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Gyroidal :: Gyroidal (a.) Turning the plane of polarization circularly or spirally to the right or left.

Suspiration :: Suspiral (n.) A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.

Rifle :: Rifle (v. t.) To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon..

Antidromous :: Antidromous (a.) Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.

Volute :: Volute (n.) A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals. See Illust. of Capital, also Helix, and Stale..

Helicograph :: Helicograph (n.) An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.

Caracole :: Caracole (n.) A staircase in a spiral form.

Spiral :: Spiral (a.) Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.

Twist :: Twist (n.) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.

Spirally :: Spirality (n.) The quality or states of being spiral.

Worm :: Worm (n.) Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm.

Littorina :: Littorina (n.) A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle..

Worm :: Worm (n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope..

Peristome :: Peristome (n.) The lip, or edge of the aperture, of a spiral shell..

Valvata :: Valvata (n.) A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum.

Gyratory :: Gyratory (a.) Moving in a circle, or spirally; revolving; whirling around..

Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct..

Wind :: Wind (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole..

Revolution :: Revolution (n.) Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral..

Turban :: Turban (n.) The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell.

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