Word Meanings - TURNINGNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation.

• Turn-sick
  Giddy.
• Turnsole
  A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun.
• Turnhalle
  A building used as a school of gymnastics.
• Turnspit
  One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office.
• Instability
  The quality or condition of being unstable; want of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building.
• Turnicimorphae
  A division of birds including Turnix and allied genera, resembling quails in appearance but differing from them anatomically.
• Turnstile
  A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1.
• Turningness
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation.
• Turnstone
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of m
• Tergiversation
  The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.
• Turntable
  A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.
• Turnip-shell
  Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.
• Turning
  of Turn
• Turnverein
  A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.

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