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turn 1. Music a melodic ornament that makes a turn around a note, beginning with the note above, in a variety of sequences 2. Theatre chiefly Brit a short theatrical act, esp in music hall, cabaret, etc. turn [′tərn] (electricity) One complete loop of wire. (mathematics)
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| Possessed myself of a strong stomach and a hard head, inured to hardship, cruelty, and brutality, nevertheless I found, as I came to manhood, that I unconsciously protected myself from the hurt of the trained-animal turn by getting up and leaving the theatre whenever such turns came on the stage. When her husband next went away for one day, she told on slave to turn under the bird's cage a hand-mill; another to throw water down from above the cage, and a third to take a mirror and turn it in front of its eyes, from left to right by the light of a candle. They finished supper, and while Mattie cleared the table Ethan went to look at the cows and then took a last turn about the house. |
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