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Doubling :: Doubling (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice..

Vertex :: Vertex (n.) A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.

Anfractuous :: Anfractuous (a.) Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack..

Retaliation :: Retaliation (n.) The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth..

Crapaudine :: Crapaudine (n.) Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a door.

Turnover :: Turnover (n.) A semicircular pie or tart made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials..

Overturning :: Overturning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overtur.

Pronation :: Pronation (n.) The act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward.

Roll :: Roll (n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel..

Rolling :: Rolling (a.) Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball..

Versor :: Versor (n.) The turning factor of a quaternion.

Sneer :: Sneer (v. i.) To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression..

Dextro- :: Dextro- () having the property of turning the plane of polarized light to the right; as, dextrotartaric acid..

Gimlet :: Gimlet (v. t.) To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet..

Turning :: Turning (n.) The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned..

Whisket :: Whisket (n.) A small lathe for turning wooden pins.

Church :: Church (v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women..

Conversion :: Conversion (n.) The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change..

Flexion :: Flexion (n.) The act of flexing or bending; a turning.

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