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He was now grown deform’d, and poor, 
And fit to be turn'd out of door Hudibras. 
To apply by a change of use. 
They all the sacred mysteries of Heaven 
To their own vile advantages shall turn. Milton. 
To reverse; to repeal.—God will turn thy captivity, and 
have compassion upon thee. Deut. —-To keep passing in a 
course of exchange or traffic.—A man must guard, if he 
intends to keep fair with the world, and turn the penny. 
Collier. —To adapt the mind.—However improper he might 
have been for studies of a higher nature, he was perfectly 
well turned for trade. Addison. —To put towards another. 
—I will send my father before thee, and make all thine 
enemies turn their backs unto thee. Exodus. —To retort; 
to throw back.—'Luther’s conscience, by his instigations, 
turns these very reasonings upon him. Atterbury. 
To Turn away. To dismiss from service; to discard.— 
Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent, or be 
turned away. Shakspeare. 
To Turn away. To avert.— A third part of prayer is 
deprecation; that is, when we pray to God to turn away 
some evil from us. Whole Duty of Man. 
To Turn back. To return to the hand from which it 
was received. 
We turn not back the silks upon the merchant, 
When we have spoil’d them. Shakspeare. 
To Turn off. To dismiss contemptuously. 
Having brought our treasure. 
Then take we down his load, and turn him off. 
Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears. Shakspeare. 
To Turn off. To give over; to resign.—The most 
adverse chances are like the ploughing and breaking the 
ground, in order to a more plentiful harvest. And yet we 
are not so wholly turned off to that reversion, as to have no 
supplies for the present; for besides the comfort of so certain 
an expectation in another life, we have promises also for 
this. Decay of Christian Piety. 
To Turn off. To deflect; to divert.—The institution of 
sports was intended by all governments to turn off the 
thoughts of the people from busying themselves in matters 
of state. Addison. 
To be Turned of. To advance to an age beyond. An odd 
ungrammatical phrase .—-Irus, though now turned of fifty, 
has not appeared in the world since five-and-twenty. Addison. 
To Turn over. To transfer.—Excusing himself, and 
turning over the fault to fortune; then let it be your ill 
fortune too. Sidney. 
To Turn over. To refer.—After he had saluted Solyman, 
and was about to declare the cause of his coming, he was 
turned over to the Bassa’s. Knolles. 
To Turn over. To examine one leaf of a book after 
another.—Some conceive they have no more to do than to 
turn over a concordance Swift. 
To Turn over. To throw off the laddder. 
Criminals condemned to suffer 
Are blinded first, and then turn'd over. Butler. 
To Turn to. To have recourse to.—He, that has once 
acquired a prudential habit, doth not, in his business, turn 
to these rules. Grew. 
To TURN, v. n. To move round; to have a circular or 
vertiginous motion. 
Such a light and mettl’d dance 
Saw you never; 
And by lead-men for the nonce, 
That turn round like grindlestones. B. Jonson. 
To shew regard or anger, by directing the look towards 
any thing. 
Turn, mighty monarch, turn, this way; 
Do not refuse to hear. Dry den. 
To move the body round.—Nature wrought so, that seeing 
me, she turn'd. Milton. —To move from its place.—The 
ancle-bone is apt to turn out on either side, by reason of 
relaxation of the tendons upon the least walking. Wiseman. 
—To change posture.—If one with ten thousand dice, should 
throw five thousand sises once or twice, we might say he did 
it by chance; but if, with almost an infinite number he 
should, without failing, throw the same sises, we should 
certainly conclude he did it by art, or that these dice could 
turn upon no other side. Cheyne. —To have a tendency or 
direction. 
His cares all turn upon Astyanax, 
Whom he has lodg’d within the citadel. A. Philips. 
To move the face to another quarter. 
The night seems doubled with the fear she brings. 
The morning, as mistaken, turns about, 
And all her early fires again go out. Dry den. 
To depart from the way; to deviate.—My lords, turn in, 
into your servant's house. Genesis. —To alter; to be 
changed; to be transformed.—In some springs of water if 
you put wood, it will turn into the nature of stone. Bacon. 
—To become by a change.—Cygnets from grey turn white; 
hawks from brown turn more white. Bacon. —To change 
sides.—As a man in a fever turns often, although without 
any hope of ease, so men in the extremest misery fly to the 
first appearance of relief, though never so vain. Swift .— 
To change the mind, conduct, or determination.—He will 
relent, and turn from his displeasure. Milton. —To change 
to acid. Used of milk.—Asses milk turneth not so easily as 
cows’. Bacon. —To be brought eventually.—Let their vanity 
be flattered with things that will do them good; and let their 
pride set them on work on something that may turn to their 
advantage. Locke. —To depend on, as the chief point.— 
Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of war. 
Swift. —To grow giddy. 
I’ll look no more. 
Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight 
Topple down headlong. Shakspeare. 
To have an unexpected consequence or tendency.—If we 
repent seriously, submit contentedly, and serve him faith¬ 
fully, afflictions shall turn to our advantage. Wake. —To 
return; to recoil. 
His foul esteem 
Sticks no dishonour on our front, but turns 
Foul on himself. Milton. 
To be directed to, or from any point; as, the needle turns 
to the pole. To change attention or practice.—Forthwith 
from dance to sweet repast they turn. Milton. 
To Turn away. To deviate from any course.—When 
the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he 
hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, 
he shall save his soul alive. Ezekiel. 
To Turn off. To divert one’s course. 
The peaceful banks which profound silence keep, 
The little boat securely passes by, 
But where with noise the waters creep, 
Turn off with care, for treacherous rocks are near. Norris. 
This word, through all the variety of its applications’, 
commonly preserves that idea of change which is included 
in its primary meaning, all gyration, and all deflection being 
change of place ; a few of its uses imply direction or ten¬ 
dency; but direction or tendency is always the cause and 
consequence of change of place. 
TURN, s. The act of turning ; gyration; meander ; 
winding way. 
Fear misled the youngest from his way; 
But Nisus hit the turns. Dry den. 
Winding or flexuous course.—After a turbulent and noisy 
course among the rocks, the Teverne falls into the valley, 
and after many turns and windings glides peaceably into the 
Tiber. Addison. —-A walk to and fro. 
My good and gracious lord of Canterbury: 
Come, you and I must walk a turn together. Shakspeare. 
Change; 
