Torso

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  torso
       n : the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved
           their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: {trunk}, {body}]
       [also: {torsi} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "torso":
     anatomy, body, bones, carcass, clay, clod, corpus, figure, flesh,
     form, frame, hulk, material body, person, physical body, physique,
     soma, trunk