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To cause to turn; to turn. [Obs.] O, which way shall I first convert myself B. Jonson.

s from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.

To make return for; to requite; to repay. [Obs.] three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, We freely cope your courteous pains withal. Shak.

A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians.

ke friends; -- usually followed by with. [Colloq.] A quarrel will end in one of you being turned off, in which case it will not be easy to cotton with another. Swift. Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion Sir W. Scott.

m is not present. (c) To prevent the accession of (a person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; -- said of a candidate really elected. [Colloq.]

To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing. His left hand countered provokingly. C. Kingsley.

To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.

To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.

A stroke or blow in return. Spenser.

To cause to wheel or turn in an opposite direction.

A counter tally; correspondence (in sound). [Obs.] At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.

ith a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship. Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred. Gen. xxxxii. 9. I might have learned this by my last exile, that change of countries cannot change my state. Stirling. Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account Milto…

The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn. He appointed . . . the courses of the priests 2 Chron. viii. 14.

To overwhelm; to spread over. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen. Ex. xiv. 28.

A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilatingshaft, etc.

A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.

, the patella of a sheep; -- formerly used as a charm for the cramp. Halliwell. "He could turn cramp bones into chess men." Dickens. -- Cramp ring, a ring formerly supposed to have virtue in averting or curing cramp, as having been consecrated by one of the kings of England on Good Friday.

Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage. So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks. Spenser.

To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle. Old Veg's stream . . . drew her humid train aslope, Crankling her banks. J. Philips.