Circensial (a.) Alt. of Circensian
Circensian (a.) Of or pertaining to, or held in, the Circus, In Rome.
Circinal (a.) Circinate.
Circinate (a.) Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.
Circinate (v. t.) To make a circle around; to encompass.
Circination (n.) An orbicular motion.
Circination (n.) A circle; a concentric layer.
Circle (n.) A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.
Circle (n.) The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring.
Circle (n.) An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle.
Circle (n.) A round body; a sphere; an orb.
Circle (n.) Compass; circuit; inclosure.
Circle (n.) A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a class or division of society; a coterie; a set.
Circle (n.) A circular group of persons; a ring.
Circle (n.) A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
Circle (n.) A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
Circle (n.) Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
Circle (n.) A territorial division or district.
Circled (imp. & p. p.) of Circle
Circling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circle
Circle (n.) To move around; to revolve around.
Circle (n.) To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle.
Circle (v. i.) To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate.
Circled (a.) Having the form of a circle; round.
Circler (n.) A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a.
Circlet (n.) A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband.
Circlet (n.) A round body; an orb.
Circlet (n.) A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table.
Circocele (n.) See Cirsocele.
Circuit (n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.
Circuit (n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.
Circuit (n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
Circuit (n.) The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.
Circuit (n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
Circuit (n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
Circuit (n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
Circuit (n.) Circumlocution.
Circuit (v. i.) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
Circuit (v. t.) To travel around.
Circuiteer (n.) A circuiter.
Circuiter (n.) One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge.
Circuition (n.) The act of going round; circumlocution.
Circuitous (a.) Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.
Circuity (n.) A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.
Circulable (a.) That may be circulated.
Circular (a.) In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.
Circular (a.) repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.
Circular (a.) Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior. See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic.
Circular (a.) Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter.
Circular (a.) Perfect; complete.
Circular (a.) A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.
Circular (a.) A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form.
Circularity (n.) The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.
Circularly (adv.) In a circular manner.
Circulary (a.) Circular; illogical.
Ciorculated (imp. & p. p.) of Circulate
Circulating (P. pr. & vb. n.) of Circulate
Circulate (v. i.) To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.
Circulate (v. i.) To pass from place to place, from person to person, or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates.
Circulate (v. t.) To cause to pass from place to place, or from person to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit.
Circulation (n.) The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
Circulation (n.) The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
Circulation (n.) Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
Circulation (n.) The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.
Circulation (n.) The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
Circulative (a.) Promoting circulation; circulating.
Circulator (n.) One who, or that which, circulates.
Circulatorious (a.) Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant.
Circulatory (a.) Circular; as, a circulatory letter.
Circulatory (a.) Circulating, or going round.
Circulatory (a.) Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory diseases.
Circulatory (n.) A chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.
Circulet (n.) A circlet.
Circuline (a.) Proceeding in a circle; circular.
Circum- () A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words, and signifying around or about.
Circumagitate (v. t.) To agitate on all sides.
Circumambage (n.) A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness.
Circumambiency (n.) The act of surrounding or encompassing.
Circumambient (a.) Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.
Circumambulate (v. t.) To walk round about.
Circumbendibus (n.) A roundabout or indirect way.
Circumcenter (n.) The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.
Circumcised (imp. & p. p.) of Circumcise
Circumcising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circumcise
Circumcise (v. t.) To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.
Circumcise (v. t.) To purify spiritually.
Circumciser (n.) One who performs circumcision.
Circumcision (n.) The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.
Circumcision (n.) The Jews, as a circumcised people.
Circumcision (n.) Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith.
Circumclusion (n.) Act of inclosing on all sides.
Circumcursation (n.) The act of running about; also, rambling language.
Circumdenudation (n.) Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object.
Circumduce (v. t.) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence.
Circumduct (v. t.) To lead about; to lead astray.
Circumduct (v. t.) To contravene; to nullify; as, to circumduct acts of judicature.
Circumduction (n.) A leading about; circumlocution.
Circumduction (n.) An annulling; cancellation.
Circumduction (n.) The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface.
Circumesophagal (a.) Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.