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Perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error. Milton. To range amid the mazy thicket. Spenser. To run the ring, and trace the mazy round. Dryden.

To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous. Dryton.

Winding; having many turns.

To serve as the measure of; as, the thermometer measures changes of temperature.

The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight. Ps. xix. 14.

A silver coin of Turkey formerly rated at twenty, but since 1880 at nineteen, piasters (about 83 cents).

he Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.

One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell.

A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common and the wild turkeys.

f concealed. M. communis, from the West Indies, is often cultivated, and sometimes called Turk's cap. (b) The related genus Mamillaria, in which the stem is tubercled rather than ribbed, and the flowers sometimes large. See Illust. under Cactus.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon resembling oil of turpentine, obtained by dehydrating menthol. It has an agreeable odor and a cooling taste.

; to put on a new appearance. Now everything doth mew, And shifts his rustic winter robe. Turbervile.

An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. [Eng.] Mr. Turveydrop's great room... was built out into a mews at the back. Dickens.

Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice." Arbuthnot.

A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.

A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.

nted edge or surface, for producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure, as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter.

with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes,... mincing as they go. Is. iii. 16. I 'll... turn two mincing steps Into a manly stride. Shak.

To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

er side of the hinged seat of a church stall (see Stall). It was intended, the seat being turned up, to give some support to a worshiper when standing. Called also misericordia.