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Turn
King James Dictionary
or TURN, L. turnus torniare, to turn tornare, to return torneare, tornire, to turn, to fence round, to tilt torniamento, tournament.
1. To cause to move in a circular course as, to turn a wheel to turn a spindle to turn the body.
2. To change or shift sides to put the upper side downwards, or one side in the place of the other. It is said a hen turns her eggs often when sitting.
3. To alter, as a position.
Expert
When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway of battle.
4. To cause to preponderate to change the state of a balance as, to turn the scale.
5. To bring the inside out as,to turn a coat.
6. To alter, as the posture of the body, or direction of the look.
The monarch turns him to his royal guest.
7. To form on a lathe to make round.
8. To form to shape used in the participle as a body finely turned.
Him limbs how turn'd.
9. To change to transform as,to turn evil to good to turn goods into money.
Impatience turns an ague into a fever.
I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. 2 Samuel 15
10. To metamorphose as, to turn a worm into a winged insect.
11. To alter or change, as color as, to turn green to blue.
12. To change or alter in any manner to vary.
13. To translate as, to turn Greek into English.
--Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown.
14. To change, as the manner of writing as,to turn prose into verse.
15. To change, as from one opinion or party to another as, to turn one from a tory to whig to turn Mohammedan or a pagan to a Christian.
16. To change in regard to inclination or temper.
Turn thee to me, and have mercy upon me. Psalms 25
17. To change or alter from one purpose or effect to another.
God will make these evils the occasion of greater good, by turning them to our advantage.
18. To transfer.
Therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom to David. 1 Chronicles 10 .
19. To cause to nauseate or lothe as, to turn the stomach.
20. To make giddy.
Eastern priests in giddy circles run,
And turn their heads to imitate the sun.
21. To infatuate to make mad, wild or enthusiastic as, to turn the brain.
22. To change direction to or from any point as, to turn the eyes to the heavens to turn the eyes from a disgusting spectacle.
23. To direct by a change to a certain purpose or object to direct, as the inclination, thoughts or mind. I have turned my mind to the subject.
My thoughts are turn'd on peace.
24. To revolve to agitate in the mind.
Turn those ideas about in your mind.
25. To bend from a perpendicular direction as, to turn the edge of an instrument.
26. To move from a direct course or strait line to cause to deviate as, to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course.
27. To apply by a change of use.
When the passage is open, land will be turned most to cattle.
28. To reverse.
The Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee. Deuteronomy 30
29. To keep passing and changing in the course of trade as, to turn money or stock two or three times in the year.
30. To adapt the mind chiefly in the participle.
He was perfectly well turned for trade.
31. To make acid to sour as, to turn cider or wine to turn milk.
32. To persuade to renounce an opinion to dissuade from a purpose, or cause to change sides. You cannot turn a firm man.
To turn aside, to avert.
To turn away, to dismiss from service to discard as, to turn away a servant.
1. To avert as, to turn away wrath or evil.
To turn back, to return as, to turn back goods to the seller. Little used.
To turn down, to fold or double down.
To turn in, to fold or double as, to turn in the edge of cloth.
To turn off, to dismiss contemptuously as, to turn off a sycophant or parasite.
1. To give over to resign. We are not so wholly turned off from that reversion.
2. To divert to deflect as, to turn off the thoughts from serious subjects.
To be turned of, to be advanced beyond as, to be turned of sixty six.
To turn out, to drive out to expel as, to turn a family out of doors, or out of the house.
1. To put to pasture as cattle or horses.
To turn over, to change sides to roll over.
1. To transfer as, to turn over a business to another hand.
2. To open and examine one leaf after another as, to turn over a concordance.
3. To overset.
turn to, to have recourse to.
Helvetius' tables may be turned to on all occasions.
To turn upon, to retort to throw back as, to turn the arguments of an opponent upon himself.
To turn the back, to flee to retreat. Exodus 23
To turn the back upon, to quit with contempt to forsake.
To turn the die or dice, to change fortune.
TURN, To move round to have a circular motion as, a wheel turns on its axis a spindle turns on a pivot a man turns on his heel.
1. To be directed.
The understanding turns inwards on itself, and reflects on its own operations.
2. To show regard by directing the look towards any thing.
Turn mighty monarch, turn this way
Do not refuse to hear.
3. To move the body round. He turned to me with a smile.
4. To move to change posture. Let your body be at rest do not turn in the least.
5. To deviate as, to turn from the road or course.
6. To alter to be changed or transformed as, wood turns to stone water turns to ice one color turns to another.
7. To become by change as, the fur of certain animals turns in winter.
Cygnets from gray turn white.
8. To change sides. A man in a fever turns often.
9. To change opinions or parties as, to turn Christian or Mohammedan.
10. To change the mind or conduct.
Turn from thy fierce wrath. Exodus 32
11. To change to acid as,mild turns suddenly during a thunder storm.
12. To be brought eventually to result or terminate in. This trade has not turned to much account or advantage. The application of steam turns to good account, both on land and water.
13. To depend on for decision. The question turns on a single fact or point.
14. To become giddy.
I'll look no more,
Lest my brain turn.
15. To change a course of life to repent.
Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why will ye die? Ezekiel 33 .
16. To change the course or direction as, the tide turns.
To turn about, to move the face to another quarter.
To turn away, to deviate.
1. To depart from to forsake.turn in, to bend inwards.
1. To enter for lodgings or entertainment. Genesis 19
2. To go to bed.
To turn off, to be diverted to deviate from a course. The road turns off to the left.
To turn on or upon, to reply or retort.
1. To depend on.
To turn out, to move from its place, as a bone.
1. To bend outwards to project.
2. To rise from bed also, to come abroad.
To turn over, to turn from side to side to roll to tumble.
1. To change sides or parties.
To turn to, to be directed as, the needle turns to the magnetic pole.
To turn under, to bend or be folded downwards.
To turn up, to bend or be doubled upwards.
TURN, n. The act of turning movement or motion in a circular direction, whether horizontally, vertically or otherwise a revolution as the turn of a wheel.
1. A winding a meandering course a bend or bending as the turn of river.
2. A walk to and from.
I will take a turn in your garden.
3. Change alteration vicissitude as the turns and varieties of passions.
Too well the turns of mortal chance I know.
4. Successive course.
Nobleness and bounty--which virtues had their turns in the king's nature.
5. Manner of proceeding change of direction. This affair may take a different turn from that which we expect.
6. Chance hap opportunity.
Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
7. Occasion incidental opportunity.
An old dog falling from his speed, was loaded at every turn with blows and reproaches.
8. Time at which, by successive vicissitudes, any thing is to be had or done. They take each other's turn.
His turn will come to laugh at you again.
9. Action of kindness or malice.
Thanks are half lost when good turns are delay'd.
Some malicious natures place their delight in doing turns.
10. Reigning inclination or course. Religion is not to be adapted to the turn and fashion of the age.
11. A step off the ladder at the gallows.
12. Convenience occasion purpose exigence as, this will not serve his turn.
13. Form cast shape manner in a literal or figurative sense as the turn of thought a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.
The turn of his thoughts and expression is unharmonious.
Female virtues are of a domestic turn.
The Roman poets, in their description of a beautiful man, often mention the turn of his neck and arms.
14. Manner of arranging words in a sentence.
15. Change new position of things. Some evil happens at every turn of affairs.
16. Change of direction as the turn of the tide from flood to ebb.
17. One round of a rope or cord.
18. In mining, a pit sunk in some part of a drift.
19. Turn or tourn, in law. The sheriff's turn is a court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county. England.
By turns, one after another alternately.
They assist each other by turns.
1. At intervals.
They feel by turns the bitter change.
To take turns, to take each other's places alternately.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Turn'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/t/turn.html.
