Word Meanings - VORTICOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Vortical; whirling; as, a vorticose motion.

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• WHIRLBONE
  The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth.
• VORTICOSE
  Vortical; whirling; as, a vorticose motion.
• WHIRLWIND
  1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• WHIRLBAT
  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.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• WHIRLIGIG
  Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to Gyrinus and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• WHIRL-BLAST
  A whirling blast or wind. A whirl-blast from behind the hill. Wordsworth.
• WHIRLPOOL
  1. An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular
• WHIRLPIT
  A whirlpool. "Raging whirlpits." Sandys.
• MOTION
  1. To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat. 2. To propose; to move. I want friends to motion such a matter. Burton.
• WHIRLING
  a. & n. from Whirl, v. t. Whirling table. 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. A potter's wheel.
• VORTICAL
  Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion. -- Vor"ti*cal*ly, adv.
• WHIRLICOTE
  An open car or chariot. Of old time coaches were not known in this island, but chariots, or whirlicotes. Stow.
• WHIRLWIG
  A whirligig.
• WHIRL
  hvirvle; akin to D. wervelen, G. wirbeln, freq. of the verb seen in 1. To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve. He whirls his sword around without delay. Dryden. 2. To remove or carry quickly with, or as with,
• WHIRLABOUT
  Something that whirls or turns about in a rapid manner; a whirligig.
• WHIRLER
  One who, or that which, whirls.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• IDEO-MOTION
  An ideo-motor movement.
• PREMOTION
  Previous motion or excitement to action.
• UPWHIRL
  To rise upward in a whirl; to raise upward with a whirling motion.
• ELECTRO-MOTION
  The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.
• LINK MOTION
  A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very