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Circumvallate
() Surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue.
Circumvallation
() The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.
Circumvallation
() A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.
Circumvection
() The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.
Circumvented
() of Circumvent
Circumventing
() of Circumvent
Circumvent
() To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
Circumvention
() The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
Circumventive
() Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.
Circumventor
() One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
Circumvest
() To cover round, as with a garment; to invest.
Circumvolant
() Flying around.
Circumvolation
() The act of flying round.
Circumvolution
() The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.
Circumvolution
() A thing rolled round another.
Circumvolution
() A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.
Circumvolved
() of Circumvolve
Circumvolving
() of Circumvolve
Circumvolve
() To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.
Circumvolve
() To roll round; to revolve.
Circuses
() of Circus
Circus
() A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.
Circus
() A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.
Circus
() Circuit; space; inclosure.
Cirl bunting
() A European bunting (Emberiza cirlus).
Cirque
() A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.
Cirque
() A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.
Cirrate
() Having cirri along the margin of a part or organ.
Cirrhiferous
() See Cirriferous.
Cirrhose
() Same as Cirrose.
Cirrhosis
() A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ.
Cirrhotic
() Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.
Cirrhous
() See Cirrose.
Cirrhus
() Same as Cirrus.
Cirri
() See Cirrus.
Cirriferous
() Bearing cirri, as many plants and animals.
Cirriform
() Formed like a cirrus or tendril; -- said of appendages of both animals and plants.
Cirrigerous
() Having curled locks of hair; supporting cirri, or hairlike appendages.
Cirrigrade
() Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages.
Cirriped
() One of the Cirripedia.
Cirripedia
() An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.
Cirrobranchiata
() A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.
Cirro-cumulus
() See under Cloud.
Cirrose
() Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.
Cirrose
() Resembling a tendril or cirrus.
Cirrostomi
() The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.
Cirro-stratus
() See under Cloud.
Cirrous
() Cirrose.
Cirrous
() Tufted; -- said of certain feathers of birds.
Cirri
() of Cirrus