turnips hell (ternipshel)

A shell of the family Turbinellidæ, and especially of the genus Rapa. See cut under Turbinella. turnip-tailed (ter'nip-tāld), a. Having a turnip-shaped, or napiform tail, swollen at the base and suddenly tapering: noting a gecko. turnip wood (tér'nip-wüd), n. The Australian rosewood, Synoum glandulosum. The wood when fresh is of a deep-red color and rose-scented. It is used a striker. Those were no true friends who helped to prolong the struggle by a isting the turn- outs . And this Boucherman was a turn - out , was he not? Mrs. Gaskell , North and South, xx. 4. A short side-track in a railway designed to enable one train to pa another.-5. People or things that have turned out; persons who have come out to see a spectacle, witne a performance at the theater, attend a public meeting, or the like.-6. A carriage or coach with the horses; also, carriages or equipages collec tively. The annual proce ion of his majesty's mails on the king's birthday was a sight equal, in the smartne of the whole equipment, to the best turnout of the Coaching or Four-in-hand clubs of our day. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, III. 50. 7. The net quantity of produce yielded; pro IMG:content-1108.png:[blocks in formation] Spons' Encyc. Manuf ., I. 10.