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hen the money can be drawn in fractional sums in several different places, it is called a circular letter of credit. -- Public credit. (a) The reputation of, or general confidence in, the ability or readiness of a government to fulfull its pecuniary engagements. (b) The ability and fidelity of merchants or others who…

tached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."

A curve of the third degree. Circular cubic. See under Circular.

A combining form meaning circular, of a circle or wheel.

A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects,…

A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures.

Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within. Weale.

of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.

A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.

A circular projecting portion.

A plate with an opening, which is generally circular, used in instruments to cut off marginal portions of a beam of light, as at the focus of a telescope.

a circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.

A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill.

A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.

A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.

rical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome. (e) (Mach.)

s, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.

A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden. Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. Addison.

mill, a crushing or grinding mill in which stones roll around on their edges, on a level circular bed; -- used for ore, and as an oil mill. Called also Chilian mill. -- Edge molding (Arch.), a molding whose section is made up of two curves meeting in an angle. -- Edge plane. (a) (Carp.) A plane for edging boards. (b…

Sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.