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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..

Flexion :: Flexion (n.) The act of flexing or bending; a turning.

Quaquaversal :: Quaquaversal (a.) Turning or dipping in any or every direction.

Detour :: Detour (n.) A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi..

Cock :: Cock (v. t.) To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim..

Strophic :: Strophe (n.) In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe..

Septennial :: Septennial (a.) Happening or returning once in every seven years; as, septennial elections in England..

Introversion :: Introversion (n.) The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward..

Pronation :: Pronation (n.) The act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward.

Turnstone :: Turnstone (n.) Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake..

Reviving :: Reviving (a. & n.) Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating.

Retroversion :: Retroversion (n.) A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus..

Acescent :: Acescent (a.) Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.

Volubile :: Volubile (a.) Turning, or whirling; winding; twining; voluble..

Return :: Return (n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis..

Reel :: Reel (n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel..

Wabble :: Wabble (v. i.) To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles..

Cylinder :: Cylinder (n.) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.

Turning :: Turning (n.) The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned..

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

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