turnpike stair

A winding stair, constructed around a central newel or post. tūrn-pike, v . t . [TURNPIKE, 8.] To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike-road; to throw into a rounded form, as the path of a road. türn-sick, a. & s. [Eng. turn , and sick .] *A. As adj .: Giddy; vertiginous; dizzy. "If a man see another turn swiftly and long, or if he look upon wheels that turn, himself waxeth turn sick ." IMG:content-1578.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Botany: (1) Euphorbia helios cop i a . It is an annual, generally glabrous plant, with obovate leaves, serrate upward, an umbel of five principal branches, trifid or bifid, and reticulated and pitted seeds. Its milky juice is used to destroy warts. (2) Crozophora tinct or i a , and the purple dye made of its inspi ated juice. [CROZOPHORA.] (3) The genus Heliotropium. ( Loudon. .) (4) The genus Helianthus (q. v.), spec. H. annuus. [SUNFLOWER.] 2. Art : A blue pigment obtained from the lichen Roccella ( Roccella tinct or i a ) , also called Archil. tūrn'-spit, s . [Eng. turn , and spit (1), s.] 1. A person who turns a spit. "A place he will grow rich in, A turaspit in the royal kitchen." Swift : Miscellanies. 2. A variety of dog, allied to the terrier, formerly employed to turn the spit for roasting meat in a kitchen, for which purpose they were attached to or inclosed in a kind of wheel. [TREAD-WHEEL.] The breed, which is now rare, arose from a cro of the terrier with larger breeds; the body long and heavy, with disproportionately short and generally crooked legs.