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Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run..

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

Double :: Double (v. i.) To return upon one's track; to turn and go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction..

Plough :: Plough (n.) A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow..

Revert :: Revert (v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type..

Hedgehog :: Hedgehog (n.) A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects..

Arbor :: Arbor (n.) A mandrel in lathe turning.

Upset :: Upset (n.) The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset..

Check :: Check (v. i.) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds..

Loco :: Loco (adv.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.

Miserere :: Miserere (n.) A small projecting boss or bracket, on the under side of the hinged seat of a church stall (see Stall). It was intended, the seat being turned up, to give some support to a worshiper when standing. Called also misericordia..

Homing :: Homing (a.) Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.

Inflexed :: Inflexed (a.) Bent or turned abruptly inwards, or toward the axis, as the petals of a flower..

Kirked :: Kirked (a.) Turned upward; bent.

Tour :: Tour (v. t.) anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty..

Canceleer :: Canceleer (n.) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop..

Peristrephic :: Peristrephic (a.) Turning around; rotatory; revolving; as, a peristrephic painting (of a panorama)..

Crank :: Crank (n.) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage..

Periodical :: Periodical (a.) Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics..

Allegorize :: Allegorize (v. t.) To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people..

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