Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Tortive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tortive \Tor"tive\, a. [L. tortus, p. p. of torquere to twist,
wind.]
Twisted; wreathed. --Shak.
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