gyreful

gyre +‎ -ful

gyreful (comparative more gyreful, superlative most gyreful)

1. (obsolete, rare, poetic) Moving in gyres, whirling.
   • 1566, Horace, “The fyrst Satyre”, in Thomas Drant, transl., A Medicinable Morall, that is, the two Bookes of Horace his Satyres […]‎:

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

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

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

     [Their labor hot they follow: to the flame fits gyreful awarding.]

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

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

• “gyreful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.