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Designating a cumbersome style of plow used in England, esp. in Kent.

designating a kind of hillside plow.

One of the subdivisions into which the Upper Cretaceous formation of Europe is divided.

A semifluid or fluid oleoresin, primarily the exudation of the terebinth, or turpentine, tree (Pistacia Terebinthus), a native of the Mediterranean region. It is also obtained from many coniferous trees, especially species of pine, larch, and fir.

The root of Ipom/a Turpethum, a plant of Ceylon, Malabar, and Australia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative; -- sometimes called vegetable turpeth.

A heavy yellow powder, Hg3O2SO4, which consists of a basic mercuric sulphate; -- called also turpeth mineral.

A land tortoise.

Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity.

A hydrous phosphate of alumina containing a little copper; calaite. It has a blue, or bluish green, color, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface.

Alt. of Turquois

Having a fine light blue color, like that of choice mineral turquoise.

A certain tool used by coopers.

A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.

A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.

A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.

The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.

Furnished with a turret or turrets; specifically (Zool.), having the whorls somewhat flattened on the upper side and often ornamented by spines or tubercles; -- said of certain spiral shells.

Formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp.

A turban.

Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower.