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torsi


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Torso  \Tor"so\,  n.;  pl  E.  {Torsos},  It  {Torsi}.  [It.  torso, 
  probably  fr  L.  thyrsus  a  stalk,  stem,  thyrsus,  Gr  ?;  cf 
  OHG.  torso,  turso,  a  stalk,  stem,  G.  dorsche  a  cabbage  stalk. 
  Cf  {Thyrsus},  {Truss}.] 
  The  human  body,  as  distinguished  from  the  head  and  limbs;  in 
  sculpture,  the  trunk  of  a  statue,  mutilated  of  head  and 
  limbs;  as  the  torso  of  Hercules. 




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