Tour"na*ment (?), n. [OE. turnement, tornement, OF. torneiement,
tornoiement, F. tournoiement a turning or wheeling round. See Tourney.]
1. A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a
number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address
and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle. "In battle and in
tourneyment." Chaucer.
With cruel tournament the squadrons join.
Milton.
It different from the joust, which was a trial of skill between one man
and another.
2. Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for
championship; as, a chess tournament.
Tourn"er*y (?), n. Work turned on a lathe; turnery. [Obs.] See Turnery.
Evelyn.
Tour"ney (?), n. [OF. tornei, tornoi, F. tournoi, fr. OF. torneier,
tornoier, tournoier, to tit, to tourney, F. tournoyer to turn round and
round. See Turn, v. t.] A tournament. Bacon.
At tilt or tourney or like warlike game.
Spenser.
We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for
half the work.
Tennyson.
Tour"ney, v. i. [Cf.OF. torneier. See Tourney, n. ] To perform in
tournaments; to tilt.
Well could he tourney, and in lists debate.
Spenser.
Tour"ni*quet (?), n. [F., fr. tourner to turn.] (Surg.) An instrument
for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress
upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or
other means.
||Tour`nois" (?), n. [F., belonging to Tours in France.] A former
||French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called
||in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.
||
||Tour*nure" (?), n. [F., fr. tourner to turn.]
||
1. Turn; contour; figure.
2. Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the
waist; a bustle.
{ Touse, Touze (?) }, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Toused (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tousing.] [OE. tosen √64. See tease, and cf. Tose, Toze. ] To pull;
to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] Shak.
As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed.
Spenser.
Touse (?), n. A pulling; a disturbance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.