Emily Dickinson Lexicon

turn (-s), n. [see turn, v.]

1. Detour; digression; roundabout way; winding path; meandering course; bend in the road; [fig.] disappointment; setback; letdown; reversal.
2. Retreat; [fig.] loss; death.
3. Chance; lot; appointed time.
4. Change of direction.
5. Fate; luck; opportunity.
6. A step off the ladder at the gallows.
7. [Fig.] form, cast, manner.
8. Manner of arranging words in a sentence.
9. One round of a rope or cord.
10. In mining a pit in some part of a drift.
11. In law the sherif's turn is a court of record, held by sherif twice a year in every hundred within his county [England.]

turn (-ed, -ing, -s), v. [OE < L.]

1. Rotate; revolve; move round; have a circular motion.
2. Return; go back to.
3. Become; change into; transform as.
4. Avert; revert; deflect; draw back.
5. Come back; be delivered; be able to move towards.
6. Evict; dismiss; push away; forcibly remove.
7. Agonize; writhe; struggle; twist in pain; wrestle in the mind.
8. Spin; whirl; move like a wheel; cause to move in a circle; [fig.] present; introduce; exhibit; show off.
9. Fold over; mark by creasing.
10. Refer; remind; recollect; prompt to remember; change the opinion of.
11. Move; shift; [fig.] view; gaze on; look in a mirror at.
12. Miss; long for; pine after; desire to go back to.
13. Go back to; move back towards; direct steps again to.
14. Change; progress; revolve; move forward in time.
15. Look; gaze; focus; direct attention; shift awareness.
16. Reply; answer; respond.
17. Reverse; go back; move the other direction.
18. Phrase. “Turn away”: dismiss; reject; deny access; forbid entrance.
19. Phrase. “Turn out”: avoid; stay away.

turning, verbal n. [see turn, v.]

Return; [fig.] resurrection; restoration; revival; be alive again.

turnpike, n. [Fr.; see turn, v. and pick, v.]

1. Cross-bar barrier; frame of two bars crossing each other at right angles, and turning on a post or pin, to hinder passage till a toll is paid for keeping the road in repair.
2. Toll road.

turret, adj. [ME]

turtle, n. [OE turtla.]

Any species of marine tortoise.

Tuscarora, proper n. [Iroquis, 'hemp-gatherer'.]

American Indian; member of a Native American tribe in North Carolina.

twain, n. [OE.]

1. Two; a dyad; a pair; a couple; [fig.] duet; rhymed couplet.
2. Bisection; two halves; two separate pieces.

t'was (twas), v. [= “it was”; see it, pron., and was, v.]

twas'nt, v. [= “it wasn't” see it, pron., and was'nt, v.]