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Overset :: Overset (v. t.) To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building..

Alder :: Alder (n.) A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees..

Rummage :: Rummage (v. t.) To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf..

Turn :: Turn (n.) 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..

Strainable :: Strain (n.) Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain.

Zigzag :: Zigzag (n.) Something that has short turns or angles.

Round :: Round (adv.) Circularly; in a circular form or manner; by revolving or reversing one's position; as, to turn one's head round; a wheel turns round..

Whim :: Whim (n.) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes; -- called also whim gin, and whimsey..

Spherograph :: Spherograph (n.) An instrument for facilitating the practical use of spherics in navigation and astronomy, being constructed of two cardboards containing various circles, and turning upon each other in such a manner that any possible spherical triangle may be readily found, and the measures of the parts read off by inspection..

Recompense :: Recompense (v. t.) To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.

Silence :: Silence (n.) Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness..

Pikeman :: Pikeman (n.) A keeper of a turnpike gate.

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.

Retortion :: Retortion (v. t.) Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back.

Restitution :: Restitution (v.) That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation..

Reel :: Reel (n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel..

Turn :: Turn (n.) A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll..

Disturn :: Disturn (v. t.) To turn aside.

Wheel :: Wheel (v. t.) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle.

Reversion :: Reversion (n.) A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.

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