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To cause to turn; to bend. [R.] Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends Her silver stream. W. Browne.

heel, spindle, or the like; a trundle. [Obs.] The shaft the wheel, the wheel, the trendle turns. Sylvester.

A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.

A disease of the eye, in which the eyelashes, being turned in upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the lids.

A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours.

To turn round; to twirl. [Obs.] Gascoigne. Bid him descend and trill another pin. Chaucer.

riumph or victory; as, a triumphal crown; a triumphal arch. Messiah his triumphal chariot turned. Milton.

OF or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round. "By art trochilic." Camden.

To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn. To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye. Milton.

which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.

der, to the circumference of which spiral vanes or floats, placed radially, are attached, turned by the impact of one or more streams of water, conducted so as to strike against the floats in the direction of a tangent to the cylinder.

To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.

A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.

different tools into action successively in a machine, as in a lathe. -- Turret lathe, a turning lathe having a turret head. -- Turret ship, an ironclad war vessel, with low sides, on which heavy guns are mounted within one or more iron turrets, which may be rotated, so that the guns may be made to bear in any requir…

To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander. As rivers, though they bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline. Swift.

To move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and turn rapidly with the fingers. See ruddy maids, Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel. Dodsley. No more beneath soft eve's consenting star Fandango twirls his jocund castanet. Byron.

Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.

To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a cable. Totten.

To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.

To turn from the Christian faith; to cause to abandon the belief and profession of Christianity.