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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 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.

; 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.

consisting of a slat of wood tied to the end of a thong or string, with which the slat is whirled so as to cause an intermittent roaring noise. It is used as a toy, and among some races in certain religious rites.

A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.

The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round. A certain turbulent and irregular circumgyration. Holland.

turning, rolling, or whirling round.