Part 1933

<blockquote>Their heads are <b>circled</b> with a short turban. <i>Dampier.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>So he lies, <b>circled</b> with evil. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To circle in</col>, <cd>to confine; to hem in; to keep together; as, to <i>circle<i> bodies <i>in<i>.</cd></cs>

<i>Sir K. Digby.</i>

<h1>Circle</h1> <Xpage=257>

<hw>Cir"cle</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate.</def>

<blockquote>Thy name shall <b>circle</b> round the gaping through. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Circled</h1> <Xpage=257>

<hw>Cir"cled</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having the form of a circle; round.</def> "Monthly changes in her <i>circled</i> orb."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Circler</h1> <Xpage=257>

<hw>Cir"cler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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 <er>Cyclic</er>, <tt>a.</tt></def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Circlet</h1> <Xpage=257>

<hw>Cir"clet</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Her fair locks in <b>circlet</b> be enrolled. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A round body; an orb.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

<blockquote>Fairest of stars . . . that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright <b>circlet</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Circocele</h1> <Xpage=257>

<hw>Cir"co*cele</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Cirsocele</er>.</def>

<h1>Circuit</h1> <Xpage=257>

<hw>Cir"cuit</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>circuit</ets>, fr. L. <ets>circuitus</ets>, fr. <ets>circuire</ets> or <ets>circumire</ets> to go around; <ets>circum</ets> around + <ets>ire</ets> to go.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; <as>as, the periodical <ex>circuit</ex> of the earth round the sun</as>.</def>

<i>Watts.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>circuit</b> or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles. <i>J. Stow.</i></blockquote>