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.

The buttocks; -- a euphemism.

To bare or gnash the teeth.

See 2d Tusk, n., 2.

Furnished with tusks.

An elephant having large tusks.

Having tusks.

Pertaining to, or manifested by, cough.

An undomesticated East Indian silkworn (Antheraea mylitta), that feeds on the leaves of the oak and other plants.

Of or pertaining to a cough.

A cough.

Pertaining to a cough; caused by coughing.

A struggle; a scuffle.

A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge.

Having the form of tussocks; full of, or covered with, tussocks, or tufts.

See Tussock.

An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.

Having a projecting under jaw; prognathous.

A snub nose.

One who does tut-work.

Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, tutelary goddesses.

Tutelage.

Crude zinc. Packfong.

To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.

The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.

A woman who performs the duties of a tutor; an instructress.

Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.

A class{6} or short series of classes in which one or more instructors provide intensive instruction on some subject to a small group. Such short courses of instruction may be held at an institution of learning, or in any other place where a small group may desire a brief but thorough introduction to a topic.

Tutorship.

To teach; to instruct.

The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage.

Tutorage.

Tutoress.

A female guardian; a tutoress.

A plant of the genus Hypericum (Hypericum Androsoemum), from which a healing ointment is prepared in Spain; -- called also parkleaves.

All; -- a direction for all the singers or players to perform together.

A confection of different kinds of preserved fruits. Flavored with, or containing, various fruits.

A yellow or brown amorphous substance obtained as a sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces of zinc, and consisting of a crude zinc oxide.

Lit., thine; that which is thine; -- used in meum and tuum. See 2d Meum.

A kind of black jacket for semiformal evening dress made without tails, usually of black or dark blue color and having satin or grosgrain facing on the lapels; -- so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York.

A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge.

A lock or tuft of hair.

The tucan.

A form of hydrometer for liquids heavier than water, graduated with an arbitrary scale such that the readings when multiplied by .005 and added to unity give the specific gravity.

Silly talk; gabble; fustian.

One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.

a. n. from Twaddle, v.

Idle trifling; twaddle.

A lamb.

Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.

A piece of cleared ground. See Thwaite.

A harsh, quick sound, like that made by a stretched string when pulled and suddenly let go; as, the twang of a bowstring.

To twang.

To cause to make a sharp twanging sound; to twang, or twangle.

See Note under Tea, n., 1.

Act of prating; idle talk; twaddle.

One who twattles; a twaddler.

Two; twain.

Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis.

To tweak.

A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress.

A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose.

A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving.

To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.

See Twill.

Same as Tuy/re.

A surgeon's case of instruments.

Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.

The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.

An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.

See Twelfthtide.

The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches.

A unit for the measurement of small intervals of time, such that 1012 (ten trillion) of these units make one second.

The twelfth day after Christmas; Epiphany; -- called also Twelfth-day.

The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen.

See Duodecimo.

A year which consists of twelve calendar months.

A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents.

Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.