inturned, ppl. a.
(ˈɪnˌtɜːnd)
[in adv. 11 b.]
Turned inward.
| 1858 J. Brown Horæ Subs. (1863) 122 His broad, simple, childlike, in-turned feet. a 1900 Mod. Newsp., Those in-turned toes. 1906 R. H. Benson Queen's Tragedy iii. iv. 367 She..touched the palms of her hands with her in-turned fingers. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 6 The fig-fruit: Involved, Inturned, The flowering all inward and womb-fibrilled. 1967 Antiquaries Jrnl. XLVII. 256 The ditch as now defined with its right-angle turn near the western corner of the Arbour and its possible inturned entrance is best interpreted as the defence or boundary work of a Belgic oppidum. |