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Promoting circulation; circulating. [R.] Coleridge.

One who, or that which, circulates.

Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant. [Obs.] "Circulatorious jugglers." Barrow.

Circular; as, a circulatory letter. Johnson.

To walk round about. -- Cir`cum*am`bu*la"tion, n.

To flow round, as waves. [R.]

Surrounded by a ridle or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillæ, near the base of the tongue.

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

The act of flying round. [R.]

A soft or sloppy lump or mass; as, to throw a clatch of mud.

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate. Gray.

sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds. Clattering loud with clamk. Longfellow.

One who clatters.

With clattering.

See Clavate.

Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning. [Obs.]

Corresponding relation.

Coagulated. [Obs.] Shak.

Changed into, or contained in, a coagulum or a curdlike mass; curdled. Coagulated proteid (Physiol. Chem.), one of a class of bodies formed in the coagulation of a albuminous substance by heat, acids, or other agents.

tate, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification.