Definition of turn

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Turn (n.) Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn..

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Lotus :: Lotus (n.) The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it..
Frequency :: Frequency (n.) The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles..
Entropium :: Entropium (n.) The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.
Slue :: Slue (v. i.) To turn about; to turn from the course; to slip or slide and turn from an expected or desired course; -- often followed by round.
Counterturn :: Counterturn (n.) The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties..
Turn :: Turn (v. i.) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc..
Flexuous :: Flexuous (a.) Having turns, windings, or flexures..
Introvert :: Introvert (v. t.) To turn or bend inward.
Luff :: Luff (v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.
Simous :: Simous (a.) Having a very flat or snub nose, with the end turned up..
Disorient :: Disorient (v. t.) To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.
Smokejack :: Smokejack (n.) A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
Whiten :: Whiten (v. i.) To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms..
Mousing :: Mousing (n.) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out..
Homing :: Homing (a.) Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.
Round :: Round (adv.) From one side or party to another; as to come or turn round, -- that is, to change sides or opinions..
Feed :: Feed (n.) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work..
Guilloched :: Guilloched (a.) Waved or engine-turned.
Versatile :: Versatile (a.) Liable to be turned in opinion; changeable; variable; unsteady; inconstant; as versatile disposition.
Returner :: Returner (n.) One who returns.
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