Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CEN-TRIF'U-GAL, a. [L. centrum, and fugio, to flee.]

1. Tending to recede from the center. The centrifugal force of a body, is that force by which all bodies moving round another body in a curve tend to fly off from the axis of their motion, in a tangent to the periphery of the curve. – Encyc.
2. In botany, expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower. – Lindley.