Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee.
G. Eliot.
Tou"pet*tit (?), n. [See Topet, toupee.] (Zoöl.) The crested titmouse.
[Prov. Eng.]
Tour (?), n. [F. tour. See Tower.] A tower. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tour (?), n. [F. tour. See Turn, v. t.] 1. A going round; a circuit;
hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a
comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or
England.
The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour.
Milton.
2. A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies. [Obs.]
Blackmore.
3. (Mil.) anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as,
a tour of duty.
Syn. — Journey; excursion. See Journey.
Tour (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Touring.] To
make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country. T. Hughes.
Tou*ra"co (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Turacou.
Tour*bil"lion (?), n. [F. torbillion a whirlwind, tourbillion, fr. L.
turbo, -inis, a whirl, whirlwind.] An ornamental firework which turns
round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire. G. Francis.
Tour"ist (?), n. One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a
circuit.
Tour"ma*line (?), n. [F. tourmaline, cf. It. turmalina, tormalina, NL.
turmalina, turmalinus; all fr. tournamal, a name given to this stone in
Ceylon.] (Min.) A mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided
prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black
tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also
other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green,
brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are
valued as jewels. [Written also turmaline .]
Crystals of tourmaline when heated exhibit electric polarity (see
Pyroelectric, n.). Tourmaline is also used in the form of a polariscope
called tourmaline tongs.