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to catch or attempt to seize. Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the shadow, and loses the substance. L'Estrange.

To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles. Christianized philosophers. I. Taylor.

A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.

An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New york.

That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. "Within the cincture of one wall." Bacon.

Compass; circuit; inclosure. In the circle of this forest. Shak.

The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits. A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees. Milton.

ce, mean; inferior. See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic. Had Virgil been a circular poet, and closely adhered to history, how could the Romans have had Dido Dennis.

The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.

Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing. "The circumambient heaven." J. Armstrong.

Act of inclosing on all sides. [R.]

A flowing round on all sides; an inclosing with a fluid.

eriphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution office, a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different officials.

To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain. To circumscribe royal power. Bancroft.

Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.

A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.

Inclosed in a cyst. See Cysted.

hing becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color. Thynne.

A small inclosed pond used for gathering and greening oysters.

Conducted with secrecy; clandestine; concealed. [Obs.] Not close and clancular, but frank and open. Barrow.