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The quality or state of being turbid; muddiness; foulness.

A whirl; a vortex. Spectator.

Of or pertaining to peat, or turf; of the nature of peat, or turf; peaty; turfy. Sir. W. Scott.

Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers.

To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl. [R.]

Whirling in the manner of a top. A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole. Bentley.

The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.

ral chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.

A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.

A petrified shell resembling the genus Turbo. [R.]

Like or pertaining to Turbo or the family Turbinidæ.

The turbot.

A fossil turbo.

See Turpeth.

Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidæ, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.

An electric generator or dynamo which is combined on one frame with a turbomotor, by which it is driven.

Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.

The quality or state of being turbulent; a disturbed state; tumult; disorder; agitation. Shak. The years of . . . warfare and turbulence which ensued. Southey.

Turbulence. What a tale of terror now its turbulency tells! Poe.

Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean. Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. Milton.