Turn

turn, v.i. to whirl round: to hinge: to depend: to i ue: to take a different direction or tendency: to become by a change, hence to rebel: to return: to be fickle: to result: to be shaped on the lathe: to sour: to become giddy: to be nauseated: to change from ebb to flow or from flow to ebb: to become inclined in the other direction.— v.t. to cause to revolve: to reverse: to pa round: to direct, apply: to send, drive: to fold, remake: to translate: to make sour: to change the position or the direction of: to nauseate, to make giddy: to direct the mind to: to infatuate or make mad: to cause to return with profit: to transfer: to convert: to form in a lathe: to shape: to round: to adapt: to blunt.— n. act of turning: new direction or tendency, disposition: a walk to and fro: chance: a turning-point, crisis: ( mus. ) a melodic embellishment, consisting of a principal tone with two auxiliary tones lying respectively next above and below it: a spell of work, a job: ( coll. ) a nervous shock: change: a winding: a bend: form: manner: opportunity, convenience: act of kindne or malice: a type turned upside down, owing to a temporary want of the proper letter.— ns. Turn′about , a merry-go-round; Turn′back , the strap from the hames to the hip-strap; Turn′buckle , a form of coupling so arranged as to regulate the length or tension of the connected parts; Turn′-cap , a chimney-cowl rotating on a vertical axis; Turn′coat , one who turns his coat—that is, abandons his principles or party; Turn′cock , one who turns on the water for the mains, regulates the fire-plugs, ., of a water company.— adj. Turn′-down , folded down.— ns. Turn′er , one who, or that which, turns: a tumbler, gymnast, esp. a member of the German Turn ver eine or gymnastic bodies, instituted by F. L. Jahn in 1811; Turn′ery , art of turning or of shaping by a lathe: things made by a turner, also the place where these are made: ornamentation by means of the lathe; Turn′ing , a winding: deviation from the proper course: turnery, the art of shaping wood, metal, ivory, or other hard substances into forms having a curved (generally circular or oval) transverse section, and also of engraving figures composed of curved lines upon a smooth surface, by means of a turning-lathe: ( mil. ) a manœuvre for turning an enemy's position: in pottery, the shaping of a vase: ( pl. ) chips; Turn′ing-lathe , a lathe used by turners; Turn′ing-point , the point on which a question turns, and which decides the case: a grave and critical period; Turn′ing-rest , a support on a lathe serving as a fulcrum for a hand turning-tool; Turn′ing-saw , a thin-bladed saw contrived for cutting curved wood for chair-backs, .—also Sweep-saw , Frame-saw , Scroll-saw ; Turn′ing-steel , a piece of hard bar-steel for turning the edge of a tool, .; Turn′ing-tool , a tool for shaping the cutting edges of the tools used in seal-engraving; Turn′key , one who turns the keys in a prison: a warder; Turn′-out , the act of coming forth: a strike: a striker: a crowd of spectators: a carriage and its horses: quantity of produce yielded.— adj. Turn′over , made to be turned over or reversed.— n. act of turning over, upset, overthrow: a small pie made by turning half of the circular crust over the other which has been covered with fruit, .: an apprentice turned over to a new master to complete his apprenticeship: the total amount of the sales in a busine for a specified time.— ns. Turn′pike , a gate set acro a road to stop those liable to toll: a turnpike-road—originally a frame consisting of two cro -bars armed with pikes, and turning on a post; Turn′pike-man , a man who collects tolls at a tollgate; Turn′pike-road , a road on which turnpikes or tollgates are established; Turn′-screw , a screw-driver; Turn′skin , a werewolf; Turn′spit , one who turns a spit: a person engaged in some menial occupation: a long-bodied, short-legged dog employed to drive a wheel by which roasting-spits were turned—closely allied to the Dachshund (q.v.); Turn′stile , a revolving frame in a footpath which prevents the pa age of cattle, but allows the pa age of one person at a time; Turn′stile-reg′ister , a device for recording the number of persons pa ing through a turnstile; Turn′stone , a small grallatorial bird, intermediate between the true plovers and sandpipers, so called from its habit of turning over pebbles on the beach in search of food; Turn′-ta′ble (same as Traverse-table ); Turn′-up , a disturbance: something that appears unexpectedly.— Turn about , to move the face or front to another quarter; Turn about , Turn and turn about , alternately; Turn a , or the , corner (see Corner ); Turn a deaf ear to , to ignore; Turn adrift , to unmoor and let float away: to cast off; Turn again , to return: to make a stand; Turn against , to use to the injury of: to render hostile: to rebel against; Turn an enemy's flank , line , or position , to manœuvre so as to attack an enemy in the rear: to outwit; Turn a penny (see Penny ); Turn around one's finger , to make any one subservient to one's will; Turn aside , to avert; to deviate: to avert the face; Turn away , to dismi from service, to discharge: to avert, to look in another direction: to deviate, to depart from; Turn back , to cause to retreat: to return; Turn down , to double or fold down: to hide the face of: to le en or lower; Turn forth , to expel; Turn in , to bend inward: to enter: ( coll. ) to go to bed; Turn into , to become by a proce of change; Turn off , to deviate: to dismi : to divert: to complete, achieve by labour: to shut off: ( slang ) to hang; Turn on , to set running (as water): to depend on: to confront in fight; Turn one's hand to , to apply one's self; Turn one's head , or brain , to make one giddy: to fill with pride or conceit; Turn out , to drive out, to expel: to put to pasture (as cattle): to make for market or for use: to project: to prove in the result: to muster: to leave one's work to take part in a strike: ( coll. ) to get out of bed; Turn over , to roll over: to change sides: to sell goods to the amount of: to examine by turning the leaves; Turn round , to reverse one's position or party; Turn the back , to flee, to retreat; Turn the back upon , to quit with contempt, to forsake; Turn the edge of , to blunt; Turn the scale , to decide, determine; Turn the stomach , to nauseate; Turn to , to have recourse to: to point to: to result in; Turn turtle (see Turtle ); Turn up , to point upwards: to appear, happen: place with face up: to bring the point uppermost: to refer to in a book; Turn upon , to cast back upon, retort; Turn upside down , to throw into complete confusion.— Be turned of , to have advanced beyond—of age; By turns , one after another: at intervals; Ill turn , an injurious act: a change for the worse; In turn , in order of succe ion; Not to turn a hair , to be quite undisturbed or unaffected; On the turn , at the turning-point, changing; Serve a turn , to answer the purpose; Take one's turn , to occupy one's allotted place; Take turns , to take each the other's place alternately; To a turn , exactly, perfectly. [A.S. tyrnan ; Ger. turnen ; Fr. tourner ; all from L. tornāre , to turn in a lathe— torn us , a turner's wheel—Gr. tornos .]