Definition of turn

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Turn (n.) Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn..

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Answer :: Answer (n.) To be or act in return or response to.
Redia :: Redia (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix..
Revenge :: Revenge (v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer..
Regress :: Regress (n.) The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. The progress or regress of man..
Gouge :: Gouge (n.) A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood..
Reflect :: Reflect (v.) To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat..
Revolve :: Revolve (v. i.) To return; to pass.
Renverse :: Renverse (a.) Reversed; set with the head downward; turned contrary to the natural position.
Circulate :: Circulate (v. i.) To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body..
Job :: Job (v. i.) To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free..
Lopper :: Lopper (v. i.) To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk..
Repair :: Repair (v. i.) To return.
Inning :: Inning (n.) The state or turn of being in; specifically, in cricket, baseball, etc.,the turn or time of a player or of a side at the bat; -- often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings..
Addorsed :: Addorsed (a.) Set or turned back to back.
Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast..
Postea :: Postea (n.) The return of the judge before whom a cause was tried, after a verdict, of what was done in the cause, which is indorsed on the nisi prius record..
Saturnine :: Saturnine (a.) Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn..
Adversion :: Adversion (n.) A turning towards; attention.
Taciturn :: Taciturn (a.) Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.
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