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A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing.

Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.

Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a battle.

A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow. Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. Dryden.

outhern the antarctic circle. -- Polar clock, a tube, containing a polarizing apparatus, turning on an axis parallel to that of the earth, and indicating the hour of the day on an hour circle, by being turned toward the plane of maximum polarization of the light of the sky, which is always 90º from the sun. -- Polar…

s land. Jer. xxxii. 15. Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possessed. Milton.

rd with violence and rapidity. The hurry, precipitation, and rapid motion of the water, returning . . . towards the sea. Woodward.

an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.

oductive of heroic achievements. And kindle with thy own productive fire. Dryden. This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. Spectator.

The act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward.

ourt, as party, juror, etc., intended to secure him from arrest in coming, staying, and returning.

Turning or dipping in any or every direction.

Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.

eciprocating pawl engages to turn the wheel forward, or a stationary pawl to hold it from turning backward.

A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity. Cowper.

or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.

The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindness.

Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram. [R.] Ash.

Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.

Returning. [R.]