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.

Cir"cle, v. i. To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate.

Thy name shall circle round the gaping through.

Byron.

Cir"cled (?), a. Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak.

Cir"cler (?), n. 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. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Cir"clet (?), n. 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.

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