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

A circle; a concentric layer. [Obs.] "The circinations and spherical rounds of onions." Sir T. Browne.

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.

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

In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. Boyle.

The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. This continual circulation of human things. Swift.

A circlet. [Obs.] Spenser.

Proceeding in a circle; circular. [Obs.] "With motion circuline". Dr. H. More.

The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.

A circle; anything circular. His ponderous shield . . . Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton.

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.

Moving in a circle; turning round. Hawthorne.

The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.

A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor. Keats.

e as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class. -- Class meeting (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.

A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used in a bad sense.

To encircle and hold with, or as with, coils. [Obs. or R.] T. Edwards.

The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley.