Definition of turn

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Turn (v. i.) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide..

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Anniversary :: Anniversary (a.) Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast..
Avert :: Avert (v. i.) To turn away.
Twine :: Twine (v. i.) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
Lopper :: Lopper (v. i.) To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk..
Grind :: Grind (v. i.) To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.
Torsion :: Torsion (n.) The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction..
Turn :: Turn (n.) 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..
Wheel :: Wheel (v. i.) To turn on an axis, or as on an axis; to revolve; to more about; to rotate; to gyrate..
Quartan :: Quartan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days..
Reverberate :: Reverberate (v. t.) To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat..
Answer :: Answer (n.) Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action..
Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) designating a kind of hillside plow.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To turn to the one side or the other, in order to point in any direction; as, to traverse a cannon..
Race :: Race (n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race..
Volution :: Volution (n.) A spiral turn or wreath.
Hoe :: Hoe (v. t.) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with a hoe; as, to hoe the earth in a garden; also, to clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe; as, to hoe corn..
Gong :: Gong (n.) An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise..
Seal :: Seal (n.) An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap..
Revolve :: Revolve (v. t.) To cause to turn, as on an axis..
Fork :: Fork (v. t.) To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil..
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