Word Meanings - ENCIRCLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A small circle; a ring. Sir P. Sidney.
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- CIRCLED
Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - CIRCLE
An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle. Note: When it is fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - SMALL
sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity - CIRCLET
1. A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband. Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled. Spenser. 2. A round body; an orb. Pope. Fairest of stars . . . - SMALLAGE
A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery. - SMALLY
In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham. - CIRCLER
A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. B. Jonson. - SMALLNESS
The quality or state of being small. - SMALLS
See 3 - SMALLSWORD
A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - INCIRCLE
See ENCIRCLE - PARQUET CIRCLE
That part of the lower floor of a theater with seats at the rear of the parquet and beneath the galleries; -- called also, esp. in U. S., orchestra circle or parterre. - DRESS CIRCLE
A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn. - ABYSMALLY
To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot. - ENCIRCLE
To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city. Her brows encircled with his serpent rod. Parnell. Syn. -- To encompass; surround; environ; inclose. - SEMICIRCLE
The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference. A semicircumference. 2. A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference. 3. An instrument for measuring angles. - INCIRCLET
A small circle. Sir P. Sidney. - ENCIRCLET
A small circle; a ring. Sir P. Sidney.