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(Mus.) A Turkish instrument of music, with a hollow body covered with skin, over which five strings are stretched. [Written also kussir.]

A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea.

gallinaceous birds including but a single species (Leipoa ocellata), about the size of a turkey. Its color is variegated, drown, black, white, and gray. Called also native pheasant.

-- Tiger lily (Bot.), Lilium tigrinum, the sepals of which are blotched with black. -- Turk's-cap lily (Bot.) Lilium Martagon, a red lily with recurved sepals; also, the similar American lily, L. superbum. -- Water lily (Bot.), the Nymphæa, a plant with floating roundish leaves, and large flowers having many petals…

An intoxicating confection from the hemp plant; -- used by the Turks and Hindoos. [Written also majoun.]

A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

A large Turkish ship. Crabb.

A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs.

lence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious. A malignant and a turbaned Turk. Shak.

An excitant containing opium, much used by the Turks. Dunglison.

See Kulturkampf, above.

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

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.

One of the higher order of Turkish judges; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man. [Written also moolah.]

A Moor. [Obs.] In vain the Turks and Morians armed be. Fairfax.

Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.

In Turkey, an administrative authority of any of certain sanjaks. They are appointed directly by the Sultan.

In Turkey, a sanjak whose head is a mutessarif.

an Australian singing bird (Pachycephala olivacea); -- called also thickhead. -- Native turkey (Zoöl.), the Australian bustard (Choriotis australis); -- called also bebilya.