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

Meditation :: Meditation (n.) The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing.

Obversion :: Obversion (n.) The act of turning toward or downward.

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

Verticity :: Verticity (n.) The quality or power of turning; revolution; rotation.

Centrebit :: Centrebit (n.) An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See Bit, n., 3..

Turning :: Turning (n.) A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned.

Anatiferous :: Anatiferous (a.) Producing ducks; -- applied to Anatifae, under the absurd notion of their turning into ducks or geese. See Barnacle..

Turningness :: Turningness (n.) The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation.

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

Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend..

Subversionary :: Subversion (n.) The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution..

Tailpin :: Tailpin (n.) The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.

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..

Gyration :: Gyration (n.) The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution..

Lock :: Lock (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him..

Latin :: Latin (n.) An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin..

Circumrotatory :: Circumrotatory (a.) turning, rolling, or whirling round..

Gyroma :: Gyroma (n.) A turning round.

Serpentine :: Serpentine (a.) Resembling a serpent; having the shape or qualities of a serpent; subtle; winding or turning one way and the other, like a moving serpent; anfractuous; meandering; sinuous; zigzag; as, serpentine braid..

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