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Turn-out
n.
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The aggregate number of persons who have come out, as from their houses, for a special purpose.
Turn-out
n.
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Net quantity of produce yielded.
Turnover
n.
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The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage.
Turnover
n.
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A semicircular pie or tart made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials.
Turnover
n.
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An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.
Turnover
a.
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Admitting of being turned over; made to be turned over; as, a turnover collar, etc.
Turnpike
n.
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A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1.
Turnpike
n.
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A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate.
Turnpike
n.
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A turnpike road.
Turnpike
n.
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A winding stairway.
Turnpike
n.
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A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.
Turnpiked
imp. & p. p.
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of Turnpike
Turnpiking
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Turnpike
Turnpike
v. t.
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To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
Turnplate
n.
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A turntable.
Turn-sick
a.
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Giddy.
Turn-sick
n.
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A disease with which sheep are sometimes affected; gid; sturdy. See Gid.
Turnsole
a.
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A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.
Turnsole
a.
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The sunflower.
Turnsole
a.
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A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia).
Turnsole
a.
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The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora tinctoria.
Turnsole
a.
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Litmus.
Turnsole
a.
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A purple dye obtained from the plant turnsole. See def. 1 (d).
Turnspit
n.
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One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office.
Turnspit
n.
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A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting.
Turnstile
n.
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A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1.
Turnstile
n.
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A similar arrangement for registering the number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or the like.
Turnstone
n.
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Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake.
Turntable
n.
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A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.
Turnus
n.
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A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio, / Jasoniades, glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called also tiger swallowtail. See Illust. under Swallowtail.