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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VOR'TICAL, a. Whirling; turning; as a vortical motion.

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1653 of, relating to, or resembling a vortex ; swirling • vortically adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vortical Vor"ti*cal, a. Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion. -- Vor"ti*cal*ly, adv.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Whirling, turning.

Moby Thesaurus

affluent, circumgyratory, circumvolutory, confluent, coursing, cyclonic, decurrent, defluent, diffluent, flowing, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, gulfy, gushing, gyral, gyrational, gyratory, gyrostatic, mazy, meandering, pouring, profluent, racing, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, serpentine, sluggish, streaming, surging, surgy, swirly, tidal, tornadic, trochilic, vertiginous, whirlabout, whirligig, whirlwindish, whirlwindy, whirly