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- English Word Turnsole Definition A purple dye obtained from the plant turnsole. See def. 1 (d).
- English Word Turnspit Definition One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office.
- English Word Turnspit Definition A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting.
- English Word Turnstile Definition A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1.
- English Word Turnstile Definition A similar arrangement for registering the number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or the like.
- English Word Turnstone Definition Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake.
- English Word Turntable Definition A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.
- English Word Turnus Definition A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio, / Jasoniades, glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called also tiger swallowtail. See Illust. under Swallowtail.
- English Word Turnverein Definition A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.
- English Word Turnwrest Definition Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent.
- English Word Turnwrest Definition designating a kind of hillside plow.
- English Word Turonian Definition One of the subdivisions into which the Upper Cretaceous formation of Europe is divided.
- English Word Turpentine Definition A semifluid or fluid oleoresin, primarily the exudation of the terebinth, or turpentine, tree (Pistacia Terebinthus), a native of the Mediterranean region. It is also obtained from many coniferous trees, especially species of pine, larch, and fir.
- English Word Turpeth Definition The root of Ipom/a Turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar, and Australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; -- sometimes called vegetable turpeth.
- English Word Turpeth Definition A heavy yellow powder, Hg3O2SO4, which consists of a basic mercuric sulphate; -- called also turpeth mineral.
- English Word Turpin Definition A land tortoise.
- English Word Turpitude Definition Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity.
- English Word Turquois Definition A hydrous phosphate of alumina containing a little copper; calaite. It has a blue, or bluish green, color, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface.
- English Word Turquoise Definition Alt. of Turquois
- English Word Turquoise Definition Having a fine light blue color, like that of choice mineral turquoise.
- English Word Turrel Definition A certain tool used by coopers.
- English Word Turret Definition A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.
- English Word Turret Definition A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
- English Word Turret Definition A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.
- English Word Turret Definition The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.
- English Word Turreted Definition Furnished with a turret or turrets; specifically (Zool.), having the whorls somewhat flattened on the upper side and often ornamented by spines or tubercles; -- said of certain spiral shells.
- English Word Turreted Definition Formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp.
- English Word Turribant Definition A turban.
- English Word Turrical Definition Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower.
- English Word Turriculate Definition Alt. of Turriculated