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The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.

Circular; illogical. [Obs. & .] "Cross and circulary speeches." Hooker.

Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object. Hills of circumdenudation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.

A leading about; circumlocution. [R.] Hooker.

iling over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion. A school in which he learns sly circumvention. Cowper.

In a clammy manner. "Oozing so clammily." Hood.

erest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously. Partidge and the rest of his clan may hoot me. Smolett. The whole clan of the enlightened among us. Burke.

To give out a clang; to resound. "Clanging hoofs." Tennyson.

An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.

A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.

One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.

A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.

To pert or open naturally; to divide. Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws. Deut. xiv. 6.

A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.

A large hook or crook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron- headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft.

rom the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church. Hooker.

eading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it. [Eng.] Hook. And like unlettered clerk still cry "Amen". Shak.

One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.] Hook.

flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak. Youatt.

One of the divisions of a cleft hoof, as in the ox; also, the whole hoof.