torrify
Americanverb (used with object)
Example Sentences
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Printing has substituted flimsy paper for parchment just as the pen substituted parchment for waxen tablets, as the stylus substituted the latter for the far more enduring leaflet of torrified clay.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper
This is also observable in the color of the flame while the ore is torrified.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
A good Turinese would rather have no dinner at all than sit down to one without a good-sized bundle of these torrified reeds on his right or left.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 by Various
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