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Turning or facing inward, or toward the axis of the part to which it belongs. Gray.

The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward. Berkeley.

To turn or bend inward. "Introverted toes." Cowper.

To render turbid; to darken; to confuse. [R.] The confusion of ideas and conceptions under the same term painfully inturbidates his theology. Coleridge.

The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.

To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc. That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. Shak. Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its prop…

Capable of being inverted or turned.

Turned into, or reduced to, a village. [Obs.] W. Browne.

Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea.

Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward. So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward. Milton.

in the form of an oxide (as hematite, magnetite, etc.), or a hydrous oxide (as limonite, turgite, etc.). It is reduced on an enormous scale in three principal forms; viz., cast iron, steel, and wrought iron. Iron usually appears dark brown, from oxidation or impurity, but when pure, or an fresh surface, is a gray or w…

Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.

To close; to end; to terminate; to turn out; as, we know not how the cause will issue.

e who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled. Glad to turn itinerant, To stroll and teach from town to town. Hudibras.

A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.

proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue.

Idle babbling; vain disputation. From which some, having swerved, have turned aside unto vain jangling. 1 Tim. i. 6.

A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826. [written also janissary.]

ing black lacquer or varnish, consisting essentially of asphaltum dissolved in naphtha or turpentine, and used for coating ironwork; -- called also Brunswick black, Japan lacquer, or simply Japan. -- Japan camphor, ordinary camphor brought from China or Japan, as distinguished from the rare variety called borneol or B…

A turn. [Only in phrase.] On the jar, on the turn, ajar, as a door.