Circumscribe

1. v. t. To draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.
2. v. t. to write or engrave around.
3. v. t. To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.

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.