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A inn. [Turkey] See Khan.

A governor or viceroy; -- a title granted in 1867 by the sultan of Turkey to the ruler of Egypt.

gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, drown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant.

A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs.

A silver coin of Turkey formerly rated at twenty, but since 1880 at nineteen, piasters (about 83 cents).

A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common and the wild turkeys.

In Turkey, an administrative authority of any of certain sanjaks. They are appointed directly by the Sultan.

In Turkey, a sanjak whose head is a mutessarif.

an Australian singing bird (Pachycephala olivacea); -- called also thickhead. -- Native turkey (Zoöl.), the Australian bustard (Choriotis australis); -- called also bebilya.

A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate.

Marked with eyelike spots of color; as, the ocellated blenny. Ocellated turkey (Zoöl.), the wild turkey of Central America (Meleagris ocellata).

The inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (the Opoponax Chironum), brought from Turkey and the East Indies in loose granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color, with specks of white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic…

A stuffed seat without a back, originally used in Turkey.

Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.

A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw. [Written also pacha.]

rkish conquest of the city, became the chief Greek quarter; hence, the Greek officials of Turkey, or phanariots, as a class.

An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague. "A plague upon the people fell." Tennyson. Cattle plague. See Rinderpest. -- Plague mark, Plague spot,…

owls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.

In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.