in a moral sense, implies a repentance for a temper and conduct unworthy our nature, and unbecoming our obligations to its Author, and a resolution to act a wiser and a better part for the future.

in war, a military motion whereby the front of a battalion is turned where the flank was, in case the battalion is attacked in the flank.

Conversion of equations, in algebra. See Vol. I. p. 104.