Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Torpedinous \Tor*ped"i*nous\, a.
   Of or pertaining to a torpedo; resembling a torpedo; exerting
   a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid.

         Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous was his manner. --De
                                                  Quincey.