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Timbuktoo
- - A city on the southern edge of the Sahara, in central Africa, some nine miles from the Niger. It is about three miles around, and was formerly surrounded by a clay wall. Timbuctoo has a large caravan trade, gold dust being the most important export. The people are negroes, Tuariks, Mandingoes, Arabs, Foolahs, etc. The city was founded in the 12th century, but was first seen by a white man in 1826. Timbuctoo now belongs to France, and a railroad is proposed to connect Algiers, Timbuctoo and Senegambia. Population, 13,000 (1893), greatly increased during the trading season from November to January.
Tittupped
- verb - to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
Tolbukhin
- noun - a city in northeastern Bulgaria (north of Varna) that is the commercial center of an agricultural region
Tonsuring
- verb - shave the head of a newly inducted monk
Torquated
- - Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.
Tortulous
- - Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.
Torturers
- noun - someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion)
Torturing
- verb - extremely painful
- subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
- the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
- torment emotionally or mentally