Vocabulary : Turnplate to Turnwrest

Turnplate : A turntable.
Turn-sick : Giddy. ;; A disease with which sheep are sometimes affected; gid; sturdy. See Gid.
Turnsole : A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun. ;; The sunflower. ;; A kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia). ;; The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora tinctoria. ;; Litmus. ;; A purple dye obtained from the plant turnsole. See def. 1 (d).
Turnspit : One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office. ;; 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.
Turnstile : A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1. ;; A similar arrangement for registering the number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or the like.

Turnstone : 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.
Turntable : A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.
Turnus : 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.
Turnverein : A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.
Turnwrest : Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent. ;; designating a kind of hillside plow.

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