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Circumduct: Definition and part of speech

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Circumduct

  1. v. t. To contravene; to nullify; as, to circumduct acts of judicature.
  2. v. t. To lead about; to lead astray.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Circumduction: Definition and part of speech

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Circumduction

  1. n. The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface.
  2. n. A leading about; circumlocution.
  3. n. An annulling; cancellation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Circumesophagal: Definition and part of speech

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Circumesophagal

  1. a. Surrounding the esophagus; — in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Circumference: Definition and part of speech

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Circumference

  1. v. t. To include in a circular space; to bound.
  2. n. The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery.
  3. n. A circle; anything circular.
  4. n. The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Circumferential: Definition and part of speech

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Circumferential

  1. a. Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Circumferentor: Definition and part of speech

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Circumferentor

  1. n. A graduated wheel for measuring tires; a tire circle.
  2. n. A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor’s compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360¡, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Circumcise: Definition and part of speech

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Circumcise

  1. v. t. To purify spiritually.
  2. v. t. To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.