Tumbrel – Tutenag

Tumbrel

TUM'BREL, noun

1. A ducking stool for the punishment of scolds.

2. A dung-cart.

3. A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, for conveying the tools of pioneers, cartridges and the like.

Tumbril

TUM'BRIL, noun A contrivance of the basket kind, or a kind of cage of osiers, willows, etc. for keeping hay and other food for sheep.

Tumefaction

TUMEFAC'TION, noun [Latin tumefacio, to make tumid. See Tumid.] The act or process of swelling or rising into a tumor; a tumor; a swelling.

Tumefied

TU'MEFIED, participle passive [from tumefy.] Swelled; enlarged; as a tumefied joint.

Tumefy

TU'MEFY, verb transitive [Latin tumefacio; tumidus, tumeo, and facio.]

To swell, or cause to swell.

TU'MEFY, verb intransitive To swell; to rise in a tumor.

Tumefying

TU'MEFYING, participle present tense Swelling; rising in a tumor.

Tumid

TU'MID, adjective [Latin tumidus, from tumeo, to swell.]

1. Being swelled, enlarged or distended; as a tumid leg; tumid flesh.

2. Protuberant; rising above the level.

So high as heav'd the tumid hills.

3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; bombastic; falsely sublime; as a tumid expression; a tumid style.

Tumidly

TU'MIDLY, adverb In a swelling form.

Tumidness

TU'MIDNESS, noun A swelling or swelled state.

Tumite

TU'MITE, noun A mineral. [See Thummerstone.]

Tumor

TU'MOR, noun [Latin from tumeo, to swell.] In surgery, a swelling; a morbid enlargement of any part of the body; a word of very comprehensive signification.

The morbid enlargement of a particular part, without being caused by inflammation.

Any swelling which arises from the growth of distinct superfluous parts or substances, which did not make any part of the original structure of the body, or from a morbid increase in the bulk of other parts, which naturally and always existed in the human frame.

The term tumor is limited by Abernathy to such swellings as arise from new productions, and includes only the sarcomatous and encysted tumors.

An encysted tumor is one which is formed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance. There are also fatty tumors, called lipomatous or adipose, (adipose sarcoma, ) formed by an accumulation of fat in a limited extent of the cellular substance.

1. Affected pomp; bombast in language; swelling word or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. [Little used.]

Tumored

TU'MORED, noun Distended; swelled.

Tumorous

TU'MOROUS, adjective Swelling; protuberant.

1. Vainly pompous; bombastic; as language or style. [Little used.]

Tump

TUMP, noun [infra.] A little hillock.

TUMP, verb transitive [Latin tumulus. See Tomb.] In gardening, to form a mass of earth or a hillock round a plant; as, to tump teasel. [This English phrase is not used in America, but it answers nearly to our hilling. See Hill.]

Tumped

TUMP'ED, participle passive Surrounded with a hillock of earth.

Tumping

TUMP'ING, participle present tense Raising a mass of earth round a plant.

Tumular

TU'MULAR, adjective [Latin tumulus, a heap.] Consisting in a heap; formed or being in a heap or hillock.

Tumulate

TU'MULATE, verb intransitive To swell. [Not in use.]

Tumulosity

TUMULOS'ITY, noun [infra.] Hilliness.

Tumulous

TU'MULOUS, adjective [Latin tumulosus.] Full of hills.

Tumult

TU'MULT, noun [Latin tumultus, a derivative from tumeo, to swell.]

1. The commotion, disturbance or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar and confusion of voices.

What meaneth the noise of this tumult? 1 Samuel 4:14.

Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose.

2. Violent commotion or agitation with confusion of sounds; as the tumult of the elements.

3. Agitation; high excitement; irregular or confused motion; as the tumult of the spirits or passions.

4. Bustle; stir.

TU'MULT, verb intransitive To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.

Tumultuarily

TUMULT'UARILY, adverb [from tumultuary.] In a tumultuary or disorderly manner.

Tumultuariness

TUMULT'UARINESS, noun Disorderly or tumultuous conduct; turbulence; disposition to tumult.

Tumultuary

TUMULT'UARY, adjective [Latin tumultus.]

1. Disorderly; promiscuous; confused; as a tumultuary conflict.

2. Restless; agitated; unquiet.

Men who live without religion, live always in a tumultuary and restless state.

Tumultuate

TUMULT'UATE, verb intransitive [Latin tumultuo.] To make a tumult. [Not used.]

Tumultuation

TUMULTUA'TION, noun Commotion; irregular or disorderly movement; as the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid.

Tumultuous

TUMULT'UOUS, adjective Conducted with tumult; disorderly; as a tumultuous conflict; a tumultuous retreat.

1. Greatly agitated; irregular; noisy; confused; as a tumultuous assembly or meeting.

2. Agitated; disturbed; as a tumultuous breast.

3. Turbulent; violent; as a tumultuous speech.

4. Full of tumult and disorder; as a tumultuous state or city.

Tumultuously

TUMULT'UOUSLY, adverb In a disorderly manner; by a disorderly multitude.

Tumultuousness

TUMULT'UOUSNESS, noun The state of being tumultuous; disorder; commotion.

Tun

TUN, noun [Latin teneo, to hold; Gr. to stretch.]

1. In a general sense, a large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops.

2. A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, oil, etc.

3. A quantity of wine, consisting of two pipes or four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.

4. In commerce, the weight of twenty hundreds gross, each hundred consisting of 112 lb = 2240 lb. But by a law of Connecticut, passed June 1827, gross weight is abolished, and a tun is the weight of 2000 lb. It is also a practice in noun York to sell by 2000 lb. to the tun

5. A certain weight by which the burden of a ship is estimated; as a ship of three hundred tuns, that is, a ship that will carry three hundred times two thousand weight. Forty two cubic feet are allowed to a tun

6. A certain quantity of timber, consisting of forty solid feet if round, or fifty four feet if square.

7. Proverbially, a large quantity.

8. In burlesque, a drunkard.

9. At the end of names, tun ton, or don, signifies town, village, or hill.

TUN, verb transitive To put into casks.

Tun-Bellied

TUN'-BELLIED, adjective [tun and belly.] Having a large protuberant belly.

TUN'-DISH, noun [tun and dish.] A tunnel.

Tunable

TU'NABLE, adjective [from tune.] Harmonious; musical.

And tunable as sylvan pipe or song.

1. That may be put in tune.

Tunableness

TU'NABLENESS, noun Harmony; melodiousness.

Tunably

TU'NABLY, adverb Harmoniously; musically.

Tune

TUNE, noun [Latin tonus.]

1. A series of musical notes in some particular measure, and consisting of a single series, for one voice or instrument, the effect of which is melody; or a union of two or more series or parts to be sung or played in concert, the effect of which is harmony. Thus we say, a merry tune a lively tune a grave tune a psalm tune a martial tune

2. Sound; note.

3. Harmony; order; concert of parts.

A continual parliament I thought would but keep the commonweal in tune

4. The state of giving the proper sounds; as when we say, a harpsichord is in tune; that is, when the several chords are of that tension, that each gives its proper sound, and the sounds of all are at due intervals, both of tones and semitones.

5. Proper state for use or application; right disposition; fit temper or humor. The mind is not in tune for mirth.

A child will learn three times as fast when he is in tune as he will when he is dragged to this task.

TUNE, verb transitive To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; as, to tune a forte-piano; to tune a violin.

TUNE your harps.

1. To sing with melody or harmony.

Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow

Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.

So we say of birds, they tune their notes or lays.

2. To put into a state proper for any purpose, or adapted to produce a particular effect. [Little used.]

TUNE, verb intransitive To form one sound to another.

While tuning to the waters'fall

The small birds sang to her.

1. To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice.

Tuned

TU'NED, participle passive Uttered melodiously or harmoniously; put in order to produce the proper sounds.

Tuneful

TU'NEFUL, adjective Harmonious; melodious; musical; as tuneful notes; tuneful birds.

Tuneless

TU'NELESS, adjective Unmusical; unharmonious.

1. Not employed in making music; as a tuneless harp.

Tuner

TU'NER, noun One who tunes.

1. One whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.

TUNG, noun A name given by the Indians to a small insect, called by the Spaniards pique, which inserts its eggs within the human skin; an insect very troublesome in the East and West Indies.

TUNG, noun In man, the instrument of taste, and the chief instrument of speech. [See Tongue.]

Tung

TUNG, noun [Ant. Latin tingua; digitus and dug. Our common orthography is incorrect; the true spelling is tung ]

1. In man, the instrument of taste, and the chief instrument of speech; and in other animals, the instrument of taste. It is also an instrument of deglutition. In some animals, the tongue is used for drawing the food into the mouth, as in animals of the bovine genus, etc. Other animals lap their drink, as dogs.

The tongue is covered with membranes, and the outer one is full of papillae of a pyramidical figure, under which lies a thin, soft, reticular coat perforated with innumerable holes, and always lined with a thick and white or yellowish mucus.

2. Speech; discourse; sometimes, fluency of speech.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

3. The power of articulate utterance; speech.

Parrots imitating human tongue.

4. Speech, as well or ill used; mode of speaking.

Keep a good tongue in thy head.

The tongue of the wise is health. Proverbs 12:1.

5. A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation. The English tongue, within two hundred years, will probably be spoken by two or three hundred millions of people in North America.

6. Speech; words or declarations only; opposed to thoughts or actions.

Let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:1.

7. A nation, as distinguished by their language.

I will gather all nations and tongues. Isaiah 66:1.

8. A point; a projection; as the tongue of a buckle or of a balance.

9. A point or long narrow strip of land, projecting from the main into a sea or a lake.

10. The taper part of any thing; in the rigging of a ship, a short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc. to the size of the mast-head.

To hold the tongue, to be silent.

TONGUE

TUNG, verb transitive To chide; to scold.

How might she tongue me.

TONGUE

TUNG, verb intransitive To talk; to prate.

Tunged

TUNG'ED, adjective Having a tongue.

Tongued like the night-crow.

Tungless

TUNG'LESS, adjective Having no tongue.

1. Speechless; as a tongueless block.

2. Unnamed; not spoken of.

One good deed dying tongueless. [Not used.]

Tungstate

TUNG'STATE, noun A salt formed of tungstenic acid and a base.

Tungsten

TUNG'STEN, noun In mineralogy, a mineral of a yellowish or grayish white color, of a lamellar structure, and infusible by the blowpipe. It occurs massive or crystallized, usually in octahedral crystals. This is an ore. The same name is given to the metal obtained from this ore. This metal is procured in small panes as fine as sand, of a strong metallic luster, an iron gray color, and slightly agglutinated. It is one of the hardest of the metals, and very brittle.

Tungstenic

TUNGSTEN'IC, adjective Pertaining to or procured from tungsten.

Tunic

TU'NIC, noun [Latin tunica. See Town and Tun.]

1. A kind of waistcoat or under garment worn by men in ancient Rome and the east. In the later ages of the republic, the tunic was a long garment with sleeves.

2. Among the religious, a woolen shirt or under garment.

3. In anatomy, a membrane that covers or composes some part or organ; as the tunics or coats of the eye; the tunics of the stomach, or the membranous and muscular layers which compose it.

4. A natural covering; an integument; as the tunic of a seed.

The tunic of the seed, is the arillus, a covering attached to the base only of the seed, near the hilum or scar, and enveloping the rest of the seed more or less completely and closely.

Tunicated

TU'NICATED, adjective In botany, covered with a tunic or membranes; coated; as a stem.

A tunicated bulb, is one composed of numerous concentric coats, as an onion.

Tunicle

TU'NICLE, noun [from tunic.] A natural covering; an integument.

Tuning

TU'NING, participle present tense Uttering harmoniously or melodiously; putting in due order for making the proper sounds.

Tuning-Fork

TU'NING-FORK, noun A steel instrument consisting of two prongs and a handle; used for tuning instruments.

Tuning-Hammer

TU'NING-HAMMER, noun An instrument for tuning instruments of music.

Tunker

TUNK'ER, noun The tunkers are a religious sect in Pennsylvania, of German origin, resembling English baptists.

Tunnage

TUN'NAGE, adjective [from tun.] The amount of tuns that a ship will carry; the content or burthen of a ship. A ship pays duty according to her tunnage

1. The duty charged on ships according to their burthen, or the number of tuns at which they are rated.

2. A duty laid on liquors according to their measure.

3. A duty paid to mariners by merchants for unloading their ships, after a rate by the tun.

4. The whole amount of shipping, estimated by the tuns.

Tunnel

TUN'NEL, noun A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, and a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor into casks.

1. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; called generally a funnel.

2. A large subterraneous arch through a hill for a canal and the passage of boats. Smaller drains or culverts are also called tunnels.

TUN'NEL, verb transitive To form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.

1. To catch in a net called a tunnel-net.

2. To form with net-work.

Tunnel-Kiln

TUN'NEL-KILN, noun A lime-kiln in which coal is burnt, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used.

Tunnel-Net

TUN'NEL-NET, noun A net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other.

Tunnel-Pit

TUN'NEL-PIT, noun A shaft sunk from the top of the ground to the level of an intended tunnel, for drawing up the earth and stones.

Tunning

TUN'NING, participle present tense Putting into casks.

Tunny

TUN'NY, noun [Latin thynnus.] A fish of the genus Scomber, the Spanish mackerel. The largest weigh upwards of four hundred pounds.

Tup

TUP, noun A ram. [Local.]

TUP, verb transitive To butt, as a ram. [Local.]

1. To cover, as a ram. [Local.]

Tupelo

TU'PELO, noun A tree of the genus Nyssa.

TUP'-MAN, noun A man who deals in tups. [Local.]

Turban

TUR'BAN, noun A head dress worn by the orientals, consisting of a cap, and a sash of fine linen or taffeta artfully wound round it in plaits. The cap is red or green, roundish on the top, and quilted with cotton. The sash of the Turks is white linen; that of the Persians is red woolen.

1. In conchology, the whole set of whirls of a shell.

Turban-Shell

TUR'BAN-SHELL, noun In natural history, a genus of shells, or rather of sea urchins, (echinodermata, ) of a hemispheric or spheroidal shape, the Cidaris of Klein.

Turban-Top

TUR'BAN-TOP, noun A plant of the genus Helvella; a kind of fungus or mushroom.

Turbaned

TUR'BANED, adjective Wearing a turban; as a turbaned Turk.

Turbary

TUR'BARY, noun [from turf; Latinized, turbaria.]

1. In law, a right of digging turf on another man's land. Common of turbary is the liberty which a tenant enjoys of digging turf on the lord's waste.

2. The place where turf is dug.

Turbid

TUR'BID, adjective [Latin turbidus, from turbo, to disturb, that is, to stir, to turn.] Properly, having the lees disturbed; but in a more general sense, muddy; foul with extraneous matter; thick; not clear; used of liquids of any kind; as turbid water; turbid wine. Streams running on clay generally appear to be turbid This is often the case with the river Seine.

Turbidly

TUR'BIDLY, adverb Proudly; haughtily; a Latinism. [Not in use.]

Turbidness

TUR'BIDNESS, noun Muddiness; foulness.

Turbillion

TURBIL'LION, noun A whirl; a vortex.

Turbinate

TUR'BINATE

TUR'BINATED, adjective [Latin turbinatus, formed like atop, form turbo, turben, atop.]

1. In conchology, spiral, or wreathed conically from a larger base to a kind of apex; as turbinated shells.

2. In botany, shaped like a top or cone inverted; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as a turbinated germ, nectary or pericarp.

3. Whirling. [Little used.]

Turbinated

TUR'BINATED, a. [L. turbinatus, formed like atop, form turbo, turben, atop.] 1. In conchology, spiral, or wreathed conically from a larger base to a kind of apex; as turbinated shells.2. In botany, shaped like a top or cone inverted; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as a turbinated germ, nectary or pericarp.3. Whirling. [Little used.]

Turbination

TURBINA'TION, noun The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.

Turbinite

TUR'BINITE

TUR'BIT, noun A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak; called by the Dutch kort-bek, short beak.

1. The turbot.

Turbit

TUR'BIT, n. A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak; called by the Dutch kort-bek, short beak. 1. The turbot.

Turbite

TUR'BITE, noun A petrified shell of the turbo kind.

Turbith

TUR'BITH

TUR'BOT, noun A fish of the genus Pleuronectes, [fishes which swim on the side.] It grows to the weight of twenty or thirty pounds, and is much esteemed by epicures.

Turbot

TUR'BOT, n. A fish of the genus Pleuronectes, [fishes which swim on the side.] It grows to the weight of twenty or thirty pounds, and is much esteemed by epicures.

Turbulence

TUR'BULENCE

TUR'BULENCY, noun [See Turbulent.] A disturbed state; tumult; confusion; as the turbulence of the times; turbulence in political affairs.

1. Disorder or tumult of the passions; as turbulence of mind.

2. Agitation; tumultuousness; as turbulence of blood.

3. Disposition to resist authority; insubordination; as the turbulence of subjects.

Turbulency

TUR'BULENCY, n. [See Turbulent.] A disturbed state; tumult; confusion; as the turbulence of the times; turbulence in political affairs. 1. Disorder or tumult of the passions; as turbulence of mind.2. Agitation; tumultuousness; as turbulence of blood.3. Disposition to resist authority; insubordination; as the turbulence of subjects.

Turbulent

TUR'BULENT, adjective [Latin turbulentus, from turbo, to disturb.]

1. Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; being in violent commotion; as the turbulent ocean.

Calm region once,

And full of peace, now tost and turbulent

The turbulent mirth of wine.

2. Restless; unquiet; refractory; disposed to insubordination and disorder; as turbulent spirits.

3. Producing commotion.

Whose heads that turbulent liquor fills with fumes.

Turbulently

TUR'BULENTLY, adverb Tumultuously; with violent agitation; with refractoriness.

Turcism

TUR'CISM, noun The religion of the Turks.

Turf

TURF, noun

1. That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold, which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat. This is otherwise called sward and sod.

2. Peat; a peculiar kind of blackish, fibrous, vegetable, earthy substance, used as fuel. [Dryden and Addison wrote turfs, in the plural. But when turf or peat is cut into small pieces, the practice now is to call them turves.]

3. Race-ground; or horse-racing.

The honors of the turf are all our own.

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

TURF'-COVERED, adjective Covered with turf

TURF'-DRAIN, noun A drain filled with turf or peat.

Turfed

TURF'ED, participle passive Covered with turf or green sod.

TURF'-HEDGE, noun A hedge or fence formed with turf and plants of different kinds.

TURF'-HOUSE, noun A house or shed formed of turf, common in the northern parts of Europe.

Turfiness

TURF'INESS, noun [from turfy.] The state of abounding with turf, or of having the consistence or qualities of turf.

Turfing

TURF'ING, participle present tense Covering with turf.

TURF'ING, noun The operation of laying down turf, or covering with turf.

Turfing-Iron

TURF'ING-IRON, noun An implement for paring off turf.

Turfing-Spade

TURF'ING-SPADE, noun An instrument for under-cutting turf, when marked out by the plow.

TURF'-MOSS, noun A tract of turfy, mossy, or boggy land.

TURF'-SPADE, noun A spade for cutting and digging turf, longer and narrower than the common spade.

Turfy

TURF'Y, adjective Abounding with turf.

1. Having the qualities of turf.

Turgent

TUR'GENT, adjective [Latin turgens, form turgeo, to swell.] Swelling; tumid; rising into a tumor or puffy state; as when the humors are turgent

Turgescence

TURGES'CENCE

TURGES'CENCY, noun [Latin turgescens.] The act of swelling.

1. The state of being swelled.

2. Empty pompousness; inflation; bombast.

Turgescency

TURGES'CENCY, n. [L. turgescens.] The act of swelling. 1. The state of being swelled.2. Empty pompousness; inflation; bombast.

Turgid

TUR'GID, adjective [Latin turgidus, from turgeo, to swell.]

1. Swelled; bloated; distended beyond its natural state by some internal agent or expansive force.

A bladder held by the fire grew turgid

More generally, the word is applied to an enlarged part of the body; as a turgid limb.

2. Tumid; pompous; inflated; bombastic; as a turgid style; a turgid manner of talking.

Turgidity

TURGID'ITY, noun State of being swelled; tumidness.

Turgidly

TUR'GIDLY, adverb With swelling or empty pomp.

Turgidness

TUR'GIDNESS, noun A swelling or swelled state of a thing; distention beyond its natural state by some internal force or agent, as in a limb.

1. Pompousness; inflated manner of writing or speaking; bombast; as the turgidness of language or style.

Turioniferous

TURIONIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin turio, a shoot, and fero, to bear.]

Producing shoots.

Turkey

TUR'KEY

TUR'KEY-STONE, noun Another name of the oil-stone, from turkey

Turkey-Stone

TUR'KEY-STONE, n. Another name of the oil-stone, from Turkey.

Turkois

TURK'OIS, noun A mineral, called also calaite, brought from the east; of a beautiful light green color, occurring in thin layers, or in rounded masses, or in reniform masses, with a botryoidal surface. It is susceptible of a high polish, and is used in jewelry. It is usually written in the French manner.

Turks-Cap

TURK'S-CAP, noun A plant of the genus Lilium.

Turks-Head

TURK'S-HEAD, noun A plant of the genus Cactus.

Turks-Turban

TURK'S-TURBAN, noun A plant of the genus Ranunculus.

Turky

TUR'KY, noun [As this fowl was not brought from Turkey, it would be more correct to write the name turky ] A large fowl, the Meleagris gallopavo, a distinct genus. It is a native of America, and its flesh furnishes most delicious food. Wild turkies abound in the forests of America, and domestic turkies are bred in other countries, as well as in America.

Turm

TURM, noun [Latin turma.] A troop. [Not English.]

TUR'MALIN, noun An electric stone. [See Tourmalin.]

Turmalin

TUR'MALIN, noun [probably a corruption of tournamal, a name given to this stone in Ceylon.] In mineralogy, a silicious stone, sometimes used as a gem by jewelers, remarkable for exhibiting electricity by heat or friction. It occurs in long prisms deeply striated. Its fracture is conchoidal, and its internal luster vitreous.

Turmalin is considered as a variety of shorl.

Turmeric

TUR'MERIC, noun Indian saffron; a medicinal root brought from the East Indies, the root of the Curcuma longa. It is externally grayish, but internally of a deep lively yellow or saffron color. It has a slight aromatic smell, and a bitterish, slightly acrid taste. It is used for dyeing, and in some cases, as a medicine. This name is sometimes given to the blood-root of America.

Turmoil

TURMOIL', noun [I know not the origin of this word; but it is probably from the root of the Latin turba, turbo, turma, or of turn.]

Disturbance, tumult; harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult.

There I'll rest, as after much turmoil

A blessed soul doth in Elysium.

TURMOIL', verb transitive To harass with commotion.

It is her fatal misfortune--to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.

1. To disquiet; to weary.

TURMOIL', verb intransitive To be disquieted; to be in commotion.

Turn

TURN, verb transitive [Latin turnus; torniare, to turn; tornare, to return; torneare, tornire, to turn to fence round, to tilt; torniamento, tournament.]

1. To cause to move in a circular course; as, to turn a wheel; to turn a spindle; to turn the body.

2. To change or shift sides; to put the upper side downwards, or one side in the place of the other. It is said a hen turns her eggs often when sitting.

3. To alter, as a position.

Expert

When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway of battle.

4. To cause to preponderate; to change the state of a balance; as, to turn the scale.

5. To bring the inside out; as, to turn a coat.

6. To alter, as the posture of the body, or direction of the look.

The monarch turns him to his royal guest.

7. To form on a lathe; to make round.

8. To form; to shape; used in the participle; as a body finely turned.

Him limbs how turn'd.

9. To change; to transform; as, to turn evil to good; to turn goods into money.

Impatience turns an ague into a fever.

I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. 2 Samuel 15:31.

10. To metamorphose; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect.

11. To alter or change, as color; as, to turn green to blue.

12. To change or alter in any manner; to vary.

13. To translate; as, to turn Greek into English.

--Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown.

14. To change, as the manner of writing; as, to turn prose into verse.

15. To change, as from one opinion or party to another; as, to turn one from a tory to whig; to turn Mohammedan or a pagan to a Christian.

16. To change in regard to inclination or temper.

TURN thee to me, and have mercy upon me. Psalms 25:16.

17. To change or alter from one purpose or effect to another.

God will make these evils the occasion of greater good, by turning them to our advantage.

18. To transfer.

Therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom to David. 1 Chronicles 10:14.

19. To cause to nauseate or lothe; as, to turn the stomach.

20. To make giddy.

Eastern priests in giddy circles run,

And turn their heads to imitate the sun.

21. To infatuate; to make mad, wild or enthusiastic; as, to turn the brain.

22. To change direction to or from any point; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn the eyes from a disgusting spectacle.

23. To direct by a change to a certain purpose or object; to direct, as the inclination, thoughts or mind. I have turned my mind to the subject.

My thoughts are turn'd on peace.

24. To revolve; to agitate in the mind.

TURN those ideas about in your mind.

25. To bend from a perpendicular direction; as, to turn the edge of an instrument.

26. To move from a direct course or strait line; to cause to deviate; as, to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course.

27. To apply by a change of use.

When the passage is open, land will be turned most to cattle.

28. To reverse.

The Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee. Deuteronomy 30:3.

29. To keep passing and changing in the course of trade; as, to turn money or stock two or three times in the year.

30. To adapt the mind; chiefly in the participle.

He was perfectly well turned for trade.

31. To make acid; to sour; as, to turn cider or wine; to turn milk.

32. To persuade to renounce an opinion; to dissuade from a purpose, or cause to change sides. You cannot turn a firm man.

To turn aside, to avert.

To turn away, to dismiss from service; to discard; as, to turn away a servant.

1. To avert; as, to turn away wrath or evil.

To turn back, to return; as, to turn back goods to the seller. [Little used.]

To turn down, to fold or double down.

To turn in, to fold or double; as, to turn in the edge of cloth.

To turn off, to dismiss contemptuously; as, to turn off a sycophant or parasite.

1. To give over; to resign. We are not so wholly turned off from that reversion.

2. To divert; to deflect; as, to turn off the thoughts from serious subjects.

To be turned of, to be advanced beyond; as, to be turned of sixty six.

To turn out, to drive out; to expel; as, to turn a family out of doors, or out of the house.

1. To put to pasture; as cattle or horses.

To turn over, to change sides; to roll over.

1. To transfer; as, to turn over a business to another hand.

2. To open and examine one leaf after another; as, to turn over a concordance.

3. To overset.

TURN to, to have recourse to.

Helvetius' tables may be turned to on all occasions.

To turn upon, to retort; to throw back; as, to turn the arguments of an opponent upon himself.

To turn the back, to flee; to retreat. Exodus 23:27.

To turn the back upon, to quit with contempt; to forsake.

To turn the die or dice, to change fortune.

TURN, verb intransitive To move round; to have a circular motion; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.

1. To be directed.

The understanding turns inwards on itself, and reflects on its own operations.

2. To show regard by directing the look towards any thing.

TURN mighty monarch, turn this way;

Do not refuse to hear.

3. To move the body round. He turned to me with a smile.

4. To move; to change posture. Let your body be at rest; do not turn in the least.

5. To deviate; as, to turn from the road or course.

6. To alter; to be changed or transformed; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another.

7. To become by change; as, the fur of certain animals turns in winter.

Cygnets from gray turn white.

8. To change sides. A man in a fever turns often.

9. To change opinions or parties; as, to turn Christian or Mohammedan.

10. To change the mind or conduct.

TURN from thy fierce wrath. Exodus 32:12.

11. To change to acid; as, mild turns suddenly during a thunder storm.

12. To be brought eventually; to result or terminate in. This trade has not turned to much account or advantage. The application of steam turns to good account, both on land and water.

13. To depend on for decision. The question turns on a single fact or point.

14. To become giddy.

I'll look no more,

Lest my brain turn

15. To change a course of life; to repent.

TURN ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why will ye die? Ezekiel 33:9.

16. To change the course or direction; as, the tide turns.

To turn about, to move the face to another quarter.

To turn away, to deviate.

1. To depart from; to forsake.turn in, to bend inwards.

1. To enter for lodgings or entertainment. Genesis 19:2.

2. To go to bed.

To turn off, to be diverted; to deviate from a course. The road turns off to the left.

To turn on or upon, to reply or retort.

1. To depend on.

To turn out, to move from its place, as a bone.

1. To bend outwards; to project.

2. To rise from bed; also, to come abroad.

To turn over, to turn from side to side; to roll; to tumble.

1. To change sides or parties.

To turn to, to be directed; as, the needle turns to the magnetic pole.

To turn under, to bend or be folded downwards.

To turn up, to bend or be doubled upwards.

TURN, noun The act of turning; movement or motion in a circular direction, whether horizontally, vertically or otherwise; a revolution; as the turn of a wheel.

1. A winding; a meandering course; a bend or bending; as the turn of river.

2. A walk to and from.

I will take a turn in your garden.

3. Change; alteration; vicissitude; as the turns and varieties of passions.

Too well the turns of mortal chance I know.

4. Successive course.

Nobleness and bounty--which virtues had their turns in the king's nature.

5. Manner of proceeding; change of direction. This affair may take a different turn from that which we expect.

6. Chance; hap; opportunity.

Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

7. Occasion; incidental opportunity.

An old dog falling from his speed, was loaded at every turn with blows and reproaches.

8. Time at which, by successive vicissitudes, any thing is to be had or done. They take each other's turn

His turn will come to laugh at you again.

9. Action of kindness or malice.

Thanks are half lost when good turns are delay'd.

Some malicious natures place their delight in doing ill turns.

10. Reigning inclination or course. Religion is not to be adapted to the turn and fashion of the age.

11. A step off the ladder at the gallows.

12. Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn

13. Form; cast; shape; manner; in a literal or figurative sense; as the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.

The turn of his thoughts and expression is unharmonious.

Female virtues are of a domestic turn

The Roman poets, in their description of a beautiful man, often mention the turn of his neck and arms.

14. Manner of arranging words in a sentence.

15. Change; new position of things. Some evil happens at every turn of affairs.

16. Change of direction; as the turn of the tide from flood to ebb.

17. One round of a rope or cord.

18. In mining, a pit sunk in some part of a drift.

19. turn or tourn, in law. The sheriff's turn is a court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county. [England.]

By turns, one after another; alternately.

They assist each other by turns.

1. At intervals.

They feel by turns the bitter change.

To take turns, to take each other's places alternately.

TURN'-BENCH, noun [turn and bench.] A kind of iron lathe.

Turncoat

TURN'COAT, noun [turn and coat.] One who forsakes his party or principles.

Turned

TURN'ED, participle passive Moved in a circle; changed.

Turnep

TUR'NEP, noun [Latin napus, a turnep ] A bulbous root or plant of the genus Brassica, of great value for food; an esculent root of several varieties.

Turner

TURN'ER, noun One whose occupation is to form things with a lathe; one who turns.

Turnerite

TURN'ERITE, noun A rare mineral occurring in small crystals of a yellowish brown color, externally brilliant and translucent.

Turnery

TURN'ERY, noun The art of forming into a cylindrical shape by the lathe.

1. Things made by a turner or in the lathe.

Turning

TURN'ING, participle present tense Moving in a circle; changing; winding.

TURN'ING, noun A winding; a bending course; flexure; meander.

1. Deviation from the way or proper course.

Turningness

TURN'INGNESS, noun Quality of turning; tergivesation. [Not in use.]

Turnpike

TURN'PIKE, noun [turn and pike.] Strictly, a frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles, and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of breasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms.

1. A gate set across a road to stop travelers and carriages till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair.

2. A turnpike road.

3. In military affairs, a beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage.

TURN'PIKE, verb transitive To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; to throw the path of a road into a rounded form.

Turnpike-Road

TURN'PIKE-ROAD, noun A road on which turnpikes or toll-gates are established by law, and which are made and kept in repair by the toll collected from travelers or passengers who use the road.

Turnserving

TURN'SERVING, noun [turn and serve.] The act or practice of serving one's turn or promoting private interest.

TURN'-SICK, adjective [turn and sick.] Giddy.

Turnsole

TURN'SOLE, noun [turn and Latin sol, the sun.] A plant of the genus Heliotropium, so named because its flower is supposed to turn towards the sun.

Turnspit

TURN'SPIT, noun [turn and spit.] A person who turns a spit.

His lordship is his majesty's turnspit

1. A variety of the dog, so called from turning the spit.

Turnstile

TURN'STILE, noun [turn and stile.] A turnpike in a foot-path.

Turnstone

TURN'STONE, noun [turn and stone.] A bird, called the sea-dotterel, the Tringa morinella, a little larger than an English blackbird. This bird takes its name from its practice of turning up small stones in search of insects.

Turpentine

TUR'PENTINE, adjective [Latin terebinthina.] A transparent resinous substance, flowing naturally or by incision from several species of trees, as from the pine, larch, fir, etc. Common turpentine is of about the consistence of honey; but there are several varieties.

Turpentine-Tree

TUR'PENTINE-TREE, noun A tree of the genus Pistacia, which produces not only its proper fruit, but a kind of horn which grows on the surface of its leaves. This is found to be an excrescence, the effect of the puncture of an insect, and is produced in the same manner as the galls of other plants.

Turpeth

TUR'PETH, noun A root brought from the East Indies, particularly from Cambaya, Surat and Goa, or from Ceylon. It is the cortical part of the root of a species of Convolvulus. That sold in the shops is a longish root, of the thickness of the finger, resinous, heavy, and of a brownish hue without, but whitish within. It is cathartic.

Turbith or turpeth mineral, is the yellow precipitate of mercury, called sometimes yellow subsulphate of mercury, or subdeutosulphate.

Turpitude

TURP'ITUDE, noun [Latin turpitudo, from turpis, foul, base.]

1. Inherent baseness or vileness of principle in the human heart; extreme depravity.

2. Baseness or vileness of words or actions; shameful wickedness.

Turrel

TUR'REL, noun A tool used by coopers.

Turret

TUR'RET, noun [Latin turris.] A little tower; a small eminence or spire attached to a building and rising above it.

And lift her turrets nearer to the sky.

1. In the art of war, movable turrets, used formerly by the Romans, were buildings of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories, and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, moved on wheels. They were employed in approaches to a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting-bridges and other necessaries.

Turreted

TUR'RETED, adjective Formed like a tower; as a turreted lamp.

1. Furnished with turrets.

Turrilite

TUR'RILITE, noun The fossil remains of a spiral multilocular shell.

Turtle

TUR'TLE, noun [Latin turtur.]

1. A fowl of the genus Columba; called also the turtle dove, and turtle pigeon. It is a wild species, frequenting the thickest parts of the woods, and its note is plaintive and tender.

2. The name sometimes given to the common tortoise.

3. The name given to the large sea-tortoise.

Turtle-Dove

TUR'TLE-DOVE, noun A species of the genus Columba. [See Turtle.]

Turtle-Shell

TUR'TLE-SHELL, noun [turtle and shell.] A shell, a beautiful species of Murex; also, tortoise-shell.

Tuscan

TUS'CAN, adjective Pertaining to Tuscany in Italy; an epithet given to one of the orders of columns, the most ancient and simple.

TUS'CAN, noun An order of columns.

Tush

TUSH, an exclamation, indicating check, rebuke or contempt. tush tush never tell me such a story as that.

TUSH, noun A tooth.

Tusk

TUSK, noun The long pointed tooth of certain rapacious, carnivorous or fighting animals; as the tusks of the boar.

TUSK, verb intransitive To gnash the teeth, as a boar.

Tusked

TUSK'ED

TUSK'Y, adjective Furnished with tusks; as the tusky boar.

Tusky

TUSK'Y, a. Furnished with tusks; as the tusky boar.

Tussle

TUS'SLE, noun A struggle; a conflict. [Vulgar.] [See Touse.]

Tussoc

TUS'SOC, noun A tuft of grass or twigs.

Tussuc

TUS'SUC

TUT, an exclamation, used for checking or rebuking.

TUT, noun An imperial ensign of a golden globe with a cross on it.

Tut bargain, among miners, a bargain by the lump. [Qu. Latin totus.]

Tut

TUT, an exclamation, used for checking or rebuking.

TUT, n. An imperial ensign of a golden globe with a cross on it.

Tut bargain, among miners, a bargain by the lump. [Qu.L. totus.]

Tutelage

TU'TELAGE, noun [from Latin tutela, protection, from tueor, to defend.]

1. Guardianship; protection; applied to the person protecting; as, the king's right of seignory and tutelage

2. State of being under a guardian.

Tutelar

TU'TELAR

TU'TELARY, adjective [Latin tutelaris, supra.] Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as tutelary genii; tutelary goddesses.

Tutelary

TU'TELARY, a. [L. tutelaris, supra.] Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as tutelary genii; tutelary goddesses.

Tutenag

TU'TENAG, noun The Chinese name of zink. Sometimes the word is used to denote a metallic compound brought from China, called Chinese copper or white copper, consisting of copper, zink and iron.