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Turner :: Turner (n.) A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge.

Quaquaversal :: Quaquaversal (a.) Turning or dipping in any or every direction.

Redlegs :: Redlegs (n.) The turnstone.

Rebate :: Rebate (v. t.) To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise..

Marl :: Marl (v. t.) To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding..

Retaliate :: Retaliate (v. t.) To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense..

Weatherbit :: Weatherbit (v. t.) To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass..

Hemmer :: Hemmer (n.) An attachment to a sewing machine, for turning under the edge of a piece of fabric, preparatory to stitching it down..

Perversed :: Perversed (a.) Turned aside.

Swifter :: Swifter (n.) A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it.

Saturnian :: Saturnian (a.) Of or pertaining to Saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the golden age..

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free..

Answer :: Answer (v. i.) To be or act in return.

Reviving :: Reviving (a. & n.) Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating.

Swivel :: Swivel (a.) A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun..

Yellows :: Yellows (n.) A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus..

Acetify :: Acetify (v. i.) To turn acid.

Passegarde :: Passegarde (n.) A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.

Radius Vector :: Radius vector () A straight line (or the length of such line) connecting any point, as of a curve, with a fixed point, or pole, round which the straight line turns, and to which it serves to refer the successive points of a curve, in a system of polar coordinates. See Coordinate, n..

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