| whirl | 1. To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve. "He whirls his sword around without delay." (Dryden) 2. To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry. "See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood." (Milton) "The passionate heart of the poet is whirl'd into folly." (Tennyson) Origin: OE. Whirlen, probably from the Scand.; cf. Icel. & Sw. Hvirfla, Dan. Hvirvle; akin to D. Wervelen, G. Wirbeln, freq. Of the verb seen in Icel. Hverfa to turn. See Wharf, and cf. Warble, Whorl. 1. To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate. "The whirling year vainly my dizzy eyes pursue." "The wooden engine flies and whirls about." (Dryden) 2. To move hastily or swiftly. "But whirled away to shun his hateful sight." (Dryden) 1. A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel. "In no breathless whirl." "The rapid . . . Whirl of things here below interrupt not the inviolable rest and calmness of the noble beings above." (South) 2. Anything that moves with a whirling motion. "He saw Falmouth under gray, iron skies, and whirls of March dust." (Carlyle) 3. A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached. 4. <botany> A whorl. See Whorl. Origin: Cf. Dan. Hvirvel, Sw. Hvirfvel, Icel. Hvirfill the crown of the head, G. Wirbel whirl, crown of the head, D. Wervel. See Whirl. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| whirlbone | <anatomy> The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whirligig | 1. A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top. 2. Anything which whirls around, or in which persons or things are whirled about, as a frame with seats or wooden horses. "With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head." (G. W. Cable) 3. A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity. 4. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to Gyrinus and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark coloured with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with great celerity in a gyrating, or circular, manner, but they are also able to dive and swim rapidly. The larva is aquatic. Synonym: weaver, whirlwig, and whirlwig beetle. Origin: Whirl + gig. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whirling | From Whirl, Whirling table. <physics> An apparatus provided with one or more revolving disks, with weights, pulleys, and other attachments, for illustrating the phenomena and laws of centrifugal force, and the like. A potter's wheel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whirlpool | 1. An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like. 2. A sea monster of the whale kind. "The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are; among which the whales and whirlpools, called "balaenae," take up in length as much as four . . . Arpents of land." (Holland) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whirlwig | <zoology> A whirligig. Origin: Cf. Earwig. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whirlwind | 1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterised by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. "The swift dark whirlwind that uproots the woods. And drowns the villages." (Bryant) Some meteorologists apply the word whirlwind to the larger rotary storm also, such as cyclones. 2. A body of objects sweeping violently onward. "The whirlwind of hounds and hunters." Origin: Cf. Icel. Hvirfilvindr, Sw. Hvirfvelvind, Dan. Hvirvelvind, G. Wirbelwind. See Whirl, and Wind. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whirling d. |
a highly fatal protozoal disease of young salmonid fish caused by Myxosoma cerebralis, characterized chiefly by cartilaginous damage in the axial skeleton and granuloma formation involving the auditory-equilibrium apparatus of the fish, causing it to swim rapidly in a circular pattern. Called also twist d.
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| whirlpool b. |
a variously sized tank in which the body or an extremity can be submerged as the heated water is mechanically agitated.
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| whirl | the act of rotating rapidly |
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| whirl | a usually brief attempt |
| whirl | confused movement |
| whirl | the shape of something rotating rapidly |
| whirl | revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis |
| whirl | flow in a circular current, of liquids |
| whirl | fly around, as of paper on the sidewalk, or clothes in a dryer, or rising smoke in the wind |
| whirl | cause to spin |
| whirl | turn in a twisting or spinning motion |
| whirl | fly around, as of paper on the sidewalk, or clothes in a dryer, or rising smoke in the wind |
| whirl | thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1941 |
| whirl | a revolving mechanism |
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