▪ I. spirally, adv.1
(ˈspaɪərəlɪ)
[f. spiral a.1]
1. In a spiral manner; in spiral lines or curves.
| a 1608 Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 52 The bonds seem of a smoky ashy collour, spirally going about the cloud. 1691 Ray Creation ii. (1692) 48 The Heart..being a Muscular Part, the sides of it are composed of two orders of Fibres running circularly or spirally from Base to Tip. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine s.v. Engagement, The barrel..is rifled spirally. 1799 G. Smith Laboratory 312 Let pieces of milled lead be rolled spirally. 1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 210 A canal passing spirally up its sides. 1845 J. Coulter Adv. in Pacific vii. 75 They..cut the blubber the proper breadth spirally from the base of the head to the flukes. 1885 Mag. of Art Sept. 458/1 The coils all joined together and running parallel to each other, instead of spirally. |
2. Comb., as spirally-arranged, spirally-coiled, etc.
| 1815 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1818) I. 62 Two spirally-convoluted tubes were filled with a silky gum. 1816 Ibid. II. 423 Two minute oval sacs formed of an elastic spirally-wound fibre. 1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 198 Two spirally-coiled tubular appendages nearly filling the shell. 1870 Rolleston Anim. Life 131 The mucous membrane..is prolonged into spirally-arranged valvular folds. 1882 Vines tr. Sachs' Bot. 639 The concave side of the long spirally-curved vegetative cone. |
▪ II. ˈspirally, adv.2 rare—1.
[f. spiral a.2]
After the manner of a spire; high in air.
| 1806 A. Duncan Nelson 13 The..flags rising spirally above them afforded a..relief to the glare. |