Chapter C: B. tywarchen, a covering, a stratum, Owen; clotty, Richards

TURDION, _s._ A species of galliard or gay dance; Fr. _tordion_.

_Compl. S._

TURKAS, TURKES, TURKESSE, _s._ Pincers, nippers, S.

_Dunbar._

Arm. _turcques_, _turkes_, id.

TURN, _s._ _To do the turn_.

1. To perform any piece of work or business, S.

_Reg. Maj._

2. To be sufficient for any purpose; to give satisfaction, S.

_Ross._

TURNER, _s._ A copper coin, formerly current in S., in value two pennies Scots money, and equivalent to a _Bodle_.

_Spalding._

Fr. _tournois_, the _tenth_ part of a penny Sterling.

TURNGREYS, _s._ A winding stair.

_Wallace._

Fr. _tourn-er_, to turn, and _gre_, a step.

TURN-TAIL, _s._ A fugitive.

_Spalding._

TURNE-PYK, TURNEPECK, TURNPIKE, _s._

1. The winding stair of a castle.

_Wyntown._

2. Any stair of a spiral form, built without a house, S.

_Cant._

Teut. _torn_, a tower; _baecke_, a place for observation.

_To_ TURS, TURSS, _v. a._

1. To pack up in a bale or bundle, S.

2. To carry off hastily.

_Wallace._

3. To take one's self off quickly.

_Doug._

4. _To turss furth_, to bring out what has been kept in store.

_Wallace._

~Tursable~, _adj._ What may be carried away.

_Spalding._

TURTOUR, TURTURE, _s._ The turtle-dove.

Lat. _turtur_.

_King's Quair._

TUSCHÉ, _s._ A girdle.

V. ~Tische~.

_To_ TUSH, _v. n._ To express displeasure.

_Rutherford._

E. _tush_, Su. G. _tyst_, silens; _tyst-a_, silere.

TUSK, _s._ The _torsk_ of Pennant, S.

Isl. _thosk-r_, asellus.

_Martin._

TUSKER, _s._ An instrument made of iron, with a wooden handle, for casting peats, Orkn.

Perhaps, q. _twaeskaer_, Sw. _twae_, two, and _skaer-a_, to cut.

TUSSOCK (_of wheat_), _s._ A tuft of wheat in a corn-field, generally owing to the vegetating of the nest or granary of a field-mouse, Loth.