Torpedo

Name: American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 - Torpedo
Author: Noah Webster

TORPE’DO, n. [L. from torpeo, to be numb.] The cramp fish or electric ray, Raia torpedo. This fish is usually taken in forty fathoms water, on the coast of France and England, and in the Mediterranean. A touch of this fish occasions a numbness in the limb, accompanied with an indescribable and painful sensation, and is really an electric shock. When dead,the fish loses its power of producing this sensation.

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Chicago: Noah Webster Jr., "Torpedo," American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), Original Sources, accessed July 13, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4MJTWXP7C9YUQK4.

MLA: Webster, Noah, Jr. "Torpedo." American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, New York, S. Converse, 1828, Original Sources. 13 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4MJTWXP7C9YUQK4.

Harvard: Webster, N, 'Torpedo' in American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2. cited in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, S. Converse, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 13 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4MJTWXP7C9YUQK4.