These are the meanings of the letters TERNURA when you unscramble them.
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Errant (a.)
Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.
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Errant (a.)
Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant.
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Errant (a.)
Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.
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Errant (n.)
One who wanders about.
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Nature (n.)
Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artifical, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
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Nature (n.)
Constitution or quality of mind or character.
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Nature (n.)
Hence: Kind, sort; character; quality.
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Nature (n.)
Natural affection or reverence.
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Nature (n.)
Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
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Nature (n.)
The established or regular course of things; usual order of events; connection of cause and effect.
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Nature (n.)
The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe.
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Nature (n.)
The personified sum and order of causes and effects; the powers which produce existing phenomena, whether in the total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence.
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Nature (n.)
The sum of qualities and attributes which make a person or thing what it is, as distinct from others; native character; inherent or essential qualities or attributes; peculiar constitution or quality of being.
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Nature (v. t.)
To endow with natural qualities.
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Ranter (n.)
A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
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Ranter (n.)
One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.
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Ranter (n.)
One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
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Return (n.)
A day in bank. See Return day, below.
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Return (n.)
A payment; a remittance; a requital.
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Return (n.)
An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
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Return (n.)
An answer; as, a return to one's question.
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Return (n.)
An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.
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Return (n.)
That which is returned.
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Return (n.)
The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.
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Return (n.)
The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis.
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Return (n.)
The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document.
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Return (n.)
The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.
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Return (n.)
The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.
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Return (n.)
The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.
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Return (n.)
The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
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Return (n.)
The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.
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Return (v. i.)
To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.
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Return (v. i.)
To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
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Return (v. i.)
To revert; to pass back into possession.
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Return (v. i.)
To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
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Return (v. i.)
To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
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Return (v. t.)
Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.
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Return (v. t.)
To bat (the ball) back over the net.
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Return (v. t.)
To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.
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Return (v. t.)
To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.
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Return (v. t.)
To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.
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Return (v. t.)
To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
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Return (v. t.)
To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
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Return (v. t.)
To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.
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Return (v. t.)
To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.
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Return (v. t.)
To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
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Return (v. t.)
To report, or bring back and make known.
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Return (v. t.)
To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
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Turner (n.)
A person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises.
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Turner (n.)
A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.
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Turner (n.)
One who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe.