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A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.

A major in the Turkish army.

To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. "To bone a turkey." Soyer.

Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish.

A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders. Bowstring bridge, a bridge formed of an arch of timber or iron, often braced, the thrust of which is resisted by a tie forming a chord of the arch. -- Bowstring girder, an arched beam strengthened by a tie connecting its two ends. -- Bowstring hemp (Bot.), the tena…

The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.

n Roman or Greek empire from A.D. 364 or A.D. 395 to the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, A.D. 1453. -- Byzantine historians, historians and writers (Zonaras, Procopius, etc.) who lived in the Byzantine empire. P. Cyc. Byzantine style (Arch.), a style of architecture developed in the Byzantine empire.…

A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.

A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers.

A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold. [Turkey]

The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey.

successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey, [Writting also calif.]

The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet.

A Turkish man-of-war.

A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the wattles of a turkey, etc.

lesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.

(Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and southern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak.

A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.

A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.