gyreful

comparative more gyreful · superlative most gyreful

1. obsoletepoeticrareMoving in gyres, whirling.

   Theyre labor hoat they folow: toe the flame fits gyreful awarding.

   1582, Virgil, translated by Richard Stanyhurst, Thee first foure bookes of Virgil his Aeneis […], page 95

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   Of forayne worlde, on mounte Olimpe / whose carts when they were roulde / With gyrefull sway, by course swyfters, / to winne the glistring branche.

   1566, Horace, “The fyrst Satyre”, in Thomas Drant, transl., A Medicinable Morall, that is, the two Bookes of Horace his Satyres […]

   Leaf preened by wind takes janty flight, / And gyreful now—now out of sight,

   1892 November, Mary V. Agnew, “A Sepia Sketch, with Suggestions for a Thanksgiving Dinner”, in Table Talk, volume 7, number 11, page 381