Word Meanings - SWIRL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy. "The river swirled along." C. Kingsley.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• WHIRLBONE
  The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth.
• WHIRLWIND
  1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized 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
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• ALONGSIDE
  Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
• WHIRLBAT
  Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers. The whirlbat and the rapid race shall be Reserved for Cæsar. Dryden.
• RIVER
  One who rives or splits.
• RIVERLING
  A rivulet. Sylvester.
• RIVERY
  Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton.
• RIVERET
  A rivulet. Drayton.
• WHIRLIGIG
  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 colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with
• WHIRL-BLAST
  A whirling blast or wind. A whirl-blast from behind the hill. Wordsworth.
• RIVERSIDE
  The side or bank of a river.
• 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
• WHIRLPIT
  A whirlpool. "Raging whirlpits." Sandys.
• SWIRL
  A whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl. "The silent swirl of bats." Mrs. Browning.
• RIVERED
  Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• WHIRLING
  a. & n. from Whirl, v. t. Whirling table. 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.
• CAUSER
  One who or that which causes.
• KALONG
  A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• WHIRL
  hvirvle; akin to D. wervelen, G. wirbeln, freq. of the verb seen in 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,
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• DRIVER
  A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• CONTRIVER
  One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
• UPWHIRL
  To rise upward in a whirl; to raise upward with a whirling motion.
• PERIVERTEBRAL
  Surrounding the vertebræ.