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Compasses :: Compasses (n.) An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move..

Limb :: Limb (n.) The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles..

Quadrantal :: Quadrantal (a.) Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; as, quadrantal space..

Scalloped :: Scalloped (a.) Having the edge or border cut or marked with segments of circles. See Scallop, n., 2..

Magical :: Magical (a.) Performed by, or proceeding from, occult and superhuman agencies; done by, or seemingly done by, enchantment or sorcery. Hence: Seemingly requiring more than human power; imposing or startling in performance; producing effects which seem supernatural or very extraordinary; having extraordinary properties; as, a magic lantern; a magic square or circle..

Twist :: Twist (v. t.) To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.

Orb :: Orb (v. t.) To encircle; to surround; to inclose.

Roundelay :: Roundelay (n.) A dance in a circle.

Coincidence :: Coincidence (n.) The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc..

Sine :: Sine (n.) The length of a perpendicular drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through the other extremity.

Round :: Round (prep.) On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable round a windlass..

Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To surround; to encircle, or encompass..

Circlet :: Circlet (n.) A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table.

Supplemented :: Supplement (v. t.) The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180¡; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle..

Azimuthal :: Azimuthal (a.) Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.

Ringlet :: Ringlet (n.) A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring..

Equator :: Equator (n.) The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line..

Axis :: Axis (n.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center..

Revolution :: Revolution (n.) The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere..

Surround :: Surround (v. t.) To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city..

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