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TORREFY

\tˈɒɹɪfˌa͡ɪ], \tˈɒɹɪfˌa‍ɪ], \t_ˈɒ_ɹ_ɪ_f_ˌaɪ]\

Definitions of TORREFY

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary

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To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

To parch, to dry by heat.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

To scorch: to parch:-pa.t. and pa.p. torrefied.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

To parch; scorch.
Torrefaction.

1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman

To dry by a fire; to roast or scorch, as metals; to dry or parch, as drugs.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

To parch, roast, or dry by aid of heat.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

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