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An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus. [R.] T. Warton.

A district, or part of a province. See Sircar. [India]

Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia. -- n.

Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.

Of or pertaining to, or held in, the Circus, In Rome. The pleasure of the Circensian shows. Holyday.

Circinate.

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.

A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.

Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak.

A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband. Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled. Spenser.

See Cirsocele.

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 circuiter. Pope.

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

The act of going round; circumlocution. [R.]

Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n.

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

That may be circulated.