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c system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.

gles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them.

Order; disposition; condition; as, to be in good trim. " The trim of an encounter." Chapman.

To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.

Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive; as, a trying occasion or position.

ting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.

the ball of the foot, followed by a drop upon the heel. The original form, owning to the positions assumed by the dancers, is offensively suggestive. Similar dances are the bunny hug and grizzly bear, so called in allusion to the movements and the positions assumed by the partners in dancing.

volve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head. Turn the adamantine spindle round. Milton. The monarch turns him to his royal gu…

A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned. Turning and boring mill, a kind of lathe having a vertical spindle and horizontal face plate, for turning and boring large work. -- Turning bridge. See the Note under Drawbridge. -- Turning engine, an engine lathe. -- Turning lathe, a lathe used by turners to sha…

re pierced for light and ventilation. Turret clock, a large clock adapted for an elevated position, as in the tower of a church. -- Turret head (Mach.), a vertical cylindrical revolving tool holder for bringing different tools into action successively in a machine, as in a lathe. -- Turret lathe, a turning lathe havi…

A compound crystal composed of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other.

The assemblage of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about. Polysynthetic twinning, repeated twinnin…

ibed by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet so that the consecutive positions of the line shall not be in one plane; a warped surface.

The quality or state of being in a place; local relation; position or location; whereness. [R.] Glanvill.

s, and draperies, being of a purer and tenderer gray that produced by the mixture of more positive colors. Fairholt.

The office or position of an uncle. Lamb.

Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position.

ism between one series of strata and another, especially when due to a disturbance of the position of the earlier strata before the latter were deposited.

Not conformable; not lying in a parallel position; as, unconformable strata. -- Un`con*form"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`con*form"a*bly, adv.

Below or lower, in place or position, with the idea of being covered; lower than; beneath; -- opposed to over; as, he stood under a tree; the carriage is under cover; a cellar extends under the whole house. Fruit put in bottles, and the bottles let down into wells under water, will keep long. Bacon. Be gathered now, ye…