Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To dry by a fire.
- transitive verb (Metal.) To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.
- transitive verb (Pharm.) To dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they are friable, or are reduced to the state desired.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To subject to
intense heat ; toparch , toroast .
Etymologies
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Latin torrefaciō.
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Examples
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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.
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