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In a turbulent manner.

A mode of speech peculiar to the Turks; a Turkish idiom or expression; also, in general, a Turkish mode or custom.

A member of a tribe of Turanians inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea.

A division of singing birds including the thrushes and allied kinds.

A genus of singing birds including the true thrushes.

A large, deep vessel for holding soup, or other liquid food, at the table. [Written also terreen.]

As much as a tureen can hold; enough to fill a tureen.

all plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod. At his head a grass-green turf. Shak. The Greek historian sets her in the field on a high heap of turves. Milton.

Made of turf; covered with turf.

Quality or state of being turfy.

The act or process of providing or covering with turf. Turfing iron, or Turfing spade, an implement for cutting, and paring off, turf.

A votary of the turf, or race course; hence, sometimes, a blackleg. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Destitute of turf.

A turfite; a votary of the turf, or race course. [Colloq.]

Abounding with turf; made of, or covered with, turf. "The turfy mountains." Shak.

Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors.

To become turgid; to swell or be inflated. [R.]

The act of swelling, or the state of being swollen, or turgescent. Sir T. Browne.

Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. Boyle.