Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Torso

Torso , noun

[Italian torso, probably from Latin thyrsus a stalk, stem, thyrsus, Greek {not transcribed}; compare Old High German torso, turso, a stalk, stem, German dorsche a cabbage stalk. Compare 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.