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A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.

The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round. A certain turbulent and irregular circumgyration. Holland.

Moving in a circle; turning round. Hawthorne.

turning, rolling, or whirling round.

. See under Bowlder. -- Brick clay, the common clay, containing some iron, and therefore turning red when burned. -- Clay cold, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate. -- Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand. -- Clay marl, a whitish, smooth, chalky…

A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. Knight.

To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim.

or determining directions upon the carth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pinting in a northerly and southerly direction. He that firat discovered the use of the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses. Locke.…

as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing. In contemplation of returning at an early date, he left. Reid. To have in contemplation, to inted or purpose, or to have under consideration.

A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.

Turning or looking opposite ways. [Obs.] The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton.

The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change. Artificial conversion of water into ice. Bacon. The conversion of the aliment into fat. Arbuthnot.

s from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.

To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.

A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilatingshaft, etc.

Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage. So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks. Spenser.

Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a door.

air or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point. This hour's the very crisis of your fate. Dryden. The very times of crisis for the fate of the country. Brougham.

Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation. Our circumstances are indeed critical. Burke. The small moment, the exact point, th…

Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." Locke. he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. Shak.