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To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock. He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation. Goldsmith. To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. [Slang]

A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock.

A Turkish general, and standard keeper.

originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany. Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss. Shak.…

In Turkey and other Oriental countries, a porter or burden bearer; specif., in Western India, a palanquin bearer.

A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.

A heart-shaped bulbous root, about the size of a finger, brought from Turkey, formerly used as a cathartic.

low. See All, adv. [Collog.] The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. Darwin.

A Turkish standard, denoting rank.

xv. 42. The same preservation, or, rather, incorruption, we have observed in the flesh of turkeys, capons, etc. Sir T. Browne.

Debt and usury is the incubus which weighs most heavily on the agricultural resources of Turkey. J. L. Farley.

ng within an inclosure; shut off from public sight; private; secluded; retired. I have no Turkish proclivities, and I do not think that, after all, impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to intraparietal hanging. Roll

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

A Turkish judge. See Cadi.

An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier. [Turkey]

A inn. [Turkey] See Khan.

A king; a prince; a chief; a governor; -- so called among the Tartars, Turks, and Persians, and in countries now or formerly governed by them.

A governor or viceroy; -- a title granted in 1867 by the sultan of Turkey to the ruler of Egypt.

A Turkish open summer house or pavilion, supported by pillars.

A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies. [Written also Koord.]