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One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell.

nclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.

A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.

One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned. Oxf. Gloss.

of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridæ, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap.

ing to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets. "Spiry towns." Thomson.

Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting. "The round, squat turret." R. Browning. The head [of the squill insect] is broad and squat. Grew.

A tower; a turret. [R.] Ray.

A Turret. [Obs.]

A turban. [Obs.] With hundred turrets like a turribant. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower.

Furnished with, or formed like, a small turret or turrets; somewhat turreted.

ne gastropod belonging to Turritella and allied genera. These mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls. They have a rounded aperture, and a horny multispiral operculum.

t; as, a written vote. The freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. Holmes.