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Turn
v. i.
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To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan.
Turn
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To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.
Turn
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To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc.
Turn
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To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain.
Turn
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To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach.
Turn
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To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales.
Turn
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To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide.
Turn
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To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
Turn
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To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
Turn
n.
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The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.
Turn
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Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide.
Turn
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One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander.
Turn
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A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll.
Turn
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Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time.
Turn
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Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn.
Turn
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Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn.
Turn
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Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.
Turn
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A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn.
Turn
n.
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A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given.
Turn
n.
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A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat.
Turn
n.
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A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
Turn
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A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county.
Turn
n.
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Monthly courses; menses.
Turn
n.
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An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /.
Turnbroach
n.
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A turnspit.
Turn-buckle
n.
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A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc.
Turn-buckle
n.
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A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp.
Turnbull's blue
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The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, used in dyeing, calico printing, etc. Cf. Prussian blue, under Prussian.
Turncoat
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One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.
Turnep
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See Turnip.