etc.; to turn out (= produce) so much in a week, month, etc.; to turn out (= show) one's hand: spec. at cards; to turn out (or be turned out) = to dress (or be clothed by one's tailor) with care: whence well turned out = well-groomed (q.v.): see Turn-out; to turn over (= transfer) a business; to turn over (= sell) goods; to be turned over (thieves') = (1) to be stopped by the police and searched, (2) to be remanded, and (3) to be acquitted for lack of evidence; to turn one's back on (see Back); to turn cat in the pan (see Cat); to turn the cold shoulder (see Cold Shoulder); to turn the paunch = to vomit; to turn the stomach = to cause nausea: see subs. 7; to turn the tables (see Table); to turn an honest penny (see Penny); to turn rusty (see Rusty); to turn to the right-about = to dismiss summarily: see Right; to turn turtle (nautical) = to capsize: of a boat or vessel; to turn up one's nose = to make a gesture of contempt, to show disgust; to turn up one's eyes = to make a gesture of (1) surprise, and (2) of mock sanctity; to turn upon = (1) to retort, and (2) to show anger, resentment, or fight, to pay back as good as sent; to turn up one's toes = to die: see Toe; to turn in
to go to bed; to turn out
(1) to rise, to get out of bed, (2) to come abroad, (3) to come out on strike (workmen's), and (4) to result, end, prove; to turn to = to set to work; to turn Turk (see Turk); to turn up = (1) to happen, to occur, (2) to arrest (thieves'), (3) to acquit (thieves'); to be turned over: see to turn up, supra; not to turn a hair = to take things quietly; to turn a cartwheel: see Cartwheel; to take a turn = to join in: see subs. 8; to turn it (or the game) up = to desist, quit, abscond, change one's tactics; to turn up a trump = to meet with good fortune, to improve one's chances (Grose); to a turn = to a nicety: as a roasted joint cooked to a 'turn' of the spit; turned-round = at a loss, puzzled: spec. of that momentary mental ignorance of one's exact whereabouts which sometimes occurs in a place that is normally perfectly well known; turn and turn about = in regular succession, alternate duty, one resting while the other works.
1380. Wyclif, Bible, Luke xv. 8. Turn the house upsodown [Auth. Ver., Sweep the house and seek diligently].
1596. Shakspeare, Merry Wives, i. 3. 4. I must turn away some of my followers. Ibid. (1598), 1 Henry IV., 1. 11. This house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died.
1605. Heywood, If You Know not Me [Works (1874), i. 257]. Bones a me, Ile turn another leafe.
1620. Fletcher, Philaster, ii. 1. Let me be corrected . . . Rather than turn me off.
1628. Earle, Micro-cosm., 'A Shee Precise Hypocrite.' Her devotion at the Church is much in the turning up of her eye.
1640. Howell, Letters, i. 5. 13. Turn him over to me again when I come back.
1689. Selden, Table Talk, 63. The Master of the House may turn away all his servants, and take whom he please.
1695. Dryden, Aurengzebe, iv. 1. 'Tis well the debt in payment does demand, You turn me over to another hand.
