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Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak. -- Tac"i*turn*ly, adv.

Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking. The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the company of strangers. V. Knox. The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so much offense. Macaulay.

The sheriff's turn, or court.

ion of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle. "In battle and in tourneyment." Chaucer. With cruel tournament the squadrons join. Milton.

Work turned on a lathe; turnery.[Obs.] See Turnery. Evelyn.

A tournament. Bacon. At tilt or tourney or like warlike game. Spenser. We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work. Tennyson.

An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.

A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.

Turn; contour; figure.

tion so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head. Turn the adamantine spindle round. Milton. The monarch turns him to his royal guest. Pope.

A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc.

d; hence, an equipage; as, a man with a showy carriage and horses is said to have a fine turn-out.

Giddy. [Obs.] Bacon.

A turnspit. [Obs.] " One that was her turnbroach." Beau. & Fl.

The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, used in dyeing, calico printing, etc. Cf. Prussian blue, under Prussian.

One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate. He is a turncoat, he was not true to his profession. Bunyan.

Capable of being turned down; specif. (Elec.), designating, or pertaining to, an incandescent lamp with a small additional filament which can be made incandescent when only a small amount of light is required.

See Turnip. [Obs.]

One who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe.