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Gyroidal :: Gyroidal (a.) Turning the plane of polarization circularly or spirally to the right or left.

Refluent :: Refluent (a.) Flowing back; returning; ebbing.

Matter-of-fact :: Matter-of-fact (a.) Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.

Inadvertent :: Inadvertent (a.) Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive.

Revenge :: Revenge (n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.

Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species (J. torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck..

Peristrephic :: Peristrephic (a.) Turning around; rotatory; revolving; as, a peristrephic painting (of a panorama)..

Intent :: Intent (n.) The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim..

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

Spoked :: Spoke (n.) A contrivance for fastening the wheel of a vehicle, to prevent it from turning in going down a hill..

Turning :: Turning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tur.

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..

Dextrorotatory :: Dextrorotatory (a.) Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc. Cf. Levorotatory..

Rotary :: Rotary (a.) Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion..

Multiversant :: Multiversant (a.) Turning into many shapes; assuming many forms; protean.

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

Wabble :: Wabble (v. i.) To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles..

Reflux :: Reflux (a.) Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action..

Reel :: Reel (n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel..

Turning :: Turning (n.) The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander..

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