7. Specifically: —
(a) To become acid; to sour; — said of milk, ale, etc.
(b) To become giddy; — said of the head or brain.
I'll look no more;
Lest my brain turn.
Shak. (c) To be nauseated; — said of the stomach.
(d) To become inclined in the other direction; — said of scales.
(e) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; — said of the tide.
(f) (Obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
8. (Print.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
To turn about, to face to another quarter; to turn around. — To turn again, to come back after going; to
return. Shak. — To turn against, to become unfriendly or hostile to. — To turn aside or away.
(a) To turn from the direct course; to withdraw from a company; to deviate. (b) To depart; to remove.
(c) To avert one's face. — To turn back, to turn so as to go in an opposite direction; to retrace one's
steps. — To turn in. (a) To bend inward. (b) To enter for lodgings or entertainment. (c) To go to
bed. [Colloq.] — To turn into, to enter by making a turn; as, to turn into a side street. — To turn
off, to be diverted; to deviate from a course; as, the road turns off to the left. — To turn on or upon.
(a) To turn against; to confront in hostility or anger. (b) To reply to or retort. (c) To depend on; as, the
result turns on one condition. — To turn out. (a) To move from its place, as a bone. (b) To bend or
point outward; as, his toes turn out. (c) To rise from bed. [Colloq.] (d) To come abroad; to appear; as,
not many turned out to the fire. (e) To prove in the result; to issue; to result; as, the crops turned out
poorly. — To turn over, to turn from side to side; to roll; to tumble. — To turn round. (a) To change
position so as to face in another direction. (b) To change one's opinion; to change from one view or
party to another. — To turn to, to apply one's self to; have recourse to; to refer to. "Helvicus's tables
may be turned to on all occasions." Locke. — To turn to account, profit, advantage, or the like,
to be made profitable or advantageous; to become worth the while. — To turn under, to bend, or be
folded, downward or under. — To turn up. (a) To bend, or be doubled, upward. (b) To appear; to
come to light; to transpire; to occur; to happen.
Turn
(Turn) n.
1. The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn
of a wheel.
2. Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as,
the turn of the tide.
At length his complaint took a favorable turn.
Macaulay.
The turns and varieties of all passions.
Hooker.
Too well the turns of mortal chance I know.
Pope. 3. One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to
change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander.
And all its [the river's] thousand turns disclose.
Some fresher beauty varying round.
Byron.
