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tritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.

To travel around. [Obs.] "Having circuited the air." T. Warton.

One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge. [R.] R. Whitlock.

Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant. [Obs.] "Circulatorious jugglers." Barrow.

To contravene; to nullify; as, to circumduct acts of judicature. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. [Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.

A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.

e the equinoctial line He circled; four times crossed the car of night From pole to pole, traversing each colure. Milton.

usiness. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.

employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.

of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.

portation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance, as increase of travel; specif., a ticket for a certain number of, or for daily, trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate, such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation tickets are excep…

To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.

One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.

o a full knowledge. [Obs.] When I shall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall.

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

imarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything. Bartlett.

tled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.

THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. Pennant.