Definition of turn

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Turn (v. i.) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery..

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React :: React (v. i.) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state..
Elastic :: Elastic (a.) Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic..
Reverse :: Reverse (a.) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed..
Roll :: Roll (n.) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
Turn :: Turn (n.) A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county..
Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
Septennial :: Septennial (a.) Happening or returning once in every seven years; as, septennial elections in England..
Cam :: Cam (n.) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it..
Overset :: Overset (n.) An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage..
Bend :: Bend (n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
Farm :: Farm (v. t.) To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes..
Doubling :: Doubling (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known..
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..
Conversion :: Conversion (n.) The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change..
Cope :: Cope (v. t.) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
Subvert :: Subvert (v. t.) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound..
Retund :: Retund (v. t.) To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence..
Replication :: Replication (n.) Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo..
Homing :: Homing (a.) Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.
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