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Photodrome :: Photodrome (n.) An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction..

Remeant :: Remeant (a.) Coming back; returning.

Key :: Key (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc..

Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend..

Contraversion :: Contraversion (n.) A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe.

Button :: Button (n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door..

Verticity :: Verticity (n.) The quality or power of turning; revolution; rotation.

Pivotal :: Pivotal (a.) Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a battle..

Flexure :: Flexure (n.) The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending..

Introrse :: Introrse (a.) Turning or facing inward, or toward the axis of the part to which it belongs..

Annual :: Annual (n.) A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.

Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle..

Regratiatory :: Regratiatory (n.) A returning or giving of thanks.

Pirouette :: Pirouette (n.) A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing.

Dextrorse :: Dextrorse (a.) Turning from the left to the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common morning-glory..

Spoked :: Spoke (n.) A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill..

Regular :: Regular (a.) Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course, practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular habits..

Overturning :: Overturning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overtur.

Revulsion :: Revulsion (n.) The act of turning or diverting any disease from one part of the body to another. It resembles derivation, but is usually applied to a more active form of counter irritation..

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