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A semifluid or fluid oleoresin, primarily the exudation of the terebinth, or turpentine, tree (Pistacia Terebinthus), a native of the Mediterranean region. It is also obtained from many coniferous trees, especially species of pine, larch, and fir.

North Carolina; -- a nickname alluding to its extensive production of turpentine.

The root of Ipomoea Turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar, and Australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; -- sometimes called vegetable turpeth.

A land tortoise. [Obs.]

Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. Shak.

Having a fine light blue color, like that of choice mineral turquoise.

, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface. [Formerly written also turcois, and turkois.]

A certain tool used by coopers. Sherwood.

A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.

A narrow superstructure running from stem to stern on the upper deck of a steam cargo vessel having a rounded gunwale and sides curved inward convexly.

A whaleback steamer with a hatch coaming, usually about seven feet high, extending almost continuously fore and aft.

Furnished with a turret or turrets; specifically (Zoöl.), having the whorls somewhat flattened on the upper side and often ornamented by spines or tubercles; -- said of certain spiral shells.

A turban. [Obs.] With hundred turrets like a turribant. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower.

Furnished with, or formed like, a small turret or turrets; somewhat turreted.

Any fossil ammonite of the genus Turrilites. The shell forms an open spiral with the later whorls separate.

Any spiral marine gastropod belonging to Turritella and allied genera. These mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls. They have a rounded aperture, and a horny multispiral operculum.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the turritellas.

The turtledove.

A sharp steel spear attached to a cord, used in taking sea turtles. -- Turtle pegging.