turban stone

A carved representation of a turban usually placed over tombstones in Mohammedan cemeteries. "A headstone, which if it is not the turban - stone that is usually found in Turkish tombs of modern date, is most singularly like it."-Fergu on: Rude Stone Monu turban-top, s. ments , p. 404. Bot.: A popular name for a fungus of the genus Helvella. turban le tür-ban-lě , adj. [Eng. turban; -le .] Destitute of or not wearing a turban. "Then we saw a vision of a brown turban le head at the back of the verandah."- Field , Oct. 15, 1887. tur-bar-ỹ, *tür-bar-le, s. [Low Lat.turbaria.] [TURF, 8.] 1. Ord. Lang.: A place where turf is dug. "The animal is undoubtedly found in the turbaries of Britain." Dawkins : Early Man in Britain , ch. viii. 2. Law : The right of digging turf on another man's land. "Common of turbary is a liberty of digging turf upon another man's ground."-Black stone: Comment., bk. ii., ch. 3. tür-běl-lär-i-a, s . pl . [Mod. Lat., from turbo (q. v.).] Zoöl.: An order of Platelminthes; flat worms of low organization, ribbon-shaped, leaf-shaped, oval, broad, or long, inhabiting fresh or salt water, or damp localities on land. The smallest are not larger than some of the Infusoria, which they approach in appearance, while the largest are many feet long. Only one genus, Alaurina, is divided into distinct segments, and the outer surface of the body is everywhere beset with vibratile cilia. The aper ture of the mouth is sometimes situated at the anterior end of the body, sometimes in the middle, or toward the posterior end of its ventral face. In many the oral aperture is surrounded by a flexible muscular lip, which sometimes takes the form of a protrusile proboscis. All have water-ve els, opening externally by ciliated pores, and pseudhæmal ve els; most po e eyes, and some have auditory sacs. Some are moncæcio us, and others diœcio us; in most the embryo pa es by insensible gradations into the form of the adult, but some undergo a remarkable metamorphosis. The Turbellaria are variously divided by different authors. Huxley divides them into Aprocta (having no anal aperture) and Proctucha (having an anal aperture), The first group contains the Rhabdocæla and Dendrocela of other authors; the second is equivalent to the Rhynchocœla or Nemertea (q. v.).