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A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern]. Fairholt.

To turn amiss; to pervert.

An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.

Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden.

By night; nightly.

ow used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's "Midsummer-Night's Dream" music.

Same as Nocturne.

To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.

One who overturns. South.

To turn again.

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. "Return to your father's house." Chaucer. On their embattled ranks the waves return. Milton. If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom. Locke. Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Gen. iii. 19.

Capable of, or admitting of, being returned.

One who returns.

Admitting no return. Chapman.

One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), anf the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.

the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.

Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia.

Of or pertaining to Saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the golden age.

Appearing as if seen from the center of the planet Saturn; relating or referred to Saturn as a center.