Circumesophageal (a.) Circumesophagal.
Circumfer (v. t.) To bear or carry round.
Circumference (n.) The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery.
Circumference (n.) A circle; anything circular.
Circumference (n.) The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body.
Circumference (v. t.) To include in a circular space; to bound.
Circumferential (a.) Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.
Circumferentially (adv.) So as to surround or encircle.
Circumferentor (n.) 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¡, 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.
Circumferentor (n.) A graduated wheel for measuring tires; a tire circle.
Circumflant (a.) Blowing around.
Circumflected (imp. & p. p.) of Circumflect
Circumflecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circumflect
Circumflect (v. t.) To bend around.
Circumflect (v. t.) To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel.
Circumflection (n.) See Circumflexion.
Circumflex (n.) A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
Circumflex (n.) 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 Accent, n., 2.
Circumflexed (imp. & p. p.) of Circumflex
Circumflexing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circumflex
Circumflex (v. t.) To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
Circumflex (a.) Moving or turning round; circuitous.
Circumflex (a.) Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.
Circumflexion (n.) The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
Circumflexion (n.) A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.
Circumfluence (n.) A flowing round on all sides; an inclosing with a fluid.
Circumfluent (a.) Alt. of Circumfluous
Circumfluous (a.) Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid.
Circumforanean (a.) Alt. of Circumforaneous
Circumforaneous (a.) Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house.
Circumfulgent (a.) Shining around or about.
Circumfuse (v. t.) To pour round; to spread round.
Circumfusile (a.) Capable of being poured or spread round.
Circumfusion (n.) The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round.
Circumgestation (n.) The act or process of carrying about.
Circumgyrate (v. t. & i.) To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion.
Circumgyration (n.) The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round.
Circumgyratory (a.) Moving in a circle; turning round.
Circumgyre (v. i.) To circumgyrate.
Circumincession (n.) The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.
Circumjacence (n.) Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering on every side.
Circumjacent (a.) Lying round; bordering on every side.
Circumjovial (n.) One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter.
Circumlittoral (a.) Adjointing the shore.
Circumlocution (n.) The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.
Circumlocutional (a.) Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.
Circumlocutory (a.) Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic.
Circummeridian (a.) About, or near, the meridian.
Circummure (v. t.) To encompass with a wall.
Circumnavigable (a.) Capable of being sailed round.
Circumnavigated (imp. & p. p.) of Circumnavigate
Circumnavigating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circumnavigate
Circumnavigate (v. t.) To sail completely round.
Circumnavigation (n.) The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.
Circumnavigator (n.) One who sails round.
Circumnutate (v. i.) To pass through the stages of circumnutation.
Circumnutation (n.) The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.
Circumpolar (a.) About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.
Circumposition (n.) The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed.
Circumrotary (a.) Alt. of Circumrotatory
Circumrotatory (a.) turning, rolling, or whirling round.
Circumrotate (v. t. & i.) To rotate about.
Circumrotation (n.) The act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round.
Circumscissile (a.) Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.
Circumscribable (a.) Capable of being circumscribed.
Circumscribed (imp. & p. p.) of Circumscribe
Circumscribing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circumscribe
Circumscribe (v. t.) to write or engrave around.
Circumscribe (v. t.) To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.
Circumscribe (v. t.) To draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.
Circumscriber (n.) One who, or that which, circumscribes.
Circumscriptible (a.) Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.
Circumscription (n.) An inscription written around anything.
Circumscription (n.) The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.
Circumscription (n.) The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.
Circumscriptive (a.) Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or form of.
Circumscriptively (adv.) In a limited manner.
Circumscriptly (adv.) In a literal, limited, or narrow manner.
Circumspect (a.) Attentive to all the circumstances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary.
Circumspection (n.) Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.
Circumspective (a.) Looking around every way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger.
Circumspectively (adv.) Circumspectly.
Circumspectly (adv.) In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily.
Circumspectness (n.) Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution.
Circumstance (n.) That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
Circumstance (n.) An event; a fact; a particular incident.
Circumstance (n.) Circumlocution; detail.
Circumstance (n.) Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
Circumstance (v. t.) To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.
Circumstanced (p. a.) Placed in a particular position or condition; situated.
Circumstanced (p. a.) Governed by events or circumstances.
Circumstant (a.) Standing or placed around; surrounding.
Circumstantiable (a.) Capable of being circumstantiated.
Circumstantial (a.) Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents.
Circumstantial (a.) Incidental; relating to, but not essential.
Circumstantial (a.) Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.
Circumstantial (n.) Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion.
Circumstantiality (n.) The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail.
Circumstantially (adv.) In respect to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally.
Circumstantially (adv.) In every circumstance or particular; minutely.