Word Meanings - WHISKET - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A small lathe for turning wooden pins. (more info) 1. A basket; esp., a straw provender basket. Halliwell.
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- BASKET BALL
A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets. - TURNINGNESS
The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney. - STRAW-CUTTER
An instrument to cut straw for fodder. - TURNSTONE
Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and - TURNING
The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod - TURN-SICK
Giddy. Bacon. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - TURNVEREIN
A company or association of gymnasts and athletes. - TURNHALLE
A building used as a school of gymnastics. - TURNSPIT
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. (more info) 1. One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office. His lordship - TURNSOLE
+ sole the sun, L. sol. See Turn, Solar, a., and cf. 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 . The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora - TURN-BUCKLE
A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc. A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp. - TURNCOAT
One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate. He is a turncoat, he was not true to his profession. Bunyan. - TURNBULL'S BLUE
The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, used in dyeing, calico printing, etc. Cf. Prussian blue, under Prussian. - TURNERY
1. The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe. 2. Things or forms made by a turner, or in the lathe. Chairs of wood, the seats triangular, the backs, arms, and legs loaded with turnery. Walpole. - TURNTABLE
A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate. - WOODENLY
Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly. R. North. - TURNDOWN
1. Capable of being turned down; specif. , designating, or pertaining to, an incandescent lamp with a small additional filament which can be made incandescent when only a small amount of light is required. 2. Made to wear with the upper part - STRAWED
imp. & p. p. of Straw. - LATHEREEVE; LATHREEVE
Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe. - RE-TURN
To turn again. - JACKSTRAW
1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together - NOCTURNAL
1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects. - SATURNISM
Plumbum. Quain. - DIUTURNAL
Of long continuance; lasting. Milton. - OVERTURN
1. To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building. 2. To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow. 3. To overpower; to conquer. Milton. Syn. -- To demolish; overthrow. See Demolish. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - BREADBASKET
The stomach. S. Foote. - LECTURN
A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. . Fairholt. - NOTTURNO
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