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A turning away. [Obs.] Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury.

To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted "To avert his ire." Milton. When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church. Bacon.…

Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious. Who scornful pass it with averted eye. Keble.

of women. Richardson. In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of agriculture. Buckle.…

Turned away; away. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. "Your crown's awry." Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air. Milton.

as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.

A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.

e action of a cat when attacked.). [Colloq.] -- To see the back of, to get rid of. -- To turn the back, to go away; to flee. -- To turn the back on one, to forsake or neglect him.

With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.

bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.

Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.

To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim. Cowper.

iven by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ.

Misery; Let now your bliss be turned into bale. Spenser.

the like. [Archaic] If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them. Chatham.

and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.

the bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. [Eng.] -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a queen. [Eng.]

To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel. Totten.