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ink, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke.

A temporizer. [Obs.] Why, turn a temporist, row with the tide. Marston.

well down. Chapman. To tend a vessel (Naut.), to manage an anchored vessel when the tide turns, so that in swinging she shall not entangle the cable.

ges color in some specific way when acted upon by those substances; thus, litmus paper is turned red by acids, and blue by alkalies, turmeric paper is turned brown by alkalies, etc. (b) (Law) An instrument admitted as a standard or comparison of handwriting in those jurisdictions in which comparison of hands is permitt…

stop there, but continued his speech. The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend And turns it to exile; there art thou happy. Shak.

From this or that. Turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left. John. xxiii. 6.

The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants.

pity or contempt. See, sons, what things you are! Shak. The poor thing sighed, and . . . turned from me. Addison. I'll be this abject thing no more. Granville. I have a thing in prose. Swift.

Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.

loods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick- ribbed ice. Shak. Vivid and picturesque turns of expression which thrill the M. Arnold. The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled, That sudden cold did run through every vein. Spenser.

for regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. In one form it consists of a disk turning on a transverse axis.

To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.

A turning lathe. [Prov. Eng.]

-- Thumb nut, a nut for a screw, having wings to grasp between the thumb and fingers in turning it; also, a nut with a knurled rim for the same perpose. -- Thumb ring, a ring worn on the thumb. Shak. -- Thumb stall. (a) A kind of thimble or ferrule of iron, or leather, for protecting the thumb in making sails, and…

A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.

th a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over.

A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.

to tip a cask; to tip a cart. To tip off, to pour out, as liquor. -- To tip over, to overturn. -- To tip the wink, to direct a wink; to give a hint or suggestion by, or as by, a wink. [Slang] Pope. -- To tip up, to turn partly over by raising one end.

, or one of several similar species. -- Tippet grouse (Zoöl.), the ruffed grouse. -- To turn tippet, to change. [Obs.] B. Jonson.