Circumferentor () 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 360Â¡, 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 () A graduated wheel for measuring tires; a tire circle.

Circumflant () Blowing around.

Circumflected () of Circumflect

Circumflecting () of Circumflect

Circumflect () To bend around.

Circumflect () To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel.

Circumflection () See Circumflexion.

Circumflex () A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.

Circumflex () 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 () of Circumflex

Circumflexing () of Circumflex

Circumflex () To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.

Circumflex () Moving or turning round; circuitous.

Circumflex () 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 () The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.

Circumflexion () A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.

Circumfluence () A flowing round on all sides; an inclosing with a fluid.

Circumfluent () Alt. of Circumfluous

Circumfluous () Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid.

Circumforanean () Alt. of Circumforaneous

Circumforaneous () Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house.

Circumfulgent () Shining around or about.

Circumfuse () To pour round; to spread round.

Circumfusile () Capable of being poured or spread round.

Circumfusion () The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round.

Circumgestation () The act or process of carrying about.

Circumgyrate () To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion.

Circumgyration () The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round.

Circumgyratory () Moving in a circle; turning round.

Circumgyre () To circumgyrate.

Circumincession () The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.

Circumjacence () Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering on every side.

Circumjacent () Lying round; bordering on every side.

Circumjovial () One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter.

Circumlittoral () Adjointing the shore.

Circumlocution () The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.

Circumlocutional () Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.

Circumlocutory () Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic.

Circummeridian () About, or near, the meridian.

Circummure () To encompass with a wall.

Circumnavigable () Capable of being sailed round.

Circumnavigated () of Circumnavigate

Circumnavigating () of Circumnavigate

Circumnavigate () To sail completely round.

Circumnavigation () The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.

Circumnavigator () One who sails round.

Circumnutate () To pass through the stages of circumnutation.

Circumnutation () The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

Circumpolar () About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.

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