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Turn :: Turn (n.) Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide..

Monotomous :: Monotomous (a.) Having a distinct cleavage in a single direction only.

Anteversion :: Anteversion (n.) A displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual..

Broadcast :: Broadcast (n.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing..

Driftless :: Driftless (a.) Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.

Sinister :: Sinister (a.) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims..

Scattering :: Scattering (a.) Going or falling in various directions; not united or aggregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes..

Provincial :: Provincial (n.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order..

Couple :: Couple (a.) Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes..

Anemograph :: Anemograph (n.) An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind.

Timber :: Timber (n.) A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united..

Swing :: Swing (v. i.) To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung open..

Dirempt :: Dirempt (a.) Divided; separated.

Appoint :: Appoint (v. t.) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed..

Half-ray :: Half-ray (n.) A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both directions..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.

Distort :: Distort (v. t.) To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.

Payee :: Payee (n.) The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill..

Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To practice indirect or evasive methods.

Screw :: Screw (n.) A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or,

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