Word Meanings - SPIRAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.

• Spraints
  The dung of an otter.
• Wind-rode
  Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other.
• Sprengel pump
  A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow tube, in the manner of an aspirator; -- named from the inventor.
• ROUNDARM
  Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally. R. A. Proctor.
• Spring
  To leap; to bound; to jump.
• WINDBROKEN
  Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a ho
• Springtime
  The season of spring; springtide.
• Spritsail
  A sail extended by a sprit.
• Curvedness
  The state of being curved.
• Watched
  of Watch
• Roundelay
  See Rondeau, and Rondel.
• Roundure
  Roundness; a round or circle.
• Windlace
  See Windlass.
• Sprang
  imp. of Spring.
• Windrow
  A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.
• Sprent
  p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.
• ROUNDBACKED
  Having a round back or shoulders; round-shouldered.
• Springal
  Alt. of Springall
• WINDFERTILIZED
  Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.

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