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

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

To sail completely round. Having circumnavigated the whole earth. T. Fuller.

To pass through the stages of circumnutation.

To rotate about. [R.]

invest with particular accidents or adjuncts. [R.] If the act were otherwise circumstantiated, it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly. Bramhall.

To flow round, as waves. [R.]

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

Having cirri along the margin of a part or organ.

A salt of citric acid.

To declare war with certain ceremonies. [Obs.] Holland.

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

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate. Gray.

Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top.

See Clavate.

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

One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.

A blockhead; a dolt.

Stupid; dull; doltish.

Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.