a. rare. [f. L. circum + gȳr-us a whirl, a wheel + -AL: cf. next.] In circling wreaths or whirls.

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1755.  in Lit. Gaz. (1818), 24 Oct., 687/2. Here are sold all sorts of Trochiliæ, Horadixos; some circumgyral by internal elators, some by external appended pondera; some linguacular, and some taciturnal.

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1873.  W. S. Mayo, Never Again, xxiv. 315.

        No more, no more, the circumgyral smoke
Shall tuneful Bigger's mighty wrath provoke.

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