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swirling, ppl. a.|ˈswɜːlɪŋ|
[f. swirl v. + -ing2.]
That swirls.
1. Characterized by twists or convolutions; curling; twisted.
1807Tannahill Poet. Wks. (1846) 21 Auld, swirlon, slaethorn, camsheugh, crooked Wight. 1831Sutherland Farm Rep. 83 in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb. III, Covered with short, white, flat-growing, swirling hair. 1883G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Apr. 685/1 The rapid increase of swirling ornament as a feature of domestic..architecture.
2. Moving in eddies or whirlpools, or with a circular motion or course; whirling.
1849Kingsley Misc., N. Devon (1859) II. 246 A deep dark pool of swirling orange-brown. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. II. iv. §10. 63 The great mouldering wall..worn by the rain and swirling winds into yet unseemlier shape. 1887T. A. Trollope What I remember II. ii. 32 The white gulls..started from their roosting-places..or returned to them from their swirling flights. 1898H. Day K. Spruce xx. 242 Blinking the big flakes out of his eyes as he breasted the swirling storm. |