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▪ I. circling, vbl. n.|ˈsɜːklɪŋ|
[f. circle v.]
1. Formation of a circle or circles.
b. quasi-concr. A circular formation.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xiii, Within the cerclynge of her eyen bryght was paradise. 1646A. Henderson in Macrie Life (1846) 54 While Archimedes was drawing his figures and circlings in the sand. 1818Keats Endymion iv. 340 Diving swans appear Above the crystal circlings white and clear.
2. Movement in a circle; revolution.
c1440Promp. Parv. 453/2 Serclynge, Circulacio. 1622–62Heylyn Cosmogr. i. (1682) 266 In the circlings of the foresaid River. 1864Glasg. Daily Herald 24 Sept., I don't see how circling with the trawl among drift-nets should do any harm. 1877L. Morris Epic Hades iii. 270 The circling of the suns.
†3. = circuition 2.
1623W. Sclater Tythes Revised 9 Say if you can without circling.
▪ II. ˈcircling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Encircling.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. iv. 19 Her two branches..Whose circkling shadowes, Kings haue sought to sleep in. c1611Chapman Iliad xi. (R.), Their world circling sire, Great Neptune. 1701De Foe True-born Eng. ii. 400 He dwelt in Bright Maria's Circling Arms. 1877Furnivall Leopold Shaks. Introd. 117 See the town nestle under its circling hills.
b. Forming a circle; ranged in a circle.
1724–7Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. Ded., Treat a' the circling lugs wi' sound. 1733Swift On Poetry, To whom the tribe of circling wits As to an oracle submits. 1799Southey Sonn. x, Scarce doth..The elder yet its circling tufts put forth. 1841Clough Early Poems vii. 109 My station whence the circling land Lies mapped and pictured wide below.
2. Moving in a circle; revolving.
1599Porter Angry Wom. Abingd. (1841) 43 Ile in these meddowes make a cerckling walke. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. Introd. 11 How circling Motion doth swift time divide. 1671Milton P.R. v. 55 Now, too soon for us, the circling hours This dreaded time have compassed. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 7 Thou merriest soul That ever loved the circling bowl!
†3. circling boy: ‘a species of roarer; one who in some way drew a man into a snare, to cheat or rob him’ (Nares). Obs. slang.
1614B. Jonson Barth. Fair iv. ii, One Val Cutting that helps..Jordan to roar, a circling boy. |