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  • English Word Turbary Definition A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug.
  • English Word Turbellaria Definition An extensive group of worms which have the body covered externally with vibrating cilia. It includes the Rhabdoc/la and Dendroc/la. Formerly, the nemerteans were also included in this group.
  • English Word Turbellarian Definition One of the Turbellaria. Also used adjectively.
  • English Word Turbeth Definition See Turpeth.
  • English Word Turbid Definition Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine.
  • English Word Turbid Definition Disturbed; confused; disordered.
  • English Word Turbidity Definition Turbidness.
  • English Word Turbidly Definition In a turbid manner; with muddiness or confusion.
  • English Word Turbidly Definition Proudly; haughtily.
  • English Word Turbidness Definition The quality or state of being turbid; muddiness; foulness.
  • English Word Turbillion Definition A whirl; a vortex.
  • English Word Turbinaceous Definition Of or pertaining to peat, or turf; of the nature of peat, or turf; peaty; turfy.
  • English Word Turbinal Definition Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers.
  • English Word Turbinal Definition A turbinal bone or cartilage.
  • English Word Turbinate Definition To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl.
  • English Word Turbinate Definition Alt. of Turbinated
  • English Word Turbinated Definition Whirling in the manner of a top.
  • English Word Turbinated Definition Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root.
  • English Word Turbinated Definition Turbinal.
  • English Word Turbinated Definition Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.
  • English Word Turbination Definition The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.
  • English Word Turbine Definition A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.
  • English Word Turbinella Definition A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.
  • English Word Turbinite Definition A petrified shell resembling the genus Turbo.
  • English Word Turbinoid Definition Like or pertaining to Turbo or the family Turbinidae.
  • English Word Turbit Definition The turbot.
  • English Word Turbit Definition A variety of the domestic pigeon, remarkable for its short beak.
  • English Word Turbite Definition A fossil turbo.
  • English Word Turbith Definition See Turpeth.
  • English Word Turbo Definition Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.