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A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it. [Written also cimia.]

To make a circle around; to encompass. [Obs.] Bailey.

To move around; to revolve around. Other planets circle other suns. Pope.

A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun. Watts.

to to pass around, as information. Syn. -- circulate, circularize, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse. [WordNet 1.5]

A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words, and signifying around or about.

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.

Blowing around. [Obs.] Evelyn.

To bend around.

Shining around or about.

About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.

Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

to write or engare around. [R.] Thereon is circumscribed this epitaph. Ashmole.

An inscription written around anything. [R.] Ashmole.

Looking around everi way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger. "Circumspective eyes." Pope.

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

Being or dwelling around the earth. "Circumterraneous demouns." H. Hallywell.

A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.

The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.