Part 1940

<hw>Cir*cum`fer*en"tial</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>circumferentialis</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.</def>

<i>Parkhurst.</i>

<h1>Circumferentially</h1> <Xpage=258>

<hw>Cir*cum`fer*en"tial*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>So as to surround or encircle.</def>

<h1>Circumferentor</h1> <Xpage=258>

<hw>Cir*cum`fer*en"tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Circumfer</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360&deg;, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A graduated wheel for measuring tires; a tire circle.</def>

<h1>Circumflant</h1> <Xpage=258>

<hw>Cir"cum*flant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>circumflans</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>circumflare</ets>.]</ety> <def>Blowing around.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Evelyn.</i>

<h1>Circumflect</h1> <Xpage=258>

<hw>Cir"cum*flect</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Circumflected</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Circumflecting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>circumflectere</ets>. See <er>Circumflex</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To bend around.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Circumflection</h1> <Xpage=258>

<hw>Cir`cum*flec"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Circumflexion</er>.</def>

<h1>Circumflex</h1> <Xpage=258>

<hw>Cir"cum*flex</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>circumflexus</ets> a bending round, fr. <ets>circumflectere</ets>, <ets>circumflexum</ets>, to bend or turn about; <ets>circum + flectere</ets> to bend. See <er>Flexible</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.</def>

<i>Walker.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or <?/]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [<?/ or ^]. See <er>Accent</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 2.</def>

<h1>Circumflex</h1> <Xpage=258>

<hw>Cir"cum*flex</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Circumflexed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Circumflexing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <def>To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.</def>

<i>Walker.</i>

<h1>Circumflex</h1> <Xpage=258>

<hw>Cir"cum*flex</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. L. <ets>circumflexus</ets>, p. p.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Moving or turning round; circuitous.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Swift.</i>