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The quality or state of being turgid.

Turgid. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A shoot or sprout from the ground. Gray.

The golden oriole. [Prov. Eng.]

Same as Turio.

Producing shoots, as asparagus. Barton.

of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey.

The melon cactus. [West Indies]

Turkish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An empire in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia. Turkey carpet, a superior kind of carpet made in Asia Minor and adjoining countries, having a deep pile and composed of pure wool with a weft of different material. It is distinguishable by its coloring and patterns from similar carpets made in India and elsew…

An eccentric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart and with a characteristic rise on 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…

Turkish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Turkish.

Turquois. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to Turkey or the Turks. -- n.

Same as Turcism.

A turtle. [Obs. or Illiterate]

One of a body of native Algerian tirailleurs in the French army, dressed as a Turk. [Written also Turco.]

, or pert. to, a mixed racial type including the Afghans, and characterized chiefly by stature above mean, fair complexion, dark, or sometimes gray, eyes, brachycephaly, and very long, prominent, and moderately narrow nose.

Turquoise.