whirlingn.

/ˈhwəːlɪŋ/

Etymology: < whirl v. + -ing suffix¹.

The action of whirl v.

1. A turning (swiftly) round; (rapid) rotation, revolution, or circling movement: spec. of air or water, as in a whirlwind or eddy; also of persons in a dance, etc.spec. in Mechanics (quot. 1895): see whirl v. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] > whirling

whirling1423

vertigo1851

whirl-about1857

burling1874

1423 Kingis Quair clxv Sum were slungin, Be quhirlyng of the quhele, vnto the ground.

?c1425 (c1390) G. Chaucer Fortune 11 So mochel hath yit thy whirlynge vp and down I-tawht me.

1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. hv Yf that there be a manere whyrlynge of water.

1582 Queen Marguerite of Navarre's Godlie Medit. (new ed.) in T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones ii. 3 This the same vnknowne gift or whurling in my hart, doth bring mee a new desire.

1616 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. v. 138 A base horse-keeper..whom if's Master turne about, I' th' moment of the Whirling he goes out.

1633 T. James Strange Voy. 9 We came amongst the most strangest whirlings of the sea.

1636 J. Trussell in Ann. Dubrensia sig. B2 The countrie Wakes, and whirlings have appeer'd..like forraine pastimes.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ix. 170 The Sholes probably caused some whirling about of the Tide.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 89 The rapid, and as he thought perilous, whirling of the..vehicle.

1835 T. Hood United Family ix We none of us that whirling [sc. the waltz] love, Which both our parents disapprove.

1838 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1868) I. 187 Where the whirlings of the stream had left the marks of its eddies in the solid marble.

1895 Philos. Trans. 1894 (Royal Soc.) A. 185 i. 279 The Whirling and Vibration of Shafts.

2. Giddiness, vertigo.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [noun]

dizzinessc900

swimeOE

swinglingc1000

turningc1230

turngiddya1382

giddiness1398

turngiddiness1398

vertiginyc1400

turn-sick?c1450

swindling1527

vertigo1528

swimming1530

swindle1559

turnsickness1559

duseling1561

whirling1561

turn-sick giddiness1577

megrim1595

vertiginousness1599

whimsya1627

tiegoa1640

lightheadedness1645

swimmering1650

swim1817

swirling1825

swimminess1894

1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 42 The same driueth away..the whirling in the head.

1892 G. Meredith Empty Purse in Poems 107 A whirling seized thy head.

3. Hurling, flinging.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [noun]

warpinga1150

throwinga1325

casting1557

whirling1579

jaculation1608

tossing1711

1579 R. Rice Inuect. Vices B iij The whorlyng of the Pottes about the house, the Cardes into the fire.

4. Misused for hurling n. 2a.

ΚΠ

a1721 M. Prior Ess. Opinion in Wks. (1907) II. 201 Bodmin or Truro shal break more Bones at a Whirling in Cornwal than the ablest Surgeon in London shal be able to set.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

whirling speed n.

ΚΠ

1895 Philos. Trans. 1894 (Royal Soc.) A. 185 283 The whirling speed was taken to be at the commencement of whirl, that is to say, the lowest speed at which the shaft definitely whirled.

C2.

whirling disease n. a disease of trout caused by the parasitic sporozoan Myxosoma cerebralis, which affects the balance of the fish it attacks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of fish > [noun]

fungus1880

salmon disease1880

furunculosis1912

white spot1928

columnaris1945

whirling disease1961

UDN1968

1961 J. I. Lengy et al. tr. A. V. Uspenskaya in G. P. Petrusheveski Parasites & Dis. Fish 47 One of the most dangerous of the known parasitic diseases is the so-called ‘whirling disease’.

1962 Spec. Sci. Rep. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service No. 427. 2/2 Whirling disease appeared in brook trout at the Benner Spring Fish Research Station..in 1956.

1982 Times 12 Feb. 4/5 Whirling disease..is a parasite which gets into the skull of trout fry, causing a fish to lose its balance so that it swims round and round until it eventually dies.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

whirlingadj.

Etymology: < whirl v. + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwhirling.

a. That whirls, in various senses of the verb; turning (rapidly) round, rotating, revolving, circling (swiftly); eddying; moving impetuously, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > whirling

whirling1382

whirligigging1598

burling1874

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving with impetuous speed or headlong

ranka1250

whirling1382

hurlingc1400

whithering1513

headling?1518

vehement1528

heady1562

headlongc1565

precipitant1649

precipitate1654

torrent1667

precipitous1681

tearing1765

torrentuous1840

whirlwind1865

torrential1877

Gadarene1895

rocketing1952

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Pet. ii. 17 Cloudis..driuun with whirlinge wijndis.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 51 Woodnesse of..whirlynge water casteþ vp..grete hepes of grauel.

c1450 Mirk's Festial 138 What by þondyr and by layte,..by whyrlyng-wynde, by mystes.

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 12^v Yf there be any whirlynge plat in the water, the mouynge ceasethe when it commethe at the whyrlynge plat.

1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 90^v The blinde goddesse Fortune, with her doble visage, and whirlynge whele.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xix. 79 Children when they had their whirling gigges vnder the deuotion of their scourges.

1622 J. Taylor Farewell to Tower-bottles A 2 b The whirling wheele of fickle Fate.

1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xiii That whirling Globe of earth.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 535 A whirling Dart he sent.

1762 W. Cowper To Miss Macartney 34 Some Alpine mountain..Thus braves the whirling blast.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1296 The whirling public so blindly follows fashionable caprice in the choice of a carriage.

1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 273 The whirling and complicated machinery.

1885 T. P. Hughes Dict. Islam 118/1 [The Maulawīyah] are called by Europeans..the ‘dancing’, or ‘whirling’ darweshes.

b. figurative.

ΚΠ

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 137 These are but wild and wherling [1604 whurling, 1623 hurling] words, my Lord.

1631 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. (ed. 2) (2nd state) §cxl Those hurrying and whirling judgements of God.

1684 T. Creech tr. Horace Odes iii. xxx, in tr. Horace Odes, Satyrs, & Epist. (new ed.) 126 Nor whirling Time, nor flight of Years.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxvi. 357 I cannot say what was in my whirling thoughts.

1855 Milman in Mem. (1900) 189 Quiet, though in the midst of the whirling city.

Compounds

Special collocations:

whirling blue n. = whirling dun n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of

moor flylOE

drake-flya1450

dub-flya1450

dun cut1496

dun fly1496

louper1496

red fly1616

moorish fly1635

palmer1653

palmer fly1653

red hackle1653

red palmer1653

shell-fly1653

orange fly1662

blackfly1669

dun1676

dun hackle1676

hackle1676

mayfly1676

peacock fly1676

thorn-tree fly1676

turkey-fly1676

violet-fly1676

whirling dun1676

badger fly1681

greenfly1686

moorish brown1689

prime dun1696

sandfly1700

grey midge1724

whirling blue1747

dun drake?1758

death drake1766

hackle fly1786

badger1787

blue1787

brown-fly1787

camel-brown1787

spinner1787

midge1799

night-fly1799

thorn-fly1799

turkey1799

withy-fly1799

grayling fly1811

sun fly1820

cock-a-bondy1835

brown moth1837

bunting-lark fly1837

governor1837

water-hen hackle1837

Waterloo fly1837

coachman1839

soldier palmer1839

blue jay1843

red tag1850

canary1855

white-tip1856

spider1857

bumble1859

doctor1860

ibis1863

Jock Scott1866

eagle1867

highlander1867

jay1867

John Scott1867

judge1867

parson1867

priest1867

snow-fly1867

Jack Scott1874

Alexandra1875

silver doctor1875

Alexandra fly1882

grackle1894

grizzly queen1894

heckle-fly1897

Zulu1898

thunder and lightning1910

streamer1919

Devon1924

peacock1950

1747 R. Bowlker Art Angling 73 The little Whirling Blue... This Fly is only to be Fish'd with..in warm Weather.

whirling dun n. names of artificial flies used in angling.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of

moor flylOE

drake-flya1450

dub-flya1450

dun cut1496

dun fly1496

louper1496

red fly1616

moorish fly1635

palmer1653

palmer fly1653

red hackle1653

red palmer1653

shell-fly1653

orange fly1662

blackfly1669

dun1676

dun hackle1676

hackle1676

mayfly1676

peacock fly1676

thorn-tree fly1676

turkey-fly1676

violet-fly1676

whirling dun1676

badger fly1681

greenfly1686

moorish brown1689

prime dun1696

sandfly1700

grey midge1724

whirling blue1747

dun drake?1758

death drake1766

hackle fly1786

badger1787

blue1787

brown-fly1787

camel-brown1787

spinner1787

midge1799

night-fly1799

thorn-fly1799

turkey1799

withy-fly1799

grayling fly1811

sun fly1820

cock-a-bondy1835

brown moth1837

bunting-lark fly1837

governor1837

water-hen hackle1837

Waterloo fly1837

coachman1839

soldier palmer1839

blue jay1843

red tag1850

canary1855

white-tip1856

spider1857

bumble1859

doctor1860

ibis1863

Jock Scott1866

eagle1867

highlander1867

jay1867

John Scott1867

judge1867

parson1867

priest1867

snow-fly1867

Jack Scott1874

Alexandra1875

silver doctor1875

Alexandra fly1882

grackle1894

grizzly queen1894

heckle-fly1897

Zulu1898

thunder and lightning1910

streamer1919

Devon1924

peacock1950

1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler vii. 61 About the twelfth of this Month [Apr.] comes in the Flie call'd the whirling Dun.

whirling-board n. = whirling-table n. (a).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > centrifugal > instrument demonstrating

whirling-board1764

whirling-table1764

whirling-machine1843

1764 J. Ferguson Lect. Select Subj. ii. 19 Which weight..will draw the ball from the edge of the whirling-board to its center.

whirling chair n. a chair contrived to rotate rapidly, used in the treatment of insane patients.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > rotating chair

whirling chair1799

1799 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (ed. 4) II. 50 Exciting vertigo by placing the patient in a whirling chair.

whirling-machine n. = whirling-table n. (a).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > centrifugal > instrument demonstrating

whirling-board1764

whirling-table1764

whirling-machine1843

1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 326/1 Whirling-machine is an apparatus..for the purpose of determining the resistance of the air.

whirling plant n. the ‘telegraph-plant’, Desmodium gyrans (see telegraph plant n. at telegraph n. Compounds 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > Asian or Indian

moving plant1787

elephant's foot1789

Indian lettuce1791

Sonerila1846

telegraph plant1856

whirling plant1866

mitsuba1890

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1232/1 Whirling Plant, Desmodium gyrans.

whirling-table n. (a) a machine consisting essentially of a table contrived to revolve rapidly, used for experiments or demonstrations in dynamics or other branches of science; (b) a horizontally rotating disk in a potter's lathe, carrying a mould which shapes the inside of a plate, cup, or other circular piece of ware, while the outside is shaped by a templet above it.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > potter's lathe > horizontal wheel of

wheela1382

potter's wheel1609

whirling-table1764

throwing table1855

slow wheel1925

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > centrifugal > instrument demonstrating

whirling-board1764

whirling-table1764

whirling-machine1843

1764 J. Ferguson Lect. Select Subj. ii. 18 The whirling-table is a machine contrived for shewing experiments of this nature.

1830 H. Kater & D. Lardner Treat. Mechanics viii. 100 An apparatus called a whirling table..for the purpose of exhibiting illustrations of the laws of centrifugal force.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 473/1 The workman stands at a bench provided with a whirling-table.., which has its motion given by a horizontal pulley or jigger.

1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 262 An attachment to the whirling-table for projecting sound-curves upon a screen.

Derivatives

ˈwhirlingly adv. with whirling movement (also figurative).

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adverb] > with whirling movement

whirligig1598

whirlingly1812

a-whirl1883

1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair ii. lviii. 46 As they trip it whirlingly.

1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail viii. 60 The forces of nature..so whirlingly contemptuous of puny human effort.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	whirling
释义	whirlingn. /ˈhwəːlɪŋ/ Etymology: < whirl v. + -ing suffix¹. The action of whirl v. 1. A turning (swiftly) round; (rapid) rotation, revolution, or circling movement: spec. of air or water, as in a whirlwind or eddy; also of persons in a dance, etc.spec. in Mechanics (quot. 1895): see whirl v. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [noun] > whirling whirling1423 vertigo1851 whirl-about1857 burling1874 1423 Kingis Quair clxv Sum were slungin, Be quhirlyng of the quhele, vnto the ground. ?c1425 (c1390) G. Chaucer Fortune 11 So mochel hath yit thy whirlynge vp and down I-tawht me. 1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. hv Yf that there be a manere whyrlynge of water. 1582 Queen Marguerite of Navarre's Godlie Medit. (new ed.) in T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones ii. 3 This the same vnknowne gift or whurling in my hart, doth bring mee a new desire. 1616 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. v. 138 A base horse-keeper..whom if's Master turne about, I' th' moment of the Whirling he goes out. 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 9 We came amongst the most strangest whirlings of the sea. 1636 J. Trussell in Ann. Dubrensia sig. B2 The countrie Wakes, and whirlings have appeer'd..like forraine pastimes. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ix. 170 The Sholes probably caused some whirling about of the Tide. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 89 The rapid, and as he thought perilous, whirling of the..vehicle. 1835 T. Hood United Family ix We none of us that whirling [sc. the waltz] love, Which both our parents disapprove. 1838 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1868) I. 187 Where the whirlings of the stream had left the marks of its eddies in the solid marble. 1895 Philos. Trans. 1894 (Royal Soc.) A. 185 i. 279 The Whirling and Vibration of Shafts. 2. Giddiness, vertigo. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [noun] dizzinessc900 swimeOE swinglingc1000 turningc1230 turngiddya1382 giddiness1398 turngiddiness1398 vertiginyc1400 turn-sick?c1450 swindling1527 vertigo1528 swimming1530 swindle1559 turnsickness1559 duseling1561 whirling1561 turn-sick giddiness1577 megrim1595 vertiginousness1599 whimsya1627 tiegoa1640 lightheadedness1645 swimmering1650 swim1817 swirling1825 swimminess1894 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 42 The same driueth away..the whirling in the head. 1892 G. Meredith Empty Purse in Poems 107 A whirling seized thy head. 3. Hurling, flinging. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [noun] warpinga1150 throwinga1325 casting1557 whirling1579 jaculation1608 tossing1711 1579 R. Rice Inuect. Vices B iij The whorlyng of the Pottes about the house, the Cardes into the fire. 4. Misused for hurling n. 2a. ΚΠ a1721 M. Prior Ess. Opinion in Wks. (1907) II. 201 Bodmin or Truro shal break more Bones at a Whirling in Cornwal than the ablest Surgeon in London shal be able to set. Compounds C1. General attributive. whirling speed n. ΚΠ 1895 Philos. Trans. 1894 (Royal Soc.) A. 185 283 The whirling speed was taken to be at the commencement of whirl, that is to say, the lowest speed at which the shaft definitely whirled. C2. whirling disease n. a disease of trout caused by the parasitic sporozoan Myxosoma cerebralis, which affects the balance of the fish it attacks. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of fish > [noun] fungus1880 salmon disease1880 furunculosis1912 white spot1928 columnaris1945 whirling disease1961 UDN1968 1961 J. I. Lengy et al. tr. A. V. Uspenskaya in G. P. Petrusheveski Parasites & Dis. Fish 47 One of the most dangerous of the known parasitic diseases is the so-called ‘whirling disease’. 1962 Spec. Sci. Rep. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service No. 427. 2/2 Whirling disease appeared in brook trout at the Benner Spring Fish Research Station..in 1956. 1982 Times 12 Feb. 4/5 Whirling disease..is a parasite which gets into the skull of trout fry, causing a fish to lose its balance so that it swims round and round until it eventually dies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online June 2021). whirlingadj. Etymology: < whirl v. + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwhirling. a. That whirls, in various senses of the verb; turning (rapidly) round, rotating, revolving, circling (swiftly); eddying; moving impetuously, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > whirling whirling1382 whirligigging1598 burling1874 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving with impetuous speed or headlong ranka1250 whirling1382 hurlingc1400 whithering1513 headling?1518 vehement1528 heady1562 headlongc1565 precipitant1649 precipitate1654 torrent1667 precipitous1681 tearing1765 torrentuous1840 whirlwind1865 torrential1877 Gadarene1895 rocketing1952 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Pet. ii. 17 Cloudis..driuun with whirlinge wijndis. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 51 Woodnesse of..whirlynge water casteþ vp..grete hepes of grauel. c1450 Mirk's Festial 138 What by þondyr and by layte,..by whyrlyng-wynde, by mystes. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 12^v Yf there be any whirlynge plat in the water, the mouynge ceasethe when it commethe at the whyrlynge plat. 1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 90^v The blinde goddesse Fortune, with her doble visage, and whirlynge whele. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xix. 79 Children when they had their whirling gigges vnder the deuotion of their scourges. 1622 J. Taylor Farewell to Tower-bottles A 2 b The whirling wheele of fickle Fate. 1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xiii That whirling Globe of earth. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 535 A whirling Dart he sent. 1762 W. Cowper To Miss Macartney 34 Some Alpine mountain..Thus braves the whirling blast. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1296 The whirling public so blindly follows fashionable caprice in the choice of a carriage. 1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 273 The whirling and complicated machinery. 1885 T. P. Hughes Dict. Islam 118/1 [The Maulawīyah] are called by Europeans..the ‘dancing’, or ‘whirling’ darweshes. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 137 These are but wild and wherling [1604 whurling, 1623 hurling] words, my Lord. 1631 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. (ed. 2) (2nd state) §cxl Those hurrying and whirling judgements of God. 1684 T. Creech tr. Horace Odes iii. xxx, in tr. Horace Odes, Satyrs, & Epist. (new ed.) 126 Nor whirling Time, nor flight of Years. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxvi. 357 I cannot say what was in my whirling thoughts. 1855 Milman in Mem. (1900) 189 Quiet, though in the midst of the whirling city. Compounds Special collocations: whirling blue n. = whirling dun n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of moor flylOE drake-flya1450 dub-flya1450 dun cut1496 dun fly1496 louper1496 red fly1616 moorish fly1635 palmer1653 palmer fly1653 red hackle1653 red palmer1653 shell-fly1653 orange fly1662 blackfly1669 dun1676 dun hackle1676 hackle1676 mayfly1676 peacock fly1676 thorn-tree fly1676 turkey-fly1676 violet-fly1676 whirling dun1676 badger fly1681 greenfly1686 moorish brown1689 prime dun1696 sandfly1700 grey midge1724 whirling blue1747 dun drake?1758 death drake1766 hackle fly1786 badger1787 blue1787 brown-fly1787 camel-brown1787 spinner1787 midge1799 night-fly1799 thorn-fly1799 turkey1799 withy-fly1799 grayling fly1811 sun fly1820 cock-a-bondy1835 brown moth1837 bunting-lark fly1837 governor1837 water-hen hackle1837 Waterloo fly1837 coachman1839 soldier palmer1839 blue jay1843 red tag1850 canary1855 white-tip1856 spider1857 bumble1859 doctor1860 ibis1863 Jock Scott1866 eagle1867 highlander1867 jay1867 John Scott1867 judge1867 parson1867 priest1867 snow-fly1867 Jack Scott1874 Alexandra1875 silver doctor1875 Alexandra fly1882 grackle1894 grizzly queen1894 heckle-fly1897 Zulu1898 thunder and lightning1910 streamer1919 Devon1924 peacock1950 1747 R. Bowlker Art Angling 73 The little Whirling Blue... This Fly is only to be Fish'd with..in warm Weather. whirling dun n. names of artificial flies used in angling. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of moor flylOE drake-flya1450 dub-flya1450 dun cut1496 dun fly1496 louper1496 red fly1616 moorish fly1635 palmer1653 palmer fly1653 red hackle1653 red palmer1653 shell-fly1653 orange fly1662 blackfly1669 dun1676 dun hackle1676 hackle1676 mayfly1676 peacock fly1676 thorn-tree fly1676 turkey-fly1676 violet-fly1676 whirling dun1676 badger fly1681 greenfly1686 moorish brown1689 prime dun1696 sandfly1700 grey midge1724 whirling blue1747 dun drake?1758 death drake1766 hackle fly1786 badger1787 blue1787 brown-fly1787 camel-brown1787 spinner1787 midge1799 night-fly1799 thorn-fly1799 turkey1799 withy-fly1799 grayling fly1811 sun fly1820 cock-a-bondy1835 brown moth1837 bunting-lark fly1837 governor1837 water-hen hackle1837 Waterloo fly1837 coachman1839 soldier palmer1839 blue jay1843 red tag1850 canary1855 white-tip1856 spider1857 bumble1859 doctor1860 ibis1863 Jock Scott1866 eagle1867 highlander1867 jay1867 John Scott1867 judge1867 parson1867 priest1867 snow-fly1867 Jack Scott1874 Alexandra1875 silver doctor1875 Alexandra fly1882 grackle1894 grizzly queen1894 heckle-fly1897 Zulu1898 thunder and lightning1910 streamer1919 Devon1924 peacock1950 1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler vii. 61 About the twelfth of this Month [Apr.] comes in the Flie call'd the whirling Dun. whirling-board n. = whirling-table n. (a). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > centrifugal > instrument demonstrating whirling-board1764 whirling-table1764 whirling-machine1843 1764 J. Ferguson Lect. Select Subj. ii. 19 Which weight..will draw the ball from the edge of the whirling-board to its center. whirling chair n. a chair contrived to rotate rapidly, used in the treatment of insane patients. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > rotating chair whirling chair1799 1799 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (ed. 4) II. 50 Exciting vertigo by placing the patient in a whirling chair. whirling-machine n. = whirling-table n. (a). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > centrifugal > instrument demonstrating whirling-board1764 whirling-table1764 whirling-machine1843 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 326/1 Whirling-machine is an apparatus..for the purpose of determining the resistance of the air. whirling plant n. the ‘telegraph-plant’, Desmodium gyrans (see telegraph plant n. at telegraph n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > Asian or Indian moving plant1787 elephant's foot1789 Indian lettuce1791 Sonerila1846 telegraph plant1856 whirling plant1866 mitsuba1890 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1232/1 Whirling Plant, Desmodium gyrans. whirling-table n. (a) a machine consisting essentially of a table contrived to revolve rapidly, used for experiments or demonstrations in dynamics or other branches of science; (b) a horizontally rotating disk in a potter's lathe, carrying a mould which shapes the inside of a plate, cup, or other circular piece of ware, while the outside is shaped by a templet above it. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > potter's lathe > horizontal wheel of wheela1382 potter's wheel1609 whirling-table1764 throwing table1855 slow wheel1925 the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > centrifugal > instrument demonstrating whirling-board1764 whirling-table1764 whirling-machine1843 1764 J. Ferguson Lect. Select Subj. ii. 18 The whirling-table is a machine contrived for shewing experiments of this nature. 1830 H. Kater & D. Lardner Treat. Mechanics viii. 100 An apparatus called a whirling table..for the purpose of exhibiting illustrations of the laws of centrifugal force. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 473/1 The workman stands at a bench provided with a whirling-table.., which has its motion given by a horizontal pulley or jigger. 1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 262 An attachment to the whirling-table for projecting sound-curves upon a screen. Derivatives ˈwhirlingly adv. with whirling movement (also figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adverb] > with whirling movement whirligig1598 whirlingly1812 a-whirl1883 1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair ii. lviii. 46 As they trip it whirlingly. 1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail viii. 60 The forces of nature..so whirlingly contemptuous of puny human effort. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1423adj.1382
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