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To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones. Send thee Into the common prison, there to grind. Milton.

Somewhat gray; grizzled. Old squirrels that turn grizzly. Bacon. Grizzly bear (Zoöl.), a large and ferocious bear (Ursus horribilis) of Western North America and the Rocky Mountains. It is remarkable for the great length of its claws.

In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.

The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal.

A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.

Waved or engine-turned. Mollett.

originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany. Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss. Shak.…

The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution. The gyrations of an ascending balloon. De Quincey. If a burning coal be nimbly moved round in a circle, with gyrations continually repeated, the whole circle will appear like fire. Sir I. N…

A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit. Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres. Dryden. Still expanding and ascending gyres. Mrs. Browning.

Turning the plane of polarization circularly or spirally to the right or left.

A turning round. [R.]

Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro. Loudon.

To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute. Hanmer.

tting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.

A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. Dugdale.

A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

In Turkey and other Oriental countries, a porter or burden bearer; specif., in Western India, a palanquin bearer.

[Obs.] That they [engines of war] be both easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about. Robynson (Utopia). For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him. Spenser.

An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.

s, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; -- opposed to love. For in a wink the false love turns to hate. Tennyson.