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Change; vicissitude; alteration. 
This turn hath made amends! thou hast fulfilled 
Thy words, Creator bounteous. Milton. 
Successive course.—The king, with great nobleness and 
bounty, which virtues had their turns in his nature, restored 
Edward Stafford. Bacon. —Manner of proceeding; change 
from the original intention or first appearance.—The Athe¬ 
nians were offered liberty, but the wise turn they thought 
to give the matter, was a sacrifice of the author. Swift .— 
Chance; hap.—Every one has a fair turn to be as great as 
he pleases. Collier. —Occasion; incidental opportunity.— 
An old dog, falling from his speed, was loaden at every turn 
with blows and reproaches. L'Estrange. —Time at which, 
by successive vicissitudes, any thing is to be had or done.— 
Myself would be glad to take some breath, and desire 
that some of you would take your turn to speak. Bacon. 
—Actions of kindness or malice. 
Lend this virgin aid. 
Thanks are half lost when good turns are delay’d. Fairfax. 
Reigning inclination.—This is not to be accomplished 
but by introducing religion to be the turn and fashion of 
the age. Swift. —A step off the ladder at the gallows. 
They, by their skill in palmistry, 
Will quickly read his destiny ; 
And make him glad to read his lesson, 
Or takea turn for it at the sggjion. Butler. 
Convenience; use ; purpose; exigence. 
His going I could frame to serve my turn ; 
Save him from danger, do him love and honour. 
Shakspeare. 
The form ; cast; shape; manner.—Our young men take 
up some cry’d up English poet, without knowing wherein 
his thoughts are improper to his subject, or his expression 
unworthy of his thoughts, or the turn of both is unharmo- 
nious. Dryden. —The manner of adjusting the words of a 
sentence,—The turn of words, in which Ovid excels all 
poets, are sometimes a fault or sometimes a beauty, as they 
are used properly or improperly. Dry den. —New position 
of things; as, something troublesome happens at every turn. 
—The court of the sheriff; of old called also the sheriff's 
moot. Minsheu.—See Tourn. 
By Turns. One after another ; alternately. 
They feel by turns the bitter change 
Of fierce extremes; extremes by change more fierce. Milton. 
TURN A, a town of European Turkey, in Walachia, on 
the east side of the Aluta, at its junction with the Danube, 
opposite to Nicopoli. 
TURN-AGAIN, a low, flat, and swampy island in Torres 
strait, about three miles in length, by half that space in 
breadth. Lat. 9. 34. S. long. 140. 55. E. 
TURN-AGAIN RIVER, a branch of Cook’s inlet, which 
runs eastward from Point Possession. It is about three to 
four leagues broad between its outer points of entrance, 
Point Possession and Point Campbell; but the part of it 
which is navigable is only about a league and a half wide, 
a shallow flat extending for several miles from the shore on 
both sides, and circumscribing the navigable channel. It 
terminates, according to the information obtained by Van¬ 
couver, in lat. 60. 54. N. long. 211. 30. E. in a circular 
manner, surrounded by high and steep barren mountains, 
covered with perpetual snow. The tide in this situation rose 
nearly 30 feet perpendicularly, so that at low water the inlet 
at this point must be nearly dry. Another circumstance 
which adds to the dangerous navigation of this inlet, is the 
immense number of conical rocks, detached from each other 
on banks of sand and small stones, which extend a league 
and upwards from several parls of its shores. 
TURN-AGAIN, Cape, a cape on the east coast of New 
Zealand, discovered by Captain Cook in 1769. Lat, 40. 34. 
S. long. 182. 55. W. 
TURNAS, a small river of Brazil, in the province of San 
Vicente, which running north-north-west, unites with the 
river Yapo, and then enters the Paranapane. 
T U R 
TURNASTON, a parish of England, in Herefordshire; 
12 miles west-by-south of Hereford. 
TURNAU, a small town in the north of Bohemia; 14 
miles north-east of Jung-Bunzlau, and 44 north-north-east 
of Prague. Population 2800. 
TURNAVO, a small town of European Turkey, in the 
north of Greece, or rather of Thessaly. It is situated in the 
sangiacat of Tricala, between the left bank of the Pereus and 
Mount Olympus; 10 miles north of Larissa. It is the see of 
a Greek bishop, and contains 3000 inhabitants, who culti¬ 
vate very large quantities of cotton in the environs. 
TU'RNBENCH, s. A term of turners.—Small work in 
metal is turned in an iron lathe called a turnbcnch, which 
they screw in a vice, and having fitted their work upon a 
small iron axle, with a drill barrel, fitted upon a square shank 
at the end of the axis, next the left hand, they with a drill- 
bow, and drill-string, carry it about. Moxon. 
TU'RNCOAT, s. One who forsakes his party or prin¬ 
ciples ; a renegade.—Courtesy itself must turn to disdain, if 
you come in her presence—Then is courtesy a turncoat. 
Shakspeare. 
TURND1TCH, a hamlet of England, in Derbyshire; 5 
miles south-by-east of Wirksworth. 
TURNEFF ISLANDS, a cluster of islands divided by 
creeks and lagoons, in the bay of Honduras. It is about 20 
miles long and 10 broad, and is often taken by strangers for 
the mainland, to which its resemblance is great. It abounds 
in cocoa-nut trees, and is much frequented by fishermen. 
Lat. 17. 16. N. long. 88. 20. W. 
TURNER, a post township of the United States, in Ox¬ 
ford county, Maine, on the Androscoggin. Population 
1129; 18 miles east-north-east of Paris, and 155 north-north- 
east of Boston. 
TURNER, Point, a low narrow strip of land on the 
west coast of North America, forming the south-east point of 
the island that protects Port Mulgrave from the ocean. Lat. 
59. 32. N. long. 220. 37. E 
TURNER’S PIDDLE, or Puddle, a parish of England, 
in Dorsetshire, situated on the river Piddle; 7| miles north¬ 
west of Wareham. 
TU'RNER, s. One whose trade is to turn a lathe. 
Nor box, nor limes, without their use are made, 
Smooth-grain’d and proper for the turner's trade. Milton . 
TURNER A [so named by Plumier, in memory of William 
Turner, M. D., Prebendary of York, Canon of Windsor, and 
Dean of Wells], in Botany, a genus of the class pentandria, 
order trigynia, natural order of columnifene, portulacese 
(Juss.) —Generic Character. Calyx: perianth one-leafed, 
funnel-form, deciduous ; tube oblong, erect, cylindric-angu- 
lar; border erect, five-parted; segments lanceolate, length 
of the tube. Corolla: petals five, obcordate, acuminate, 
flat, from upright spreading; claws narrow, inserted into the 
tube of the calyx. Stamina: filaments five, awl-shaped, 
shorter than the corolla, inserted into the tube of the calyx. 
Anthers acuminate, erect. Pistil: germ conical. Styles 
three, filiform, length cf the stamens. Stigmas capillaceous- 
multifid. Pericarp : capsule ovate, one-celled, three-valved. 
Receptacles annexed to the valves longitudinally, linear. 
Seeds numerous, oblong, obtuse. Essential Character .— 
Calyx five-cleft, funnel-form; exterior two-leaved. Petioles 
five, inserted into the calyx. Stigmas multifid. Capsule 
one-celled, three-valved. 
1. Turnera ulmifolia, or elm-leaved turnera.—Flowers 
sessile, petiolary; leaves biglandular at the base. Stem 
shrubby, eight or ten feet high, sending out branches on 
every side the whole length.—Found in Martinico ; it is a 
native of other parts of the West Indies. Narrow-leaved 
turnera, a variety of ulmifolia, has a smaller corolla, with 
pointed petals; the bractes have no glands; the leaves are 
more obtuse; the anthers orange not yellow. 
2. Turnera pumilea.—Flowers sessile, petiolary; leaves 
landular. Root annual, branching, thready.—Native of 
Jamaica, in dry sandy fields. 
3. Turnera rupestris,—Peduncles axillary, two-bristled; 
leaves 
