torso : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: torso	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for torso
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
torso n the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" Synonym(s): torso, trunk, body
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.