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In a circular manner.

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

In a circle; circularly; on every side; round.

To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate. Thy name shall circle round the gaping through. Byron.

Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.

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,…

Turning the plane of polarization circularly or spirally to the right or left.

A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane.

ike the hollow roar Of tides receding from the instituted shore. Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley.

undergoing within the rhomb, at other faces, two reflections. It is used to produce a ray circularly polarized from a plane-polarized ray, or the reverse. Nichol.

To turn; to move circularly. And his red eyeballs roll with living fire. Dryden.

Circularly; in a circular form or manner; by revolving or reversing one's position; as, to turn one's head round; a wheel turns round.

A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.

To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn. To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye. Milton.