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

A variety of monazite.

Things or forms made by a turner, or in the lathe. Chairs of wood, the seats triangular, the backs, arms, and legs loaded with turnery. Walpole.

One who overturns. South.

One who returns.

ree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees. Black alder. (a) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verti…

A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. See Ambrosia, 3. Turner.

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

of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc. Box elder, the ash-leaved maple (Negundo aceroides), of North America. -- Box holly, the butcher's broom (Russus aculeatus). -- Box thorn, a shrub (Lycium barbarum). -- B…

A circular revolving brush used by turners, lapidaries, silversmiths, etc., for polishing.

To deprive of color; to whiten. Turner. -- De*col`or*i*za"tion, n.

a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and Guiana is the Nectandra Rodioei, that of Martinique is the Colubrina ferruginosa. -- Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite. -- Green laver (Bot.), an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima); -- called a…

A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end.

k. See Scrub oak. -- Holly rose (Bot.), a West Indian shrub, with showy, yellow flowers (Turnera ulmifolia). -- Sea holly (Bot.), a species of Eryngium. See Eryngium.

om the coast. Cook. The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. S. Turner.

A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.

A turner's lathe; a throwe. [Prov. Eng.]

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

Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.

Old Chem.), a yellow pigment consisting essentially of a lead oxychloride; -- called also Turner's yellow.