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Incapable of being circumscribed or limited. Cranmer.

Condition or quality of being incircumscriptible or limitless. Jer. Taylor.

Not circumspect; heedless; careless; reckless; impolitic. Tyndale.

Want of circumspection. Sir T. Browne.

e rear of the parquet and beneath the galleries; -- called also, esp. in U. S., orchestra circle or parterre.

The equivalent of an additional circuit or wire, in reality not existing, obtained by certain arrangements of real circuits, as in some multiplex telegraph systems.

Half of a circumference.

The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference.

Semicircular. Shak.

Having the form of half of a circle. Addison. Semicircular canals (Anat.), certain canals of the inner ear. See under Ear.

A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.

To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.

Nearly circular.

Not circumcised; hence, not of the Israelites. "This uncircumcised Philistine." 1 Sam. xvii. 26.

The absence or want of circumcision.

Not circumstantial; not entering into minute particulars.

om truth, rectitude, etc. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form.

In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.

In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

er fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. "They accomodate their counsels to his inclination." Addison.