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Circulate
() To pass from place to place, from person to person, or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates.
Circulate
() To cause to pass from place to place, or from person to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit.
Circulation
() The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
Circulation
() The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
Circulation
() Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
Circulation
() The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.
Circulation
() The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
Circulative
() Promoting circulation; circulating.
Circulator
() One who, or that which, circulates.
Circulatorious
() Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant.
Circulatory
() Circular; as, a circulatory letter.
Circulatory
() Circulating, or going round.
Circulatory
() Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory diseases.
Circulatory
() A chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.
Circulet
() A circlet.
Circuline
() Proceeding in a circle; circular.
Circum-
() A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words, and signifying around or about.
Circumagitate
() To agitate on all sides.
Circumambage
() A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness.
Circumambiency
() The act of surrounding or encompassing.
Circumambient
() Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.
Circumambulate
() To walk round about.
Circumbendibus
() A roundabout or indirect way.
Circumcenter
() The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.
Circumcised
() of Circumcise
Circumcising
() of Circumcise
Circumcise
() To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.
Circumcise
() To purify spiritually.
Circumciser
() One who performs circumcision.
Circumcision
() The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.
Circumcision
() The Jews, as a circumcised people.
Circumcision
() Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith.
Circumclusion
() Act of inclosing on all sides.
Circumcursation
() The act of running about; also, rambling language.
Circumdenudation
() Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object.
Circumduce
() To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence.
Circumduct
() To lead about; to lead astray.
Circumduct
() To contravene; to nullify; as, to circumduct acts of judicature.
Circumduction
() A leading about; circumlocution.
Circumduction
() An annulling; cancellation.
Circumduction
() The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface.
Circumesophagal
() Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.
Circumesophageal
() Circumesophagal.
Circumfer
() To bear or carry round.
Circumference
() The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery.
Circumference
() A circle; anything circular.
Circumference
() The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body.
Circumference
() To include in a circular space; to bound.
Circumferential
() Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.
Circumferentially
() So as to surround or encircle.