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The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.

One who performs circumcision. Milton.

The Jews, as a circumcised people.

Act of inclosing on all sides. [R.]

The act of running about; also, rambling language. [Obs.] Barrow.

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.

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

To contravene; to nullify; as, to circumduct acts of judicature. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

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

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

Circumesophagal.

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

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

Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous. Parkhurst.

So as to surround or encircle.

es and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360º, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.

Blowing around. [Obs.] Evelyn.

To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel. [R.]

See Circumflexion.