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Herisson :: Herisson (n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage..

Lopper :: Lopper (v. i.) To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk..

Troll :: Troll (v. t.) To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.

Diuturnity :: Diuturnity (n.) Long duration; lastingness.

Stitch :: Stitch (v. i.) A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn; as, to let down, or drop, a stitch; to take up a stitch..

Reflection :: Reflection (n.) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the reflection of a membrane..

Heliotropism :: Heliotropism (n.) The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers..

Ortygan :: Ortygan (n.) One of several species of East Indian birds of the genera Ortygis and Hemipodius. They resemble quails, but lack the hind toe. See Turnix..

Approvement :: Approvement (n.) a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States..

Deride :: Deride (v. t.) To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.

Epigram :: Epigram (n.) A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character..

Supination :: Supination (n.) The act of turning the hand palm upward; also, position of the hand with the palm upward..

Firk :: Firk (v. i.) To fly out; to turn out; to go off.

Saturn :: Saturn (n.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites..

Turner :: Turner (n.) A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.

Potto :: Potto (n.) A nocturnal mammal (Perodictius potto) of the Lemur family, found in West Africa. It has rudimentary forefingers. Called also aposoro, and bush dog..

Gee :: Gee (v. t.) To cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver..

Auger :: Auger (n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge..

Pintle :: Pintle (n.) A hook or pin on which a rudder hangs and turns.

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.

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