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To whirl round, or revolve, with a whizzing noise; to fly or more quickly with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz. The partridge bursts away on whirring wings. Beattie.

To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve. He whirls his sword around without delay. Dryden.

A whirling blast or wind. A whirl-blast from behind the hill. Wordsworth.

Something that whirls or turns about in a rapid manner; a whirligig.

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.

The huckle bone. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, whirls.

ar or chariot. [Obs.] Of old time coaches were not known in this island, but chariots, or whirlicotes. Stow.

A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top. Johnson.

a. & n. from Whirl, v. t. Whirling table. (a) (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. (b) A potter's wheel.

A whirlpool. [Obs.] "Raging whirlpits." Sandys.

Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are; among which the whales and whirlpools, called "balænæ," take up in length as much as four . . . arpents of land. Holland.

A whirligig.

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.

To whir. [Obs.]

A perforated steel die through which wires or tubes are drawn to form them.

To rise upward in a whirl; to raise upward with a whirling motion.

n anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.

To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.

; as, to buffet the billows. The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores. Broome. You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world. W. Black.