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To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. Walker.

A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.

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

Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid. "The deep, circumfluent waves." Pope.

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

Shining around or about.

To pour round; to spread round. His army circumfused on either wing. Milton.

Capable of being poured or spread round. "Circumfusile gold." Pope.

The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round. Swift.

The act or process of carrying about. [Obs.] Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor.

To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion. Ray.

The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round. A certain turbulent and irregular circumgyration. Holland.

Moving in a circle; turning round. Hawthorne.

To circumgyrate. [Obs.]

The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.

Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering ou every side.

Lying round; borderong on every side. T. Fuller.

One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter. [Obs.] Derham.

Adjointing the shore.

e. 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.