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Circumgyratory :: Circumgyratory (a.) Moving in a circle; turning round.

Circ :: Circ (n.) An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.

Compass :: Compass (v. t.) To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about..

Circle :: Circle (n.) Compass; circuit; inclosure.

Circlet :: Circlet (n.) A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table.

Zone :: Zone (v. t.) To girdle; to encircle.

Symmetry :: Symmetry (n.) Equality in the number of parts of the successive circles in a flower.

Semicircle :: Semicircle (n.) An instrument for measuring angles.

Segment :: Segment (n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration..

Lapwing :: Lapwing (n.) A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the plover's eggs of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea..

Unity :: Unity (n.) Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity..

Incenter :: Incenter (n.) The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle.

Circuit :: Circuit (n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown..

Almacantar :: Almacantar (n.) A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.

Circumference :: Circumference (n.) A circle; anything circular.

Cone :: Cone (n.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex..

Round :: Round (adv.) Through a circle, as of friends or houses..

Sabella :: Sabella (n.) A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head.

Meridian :: Meridian (a.) A great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place; also, the half of such a circle included between the poles..

Compass :: Compass (n.) A circle; a continent.

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