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ceronian phrase or expression. "Great study in Ciceronianism, the chief abuse of Oxford." Sir P. Sidney.

To tame. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Made, or consisting, of hair. [Obs.] A Cilicious or sackcloth habit. Sir T. Browne.

began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures. Sir W. Raleigh.

A district, or part of a province. See Sircar. [India]

A circle; a concentric layer. [Obs.] "The circinations and spherical rounds of onions." Sir T. Browne.

oleridge. To circle in, to confine; to hem in; to keep together; as, to circle bodies in. Sir K. Digby.

The act of surrounding or encompassing. Sir T. Browne.

To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence. Sir W. Scott.

To include in a circular space; to bound. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

ion. [Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.

Standing or placed around; surrounding. [R.] "Circumstant bodies." Sir K. Digby.

To cover round, as woth a garment; to invest. [Obs.] Circumvested with much prejudice. Sir H. Wotton.

tion. [Obs.] Monarchies have risen from barbarrism to civility, and fallen again to ruin. Sir J. Davies. The gradual depature of all deeper signification from the word civility has obliged the creation of another word -- civilization. Trench.

A small village containing a church. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott Sitting at the clachon alehouse. R. L. Stevenson.

The act of crying out. Sir T. Browne.

clanged or struck together. The broadsword's deadly clang, As if a thousand anvils rang. Sir W. Scott.

Same as Clamjamphrie. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

ght by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup. "Boiled and clarified." Ure.

An embrace. Sir P. Sidney.