1. Surrounded as with, a circle; = ENCIRCLED.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 3408. A sadill serklyt with golde.
1593. Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., IV. viii. 21. Modest Dyan, circled with her Nymphs.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph.
| Her circled Head you might behold | |
| Was glorify’d with burnisht Crown of Gold. |
1793. Southey, Lyric Poems, Race Banquo. Boldly tread the circled space.
1862. R. Patterson, Ess. Hist. & Art, 393. Beneath this circled figure.
2. Marked with a circle or circles.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 59. Their horns wax more circled as they grow in years, although I dare not affirm that every circle betokeneth a years growth.
1712–4. Pope, Rape Lock, I. 32. Or airy Elves … the circled green.
1845. Talfourd, Vac. Rambles, I. 236. The circled turf is such as fairies would choose for their revels.
3. Rounded; circular.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, IV. 48. In circled sort it [muscle] springeth from the Jugall bone.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., II. ii. 110. The Moone … That monethly changes in her circled Orbe.
1635. Swan, Spec. M., i. § 1 (1643), 1. The circled orbs.
1865. Swinburne, Poems & Ball., Felise, 92. Like a cat’s splendid circled eyes.
