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The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface.

Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

To bear or carry round. [Obs.] Bacon.

The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery. Millon.

So as to surround or encircle.

Blowing around. [Obs.] Evelyn.

To bend around.

Moving or turning round; circuitous. [R.] Swift.

A flowing round on all sides; an inclosing with a fluid.

Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid. "The deep, circumfluent waves." Pope.

Shining around or about.

To pour round; to spread round. His army circumfused on either wing. Milton.

Capable of being poured or spread round. "Circumfusile gold." Pope.

The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round. Swift.

To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion. Ray.

The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round. A certain turbulent and irregular circumgyration. Holland.

Moving in a circle; turning round. Hawthorne.

Lying round; borderong on every side. T. Fuller.

The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution office, a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delay…

Capable of being sailed round. Ray.