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Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and of the eel.

The act of going round; circumlocution. [R.]

Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n.

A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.

Circulating, or going round. T. Warton.

Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house. Addison.

w. [U. S.] The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Entrance; entrance way; manner of entering; beginning. "The goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof." Ezek. xliii. 11

ioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of one lord keeper and accession of another. [Eng.] -- The United States Christians Commission, an organization among the people of the North, during the Civil War, which afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers,…

apoleon from Milan Dec. 17, 1807, imposing further restrictions, and declaring every ship going to or from a port of England or her colonies to be lawful prize.

Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. [Obs.] Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South.

A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill. Knight.

A reception held at the time of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince. [Obs.] Dryden. The duke's levees and couchees were so crowded that the antechambers were full. Bp. Burnet.

To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. "Your kind letter crossed mine." J. D. Forbes.

oration or for pleasure. He feigned a compliance with some of his men, who were bent upon going a cruise to Manilla. Dampier.

Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory. [Obs.] "Deambulatory actors." Bp. Morton.

Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.

A going away; departure; hence, death. [Obs.] At my depart for France. Shak. Your loss and his depart. Shak.

Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away. Departure from this happy place. Milton.

The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.