Turned

ppl. a. [f. TURN v. + -ED¹.] In various senses corresponding to those of the verb, q.v.; those chiefly in use are given here.

  1.  Moved round on an axis, rotated: see TURN v. 1.

1552.  Huloet, Turned, or dryuen aboute wyth the handes as a mustarde querne is, trusatilis.

1606.  Marston, Parasit., II. D iv. Beware legge-ringes And the turnd key on thee.

  2.  Wrought in a lathe; shaped or rounded with a lathe: see TURN v. 4.

c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 507/1. Turnyd vessel, or other thynge,… toreuma.

1501.  Maldon, Essex, Crt. Rolls, Bundle 60, No. 7. 1 tabill, ii trestellis,… a turned cheyr.

1556.  in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), II. 564. Thende of the partitions to be with turned pillers.

1681.  Grew, Musæum, III. I. ii. 271. It looks like some sort of Turn’d-Work.

c. 1790.  Imison, Sch. Art, I. 221. A small turn’d handle … to screw on or off at pleasure.

1792.  Belknap, Hist. New Hampsh., III. 112. [Poplar] is used … for some kinds of turned work.

1838.  Dickens, Nich. Nick., x. Chairs, with turned legs.

  b.  Turned shells (Zool.), a name for the family Actæonidæ or Tornatellidæ of gastropods.

1891.  in Cent. Dict.

  3.  (With advs., as well, etc.) Shaped, formed, fashioned: see TURN v. 5.

a. 1637.  B. Jonson, Underwoods, xii. 68. The race Of Shakespeare’s mind and manners brightly shines In his well torned, and true filed lines.

1699.  Vanbrugh, False Friend, II. i. See, here he comes … a pretty turn’d fellow.

1710.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4689/4. A strong well turned little Mare.

1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. III. iv. In sweetly turned periods.

1874.  L. Stephen, Hours in Libr. (1892), I. iii. 123. So many exquisitely turned compliments.

  4.  Bent or twisted: see TURN v. 9.

1585.  Durham Wills (Surtees), II. 111. A eireon wayne, a turned teame.

1703.  T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 193. They call it Turn’d-lead, when the Came has pass’d through the Vice, and is thereby made with a Groove on each side to go on upon the Glass.

Mod.  The knife has a turned edge, and won’t cut.

  5.  Moved into a different posture or direction (lit. or fig.); diverted, deflected, etc.: see TURN v. 7, 13, 14, 22, etc.

c. 1586.  C’tess Pembroke, Ps. LXXVII. iv. With turned thought, A new I fell to thinck Upon the auncient tymes.

1621.  Bp. Hall, Heaven upon Earth, § 4. The galled soule … after many tossed and turned sides, complaines of … vnabated torment.

1847.  Tennyson, Princ., I. 65. He chew’d The thrice-turn’d cud of wrath.

  b.  Turned of (an age, etc.): see TURN v. 18 b.

  6.  † a. Opposite, contrary, adverse. Obs. rare^–1.

a. 1325.  MS. Rawl. B., 520. lf. 64. For partie torned [MS. Rawl. B. 820, lf. 139. Pro parte aduerssa].

  b.  Reversed so as to be upside down; inverted (see TURN v. 10); spec. in Printing, of a type placed or letter printed upside down.

1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VIII. vi. 114. The housis war lik a turnit barge.

1638–56.  Cowley, Davideis, I. lix. Numbers which still encrease more high and wide From One, the root of their turn’d Pyramide.

1771.  Luckombe, Hist. Print., 443. The Article of marking turned letters tries a Corrector’s skill.

1826.  Wellington, in Croker Papers (1884), I. xi. 330. They … lay sprawling and kicking like … turned turtles.

1877.  Sweet, Handbk. Phonetics, § 45. The narrow back unrounded vowels are indicated by the ‘turned’ letters of the corresponding wides…. (ə), being a turned (e).

  c.  Reversed or altered so as to be inside out, as a garment (see TURN v. 11 c); also of a shoe (see quot. 1882).

1483.  Cath. Angl., 397/2. A Turnyd cloth, interpola.

1552.  Huloet, Turned garmente whose wronge side is turned vpwarde, tra[n]slata uestis.

a. 1643.  Cartwright, On Dram. Poems Fletcher in Comedies, etc. (1651), 8. Old fashioned wit! which walked … In turned hose.

1766.  W. Gordon, Gen. Counting-ho., 317. 12 doz. turned pumps for men [cf. turn-shoe, TURN-].

1819.  Metropolis, I. 120. A turned coat,… and a wig turned inside out, were spoken of.

1837.  Thackeray, Ravenswing, iv. Professionals with turned frocks.

1882.  Worc. Exhib. Catal., iii. 30. Turned work [in shoemaking] (so called from being made inside out and afterwards turned).

  7.  That has turned sour or become tainted, as milk; † curdled (obs.): see TURN v. 46.

1548.  Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke vi. 72 b. The olde soure turned wine of Moses lawe.

1556.  Withals, Dict. (1568), 49 b/1. Turned milke or sower, oxia gala.

1665.  Needham, Med. Medicinæ, 408. Curded or Turnd Milk.

1903.  N. Munno, in Blackw. Mag., 237/1. Curdling like turned cream.

  8.  With adverbs, as turned-back, -down, -in, -out, -up: see TURN v. VIII.

1861.  Eng. Wom. Dom. Mag., III. 263. A … crêpe sleeve, with a *turned-back cuff in Brussels lace.

1889.  Henty, With Lee in Virginia (1890), 17. There was no mistaking the expression of its [the horse’s] turned-back eye.

1840.  Thackeray, Shabby-genteel Story, ii. A dirty *turned-down shirt-collar.

1900.  Law Rep., App. Cas. 404. At the *turned-in end of the hook.

1833.  T. Hook, Widow & Marquess, xii. The best *turned-out equipage that rattled through its streets.

1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., V. (1626), 92. As he did roule His *turn’d-vp eyes.

1686.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2131/4. A little … white Bitch, with a turned-up Nose.

1836.  Penny Cycl., VI. 444/1. The turned-up edges of the mantle.

1904.  Budge, 3rd & 4th Egypt. Rooms Brit. Mus., 226. A pair of gazelle skin sandals, with turned up toes.