Definition of turn

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Turn (v. i.) To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan..

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Strode :: Strockle (n.) A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc..
Predict :: Predict (v. t.) To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet..
Turnstone :: Turnstone (n.) 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..
Parry :: Parry (v. i.) To ward off, evade, or turn aside something, as a blow, argument, etc..
Rotatory :: Rotatory (a.) Turning as on an axis; rotary.
Controversal :: Controversal (a.) Turning or looking opposite ways.
Jugular :: "Jugular (a.) One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein..
Turn :: Turn (v. i.) To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue.
Weather-bit :: Weather-bit (n.) A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits..
Relapsing :: Relapsing (a.) Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.
Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice..
Turnstile :: Turnstile (n.) A similar arrangement for registering the number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or the like..
Return :: Return (n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
Rotate :: Rotate (v. i.) To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle..
Turn :: Turn (v. i.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted..
Abjuration :: Abjuration (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return..
Logrolling :: Logrolling (n.) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.
Sea Colander :: Sea colander () A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes..
Averse :: Averse (a.) Turned away or backward.
Vein :: Vein (n.) Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein..
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