The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.

A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.

A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.

A petrified shell resembling a member of the genus Turbo.

Like or pertaining to Turbo or the family Turbinidae.

A fossil turbo.

See Turpeth.

Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.

Sontaining or using a turbine; -- a combining form; as, turbojet.

An electric generator or dynamo which is combined on one frame with a turbomotor, by which it is driven.

A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke. Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California. The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda. The trigger fish.

The quality or state of being turbulent; a disturbed state; tumult; disorder; agitation.

Turbulence.

Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.

In a turbulent manner.

A mode of speech peculiar to the Turks; a Turkish idiom or expression; also, in general, a Turkish mode or custom. Same as Turkism.

A member of a tribe of Turanians inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea.

A division of singing birds including the thrushes and allied kinds.

A genus of singing birds including the true thrushes.

A large, deep vessel for holding soup, or other liquid food, at the table.

As much as a tureen can hold; enough to fill a tureen.

To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank, or the border of a terrace.

Made of turf; covered with turf.

Quality or state of being turfy.

The act or process of providing or covering with turf.

A votary of the turf, or race course; hence, sometimes, a blackleg.

Destitute of turf.

A turfite; a votary of the turf, or race course.

Abounding with turf; made of, or covered with, turf.

Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors.

To become turgid; to swell or be inflated.

The act of swelling, or the state of being swollen, or turgescent.

Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.

The quality or state of being turgid.

Turgid.

A shoot or sprout from the ground.

The golden oriole.

Same as Turio.

Producing shoots, as asparagus.

A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey.

A knot of turbanlike form worked on a rope with a piece of small line.

Turkish.

Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America.

An eccentric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart and with a characteristic rise on the ball of the foot, followed by a drop upon the heel. The original form, owing to the positions assumed by the dancers, is offensively suggestive. Similar dances are the bunny hug and grizzly bear, so called in allusion to the movements and the positions assumed by the partners in dancing.

Turkish.

Turkish.

Turquois.

Of or pertaining to Turkey or the Turks. The language spoken by Turks, esp. that of the people of Turkey.

A Turkish idiom or expression; also, in general, a Turkish mode or custom. Same as Turcism.

A turtle.

One of a body of native Algerian tirailleurs in the French army, dressed as a Turk.

A member of any race of the Turko-Iranian type.

Turquoise.

Same as Turcoman.

One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc.

A troop; a company.

See Tourmaline.

Of or pertaining to turmeric; resembling, or obtained from, turmeric; specif., designating an acid obtained by the oxidation of turmerol.

Turmeric oil, a brownish yellow, oily substance extracted from turmeric by ligroin.

The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.

A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc. A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp.

The act of coming forth; a leaving of houses, shops, etc.; esp., a quitting of employment for the purpose of forcing increase of wages; a strike; -- opposed to lockout.

A disease with which sheep are sometimes affected; gid; sturdy. See Gid.

A turnspit.

One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate; a defector to the enemy.

An act of refusing or of being refused; as, to get a turndown in an application for a job, a grant, etc.

See Turnip.

A person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises.

A variety of monazite.

The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.

Tourney.

A building used as a school of gymnastics.

A division of birds including Turnix and allied genera, resembling quails in appearance but differing from them anatomically.

The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a flexure; a meander.

The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation.

The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.

Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.

Any one of numerous species of birds belonging to Turnix or Hemipodius and allied genera of the family Turnicidae. These birds resemble quails and partridges in general appearance and in some of their habits, but differ in important anatomical characteristics. The hind toe is usually lacking. They are found in Asia, Africa, Southern Europe, the East Indian Islands, and esp. in Australia and adjacent islands, where they are called quails (see Quail, n., 3.). See Turnicimorphae.

A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder.

Of or pertaining to a building, complex device, system, or industrial installation which is sold by a contractor only after it is ready for immediate occupation or use; fully functional and ready for use; -- used of complex systems of a type which often require preparation or installation by the user before being capable of functioning as intended; as, a turnkey ethylene production plant; a turnkey apartment building.

Admitting of being turned over; made to be turned over; as, a turnover collar, etc.

To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; to throw into a rounded form, as the path of a road.

A turntable.

A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun. The sunflower. A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia). The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora tinctoria.

One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office.

A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1.

Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake.

A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.

A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio glaucus syn. Jasoniades glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called also tiger swallowtail. See Illust. under Swallowtail.

A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.

Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent. Designating a kind of hillside plow.

One of the subdivisions into which the Upper Cretaceous formation of Europe is divided.

A semifluid or fluid oleoresin, primarily the exudation of the terebinth, or turpentine, tree (Pistacia Terebinthus), a native of the Mediterranean region. It is also obtained from many coniferous trees, especially species of pine, larch, and fir.

The root of Ipom/a Turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar, and Australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; -- sometimes called vegetable turpeth.

A land tortoise.

Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity.

A hydrous phosphate of alumina containing a little copper; calaite. It has a blue, or bluish green, color, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface.

Having a fine light blue color, like that of choice mineral turquoise.

A certain tool used by coopers.

Furnished with a turret or turrets; specifically (Zool.), having the whorls somewhat flattened on the upper side and often ornamented by spines or tubercles; -- said of certain spiral shells.

A turban.

Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower.

Furnished with, or formed like, a small turret or turrets; somewhat turreted.

Any fossil ammonite of the genus Turrilites. The shell forms an open spiral with the later whorls separate.

Any spiral marine gastropod belonging to Turritella and allied genera. These mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls. They have a rounded aperture, and a horny multispiral operculum.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the turritellas.

The turtledove.

Slow-footed.

The turtle cowrie.

A rude stone celt of a form suggesting the back of a turtle.

An American perennial herb (Chelone glabra) having white flowers shaped like the head of a turtle. Called also snakehead, shell flower, and balmony.

One who catches turtles or tortoises.

The act, practice, or art of catching turtles.

pl. of Turf.

A native or inhabitant of Tuscany.

A tribe of North American Indians formerly living on the Neuse and Tar rivers in North Carolina. They were conquered in 1713, after which the remnant of the tribe joined the Five Nations, thus forming the Six Nations. See Six Nations, under Six.

A tush of a horse.

A long, pointed tooth; a tusk; -- applied especially to certain teeth of horses.

The buttocks; -- a euphemism.