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Double; growing in pairs or couples. Gray.

To hum; to boom.

United; joined; betrothed. [R.]

Concubinage. [Obs.] Johnson.

To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl. [R.]

Whirling in the manner of a top. A spiral and turbinated motion of the whole. Bentley.

Same as Binate.

Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.

tchel, hackle, or heckle. -- Flax cotton, the fiber of flax, reduced by steeping in bicarbinate of soda and acidulated liquids, and prepared for bleaching and spinning like cotton. Knight. -- Flax dresser, one who breaks and swingles flax, or prepares it for the spinner. -- Flax mill, a mill or factory where flax is…

In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. Gray.

The maxillo-turbinal, or inferior turbinate, bone.

Having the shape of a top; (Bot.) cone-shaped, with the apex downward; turbinate.

Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers.

of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidæ, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.