swirl

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To move with a twisting or whirling motion; eddy.
2. v. To be dizzy or disoriented.
3. v. To be arranged in a spiral, whorl, or twist.
4. v. To cause to move with a twisting or whirling motion. See Synonyms at turn.
5. v. To form into or arrange in a spiral, whorl, or twist.
6. n. A whirling or eddying motion or mass: a swirl of white water.
7. n. Something, such as a curl of hair, that coils, twists, or whirls.
8. n. Whirling confusion or disorder: "high-pressure farce built around the swirl of mistaken identities” ( Jay Carr).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To form eddies; whirl in eddies; have a whirling motion; whirl about.
2. To give a whirling motion to.
3. n. A whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; gyration; whirl.
4. n. Hence Specifically, in angling, the rush of a fish through the water when it rises to a fly.
5. n. A twist or convolution, as in the grain of wood; a curl; a spot marked by swirling.
6. n. Same as swire, 2.

Wiktionary

1. n. a whirling eddy
2. n. a twist or coil of something
3. v. To twist or whirl, as an eddy
4. v. To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
2. n. A whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. turn in a twisting or spinning motion
2. v. flow in a circular current, of liquids
3. n. the shape of something rotating rapidly