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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.

 

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