Turn

tern, v. t. [turned (ternd), turning.] To form in a lathe; to give form to, shape, put in proper condition; to cause to move upon, or as if upon, a center; to give circular motion to, cause to revolve; to cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to incline differently; to change from a given use or office; to divert (to another purpose or end); to use or employ; to change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to cause to become sour, curdle, or ferment (milk, ale, etc.); to alter, transform, translate. — v. i. To move round, have a circular motion; to revolve, entirely, repeatedly, or partially to change position, so as to face differently; to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge, depend; to result or terminate, i ue; to be deflected, take a different direction or tendency, be differently applied; to be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; to become by changes; to undergo the proce of turning on a lathe; to become acid, sour, — said of milk, ale, etc.; to become giddy, — said of the head; to be nauseated, — said of the stomach; to become inclined in the other direction, — said of scales; to change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb, — said of the tide. — n. Act of turning; movement or motion about a center, or as if about a center; revolution; change of direction; different order, position, aspect of affairs, etc.; change; alteration; vici itude; succe ive portion of a course; reckoning from change to change; a winding; bend; brief walk; succe ive course; time, occasion, or opportunity for receiving or doing, coming in alternation to each of 2 or more persons; a nervous shock or sudden illne ; incidental or opportune deed or office; convenience; occasion; purpose; form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; form of expre ion; one round of a rope or cord. pi. (Med.) Monthly courses; menses. (Mus.) An embellishment or grace, marked thus, <^£), formed by grouping the principal note with the note above and the semitone below, the 3 being performed in the time of the principal note. — [turn, v. t.] To be turned of To be advanced beyond. — To turn a corner. To go round a corner. — To t. the enemy's flank. (Mil.) To pa from his front and attack his troops upon the side or rear. — To t. aside. To avert. — To t. away. To dismi from service, discard; to avert. — To down. To fold or double down. — To t. in. To fold or double under. — To t. in the mind. To revolve, ponder, or meditate upon. — To t. off. To dismi contemptuously; to give over, reduce; to divert, deflect; to accomplish, perform (work). — To t. one's cube, full; moon, fo"6t; cow, oil; linger money or goods, to turn a penny, etc. To exchange in the course of trade; to keep in lively exchange or circulation. — To t. out. To drive out; to expel: to put to pasture (cattle or horses); to produce, as the result of labor, or any proce of manufacture; to furnish in a completed state.— To t. over. To cause to change the sides of; to cause to roll over; to transfer; to open and examine one leaf of (a book) after another; to overset, overturn. — To t. tail. To retreat ignominiously. — To t. the back. To flee, retreat.— To t. the back on or upon. To treat with contempt; to reject or refuse unceremoniously. — To t. the edge of. To make dull, deprive of sharpne .— To t. the head or brain of. To make giddv, wild, insane, etc.; to infatuate.— To t. the scale. To change the preponderance, give superiority or succe . — To t. the stomach of. To nauseate, sicken. — To t. the tables. To reverse succe or superiority.— To t.to. To have recourse to, refer to. — To t. to profit, advantage, etc. To make profitable or advantageous. — To t. tip on. To retort, throw back. — [turn, v. »'.] To t. about. To move the face to another quarter. — To t. away. To deviate; to depart from, forsake; to avert one's looks, remove. — To t. in. To bend inward; to enter for lodgings or entertainment; to go to bed. — To t. off. To be diverted, deviate from a course. — To t. on or upon. To reply or retort; to show resentment toward, confront angrily; to depend on.— To t. out. To move from its Elace, as a Done; to bend outward, project; to rise rom bed; to come abroad, prove in the result, i ue. — To t. over. To turn from side to side, roll, tumble. —To t. to account, profit, advantage, etc. To be made \ profitable, become worth the while. — To t. under. j To bend or be folded downward or under. — To t. up. | To bend or be doubled upward; to come to light, ocj cur, happen.— [turn, n.] By turns. One after another; alternately; at intervals.— In turn. In due order of succe ion. — To at. Exactly; perfectly, — from the practice of cooking on a revolving spit.— To take turns. To alternate, succeed one another in due order.— Turn and t. about. An alternate share of duty. — T. of life (Med.). The time of the final ce ation of the menses in women; menopause. — Turn'coat, n. One who forsakes his party or principle; a renegade;; an apostate.— Turn'or, n. One who turns; esp., one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe; a variety of pigeon; one who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises,— so called: among the Germans. — Turn'ory, -er-T, n. Art of fashioning solid bodies into various forms by means of a lathe; things or forms made by a turner or in the lathe.— Turn 'ing, n. A winding; bending course; flexure; a corner (of a street or road); deviation from the way or proper course; act of forming solid substances into various forms by means of a lathe, pi. Pieces detached in the proce of turnery. (Mil.) A maneuver by which an enemy, or position, is turned. — Turning-point, n. The point upon which a question turns, and which decides a case. — Turn'key, n. One in charge of the keys of a prison; a warden. — Tura'pike, n. Orig. a frame consisting of 2 bars (originally with sharpened ends), cro ing each other at right angles, and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the pa age of beasts, but admitting a person to pa between the arms; a toll-gate, or gate set acro a road; a turnpike-road. — v. t. [turn piked (-pikt), -piking.] To form (a road) in the manner of a turnpike-road. — Tura'pike-road, n. A road on which turnpikes, or toll-gates, are established by law. — Turn's ole, n. (Bot.) A heliotrope, —because its flower is supposed to turn toward the sun. A leguminous plant; a purple dye obtained from it. A blue dye obtained fr. certain lichens. — Turn's pit, n. One who turns asp it; one engaged in some menial office; a variety of dog,— formerly employed to turn t. a spit. - Turnstile, n. A revolv- Turnstile, ing frame in a footpath; a turnpike. — Turn'-out, n.; pi. -outs. Act of coming forth; a short side track on a railroad; a shunt; an equipage. — o'ver, n. Act or result of turning over; a semi-circular pie made by turning one half a circular crust over tne other. or ink, , boNboN, chair, get. — -ta'ble, n. A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction. Turn-table. 482