Definition of turn

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Turn (v. i.) To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales.

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Volute :: Volute (n.) A spiral turn, as in certain shells..
Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain..
Turnover :: Turnover (n.) The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage..
Indorsement :: Indorsement (n.) That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or other paper, as a name, an order for, or a receipt of, payment, or the return of an officer, etc.; a writing, usually upon the back, but sometimes on the face, of a negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is assigned and transferred..
Redhibition :: Redhibition (n.) The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect..
Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey..
Returning :: Returning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retur.
Pivot :: Pivot (n.) The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch..
Flipe :: Flipe (v. t.) To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on..
Ripost :: Ripost (n.) In fencing, a return thrust after a parry..
Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) designating a kind of hillside plow.
Winding :: Winding (n.) A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream..
Spica :: Spica (n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley..
Saturn :: Saturn (n.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time..
Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.
Subangular :: Subalternation (n.) The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.
Splay :: Splay (a.) Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders..
Lap :: Lap (v. i.) To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap..
Mouldboard :: Mouldboard (n.) A curved plate of iron (originally of wood) back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing..
Turn :: Turn (v. i.) 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..
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