Definition of turn

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Turn (n.) Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn..

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Yellows :: Yellows (n.) A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus..
Twist :: Twist (v. t.) To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft..
Dash :: Dash (n.) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis..
Lock :: Lock (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him..
Calx :: Calx (n.) Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post..
Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A turnpike road.
Revenue :: Revenue (n.) Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise..
Reflexive :: Reflexive (a.) Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.
Cynosure :: Cynosure (n.) Anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction.
Catarrhine :: Catarrhine (n.) One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey..
Nyctitropic :: Nyctitropic (a.) Turning or bending at night into special positions.
Upset :: Upset (n.) The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset..
Averse :: Averse (v. t. & i.) To turn away.
Spell :: Spell (v. t.) To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman..
Cant :: Cant (n.) A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant..
Wind :: Wind (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole..
Latin :: Latin (n.) An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin..
Turning :: Turning (n.) The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road..
Rotation :: Rotation (n.) The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution..
Mazy :: Mazy (a.) Perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error..
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