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all plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod. At his head a grass-green turf. Shak. The Greek historian sets her in the field on a high heap of turves. Milton.

Made of turf; covered with turf.

Quality or state of being turfy.

The act or process of providing or covering with turf. Turfing iron, or Turfing spade, an implement for cutting, and paring off, turf.

A votary of the turf, or race course; hence, sometimes, a blackleg. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Destitute of turf.

A turfite; a votary of the turf, or race course. [Colloq.]

Abounding with turf; made of, or covered with, turf. "The turfy mountains." Shak.

s; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.

ant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

A spade for digging turf. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

To furnish with benches. 'T was benched with turf. Dryden. Stately theaters benched crescentwise. Tennyson.

view; to appear; to dawn. The day begins to break, and night is fied. Shak. And from the turf a fountain broke, and gurgled at our feet. Wordswoorth.

A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.

Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots. [Written also cæspitose.]

Pertaining to, consisting, of resembling, turf; turfy. A cespitous or turfy plant has many stems from the same root, usually forming a close, thick carpet of matting. Martyn.

A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." Carew. "Clods of iron and brass." Milton. "Clods of blood." E. Fairfax. The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon.

ht of fishing in waters belonging to another. -- Common of turbary, the right of digging turf upon the ground of another.

A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.]

A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel. [Scot.] Simmonds.