Whirl

Definition of Whirl

v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Whirled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Whirling.]
	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.
v. i.	1.	To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate. The wooden engine flies and whirls about. - Dryden.
	2.	To move hastily or swiftly. But whirled away to shun his hateful sight. - Dryden.
n.	1.
	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. 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.	(Bot. & Zool.) A whorl. See Whorl.

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