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A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
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Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
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Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted.
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A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells.
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The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
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Having a volute, or spiral scroll.
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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.
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A whorl of a spiral shell.
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Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.
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Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.
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A spiral turn or wreath.
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Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.
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A spiral turn, as in certain shells.
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The quality or states of being spiral.
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A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation.
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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.
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In a spiral form, manner, or direction.
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To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form of a helix.
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A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum.
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Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
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