spiral
      adj : in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiraling,
             volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate]
      n 1: a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center
           but at ever-greater distances from it
      2: a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and
         cuts the element at a constant angle [syn: helix]
      3: ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around
         a center with an increasing distance from the center [syn:
          volute]
      4: a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous
         series of loops; "a coil of rope" [syn: coil, volute,
         whorl, helix]
      5: flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
      v 1: to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves
           of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black
           smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people
           gyrated on the dance floor" [syn: gyrate, coil]
      2: form a spiral; "The path spirals up the mountain"
      3: move in a spiral or zigzag course [syn: corkscrew]
      [also: spiralling, spiralled]


 spiralled
      See spiral