Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TOR'RID, a. [L. torridus, from torreo, to roast.]

1. Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.
2. Violently hot; burning or parching; as, a torrid heat. Milton. Torrid zone, in geography, that space or broad belt of the earth included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period every year, and where the heat is always great.