Turn the adamantine spindle round. Milton.

The monarch turns him to his royal guest. Pope.

Thrice I deluded her, and turned to sport
Her importunity. Milton.

My thoughts are turned on peace. Addison.

Therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David. 1 Chron. x. 14.

God will make these evils the occasion of a greater good, by turning them to advantage in this world. Tillotson.

When the passage is open, land will be turned most to cattle; when shut, to sheep. Sir W. Temple.

The Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee. Deut. xxx. 3.

And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. 2 Sam. xv. 31.

Impatience turns an ague into a fever. Jer. Taylor.

I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned. Shak.

His limbs how turned, how broad his shoulders spread ! Pope.

He was perfectly well turned for trade. Addison.

Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown. Pope.

(b)

The gate . . . on golden hinges turning. Milton.

Conditions of peace certainly turn upon events of war. Swift.

If we repent seriously, submit contentedly, and serve him faithfully, afflictions shall turn to our advantage. Wake.

Turn from thy fierce wrath. Ex. xxxii. 12.

Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways. Ezek. xxxiii. 11.

The understanding turns inward on itself, and reflects on its own operations. Locke.

I hope you have no intent to turn husband. Shak.

Cygnets from gray turn white. Bacon.

(b)

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.

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.

And all its [the river's] thousand turns disclose.
Some fresher beauty varying round. Byron.

Come, you and I must walk a turn together. Shak.

I will take a turn in your garden. Dryden.

His turn will come to laugh at you again. Denham.

Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. Collier.

Had I not done a friendes turn to thee? Chaucer.

thanks are half lost when good turns are delayed. Fairfax.

I have enough to serve mine own turn. Shak.

The turn of both his expressions and thoughts is unharmonious. Dryden.

The Roman poets, in their description of a beautiful man, often mention the turn of his neck and arms. Addison.

By turns. (a) One after another; alternately; in succession. (b) At intervals. "[They] feel by turns the bitter change." Milton. -- In turn, in due order of succession. -- To a turn, exactly; perfectly; as, done to a turn; -- a phrase alluding to the practice of cooking on a revolving spit. -- To take turns, to alternate; to succeed one another in due order. -- Turn and turn about, by equal alternating periods of service or duty; by turns. -- Turn bench, a simple portable lathe, used on a bench by clock makers and watchmakers. -- Turn buckle. See Turnbuckle, in Vocabulary. -- Turn cap, a sort of chimney cap which turns round with the wind so as to present its opening to the leeward. G. Francis. -- Turn of life (Med.), change of life. See under Change. -- Turn screw, a screw driver.

The ranges are not high or steep, and one can turn a kopje instead of cutting or tunneling through it. James Bryce.

To turn turtle, to capsize bottom upward; -- said of a vessel. [Naut. slang] -- To turn under (Agric.), to put, as soil, manure, etc., underneath from the surface by plowing, digging, or the like.