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One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer. By these shavers the Turks were stripped. Knolles.

The sacred law of the Turkish empire.

The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle. The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot. Bacon. One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk. Drayton.

o expense in strengthening this city; since which time we find no solemn taking it by the Turks. Fuller.

inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigeuz. It was larger and taller than the wild turkey. Its wings were too small for flight. Called also solitary.

Formerly, one of the Turkish cavalry.

riety of Mediterranean sponge (Spongia officinalis, variety Mediterranea); -- called also turkish sponge. -- To set a sponge (Cookery), to leaven a small mass of flour, to be used in leavening a larger quantity. -- To throw up the sponge, to give up a contest; to acknowledge defeat; -- from a custom of the prize ring…

To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.

A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called. Sultan flower. (Bot.) See Sweet sultan, under Sweet.

A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey. Sultana bird (Zoöl.), the hyacinthine, or purple, gallinule. See Illust. under Gallinule.

, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to strut; to look big. Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock. Shak.

A genus of Australian birds which includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.

A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See Fez.

inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar.

Provided or cooked with truffles; stuffed with truffles; as, a truffled turkey.

Wearing a turban. " A malignant and a turbaned Turk." Shak.

A turban. [Obs.] Milton. I see the Turk nodding with his turbant. Howell.

A mode of speech peculiar to the Turks; a Turkish idiom or expression; also, in general, a Turkish mode or custom.

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

A college or corporation in Turkey composed of the hierarchy, namely, the imams, or ministers of religion, the muftis, or doctors of law, and the cadis, or administrators of justice.