a. and sb. rare. ? Obs. [f. Gr. τροχίλος, taken in sense of τροχός wheel + -IC.] a. adj. Of or pertaining to rotary motion; relating to wheels. b. sb. The science or art of rotary motion. Also trochilics.
1570. Dee, Math. Pref., c iv b. Bycause the frute hereof … is in Wheles, it hath the name of Trochilike: as a man would say, Whele Art.
1605. Camden, Rem., 138. By Arte Trochilick.
1641. Wilkins, Math. Magick, II. xiv. (1648), 265. Some principles in Trochilicks, or the art of wheel-instruments.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. xviii. 260. Horologies composed by Trochilick or the artifice of wheeles.
1648. Petty, Advice to Hartlib, 6. Making Watches and other Trochilick motions.
1696. in Phillips (ed. 5).
