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Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.

To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion. Ray.

Same as Dextrorotatory.

Of or pertaining to mercury; containing, or impregnated with, mercury. [R.]

of polarization towards the left, as levulose, levotartaric acid, etc. [Written also lævogyrate.]

To circumgyrate. [Obs.]

See Dextrogyrate.

To turn round; to gyrate. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Drayton.

f the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation. Gamgee.

Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left handed quartz crystals, etc. [Written also lævorotatory.]

Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.

To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle. "The beetle wheels her droning flight." Gray. Now heaven, in all her glory, shone, and rolled Her motions, as the great first mover's hand First wheeled their course. Milton.

ned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate. "The whirling year vainly my dizzy eyes pursue." J. H. Newman. The wooden engine flies and whirls about. Dryden.