 2 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Circle \Cir"cle\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Circled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Circling}.] [OE. cerclen, F. cercler, fr. L. circulare to
make round. See {Circle}, noun, and cf. {Circulate}.]
1. To move around; to revolve around.
Other planets circle other suns. --Pope.
2. To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to
encircle. --Prior. Pope.
Their heads are circled with a short turban.
--Dampier.
So he lies, circled with evil. --Coleridge.
{To circle in}, to confine; to hem in; to keep together; as,
to circle bodies in. --Sir K. Digby.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "circling":
alternate, ambient, beating, cincture, circuition, circuitousness,
circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambience,
circumambiency, circumambient, circumambulation, circumcincture,
circumferential, circumflex, circumflexion, circumfluent,
circumfluous, circumjacence, circumjacent, circumlocution,
circummigration, circumnavigation, circumposition, containment,
cyclic, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression,
embracement, embracing, encincture, encirclement, encircling,
enclosing, enclosure, encompassing, encompassment, enfolding,
enfoldment, enveloping, envelopment, environing, environment,
epochal, even, every other, excursion, excursus, girding, girdling,
gyre, gyring, inclusion, indirection, intermittent, involvement,
isochronal, meandering, measured, metronomic, neighboring, orbit,
orbiting, oscillatory, periodical, peripheral, pulsing, reciprocal,
recurrent, recurring, rhythmic, rotary, roundabout, roundaboutness,
rounding, seasonal, serial, spiral, spiraling, steady, suburban,
surrounding, turn, turning, undulant, undulatory, wavelike,
wheeling, wrapping
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