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The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople. The cross of our faith is replanted, The pale, dying crescent is daunted. Campbell.

A Turkish musical instrument.

A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life.

Master; sir; -- a title of a Turkish state official and man of learning, especially one learned in the law.

To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay. If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned. Shak.

A written decision of a Turkish mufti on some point of law. Whitworth.

A Turkish general, and standard keeper.

A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.

A Turkish standard, denoting rank.

ng within an inclosure; shut off from public sight; private; secluded; retired. I have no Turkish proclivities, and I do not think that, after all, impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to intraparietal hanging. Roll

A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826. [written also janissary.]

A Turkish judge. See Cadi.

A Turkish open summer house or pavilion, supported by pillars.

A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies. [Written also Koord.]

(Mus.) A Turkish instrument of music, with a hollow body covered with skin, over which five strings are stretched. [Written also kussir.]

A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea.

A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

A large Turkish ship. Crabb.

A gold coin of Turkey equal to one hundred piastres ($4.396 or 18s. ¾d.); a lira, or Turkish pound.

One of the higher order of Turkish judges; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man. [Written also moolah.]