turbillion

English

Alternative forms

turbullion

- 1836 Joanna Baillie, Enthusiasm, Act 2.
  'I would not undertake to supply either lords or ladies wi' such a turbullion of roaring, and thumping, and winnowing of arms, for a month's wages twice told.'

Etymology

French tourbillon, from Latin turbo (“a whirl”).

Noun

turbillion (plural turbillions)

A whirl or vortex.
- 1712 September 12 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “MONDAY, September 1, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 472; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:
  each of them is a fun moving on its own axis in the centre of its own vortex or turbillion

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for turbillion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

单词	turbillion
释义	turbillion English Alternative forms turbullion 1836 Joanna Baillie, Enthusiasm, Act 2. 'I would not undertake to supply either lords or ladies wi' such a turbullion of roaring, and thumping, and winnowing of arms, for a month's wages twice told.' Etymology French tourbillon, from Latin turbo (“a whirl”). Noun turbillion (plural turbillions) A whirl or vortex. 1712 September 12 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “MONDAY, September 1, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 472; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697: each of them is a fun moving on its own axis in the centre of its own vortex or turbillion Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for turbillion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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