being apply'd to a Contusion, or Swelling, draws forth the Pain, and reduces the Part to its pristine State of Health, as I have often seen effected.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘torrefy’.
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fire place
place to place 'fire' words
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learning
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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Interesting Words
crepuscular, myriad, serendipity, brouhaha, taupe, mushroom, vignette, babylon, frumpy, miasma, ornery, arraign and 19 more...
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Freerice
katabatic, cozen, depurate, entelechy, torrefy, talion, spatchcock, springhalt, poleyn, syncope, leister, palladium and 51 more...
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dry, diminished words
wanze, welew, welk, arefy, marcescible, wizen, parch, sere, xerarch, seral, psammosere, xerosere and 16 more...
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transformation
eigenvector, conversion, metaplasia, change, mutation, fermentation, pyrolysis, sublimation, powaqqatsi, vicissitude, veer, convert and 14 more...
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