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A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.

In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe.

the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequen…

The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The subversion [by a storm] of woods and timber . . . through my whole estate.…

The act of turning the hand palm upward; also, position of the hand with the palm upward.

A plow for turning up grass land.

ounds, in the rear of the front axle, so as to slide on the reach as the axle is swung in turning the vehicle.

The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.

To climb or move upward by winding or turning. The tree was high; Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved. Dryden.

A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural.

A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it.

Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.

A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; -- called also swivel gun. Wilhelm. Swivel bridge, a kind of drawbridge that turns round on a vertical axis; a swing bridge. -- Swivel hook, a hook connected with the iron strap of a pulley block by a swivel joint, for readily taking the turns out of a tackle.…

igin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning. Dana.

, in advancing the lines of approach. -- Tail spindle, the spindle of the tailstock of a turning lathe; -- called also dead spindle. -- To turn tail, to run away; to flee. Would she turn tail to the heron, and fly quite out another way; but all was to return in a higher pitch. Sir P. Sidney.

The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.

, frequent pointing positions, and a great variety of steps, including the cross step and turning steps. The dance is of Spanish origin, and is believed to have been in its original form a part of the fandango.

ink, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke.

The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants.

Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.