(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 (?), 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.
4. A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a
short walk; a stroll.
Come, you and I must walk a turn together.
Shak.