v. Obs. Also -gire. [f. CIRCUM- + L. gȳr-āre to turn round, go round.]
1. trans. To ‘go round,’ encompass. rare.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., II. (1882), 68. Precincts … circumgired and limited about with bounds and marks.
2. trans. To cause to turn round or revolve.
1635. Heywood, Hierarch., V. 274. As this Orbe is Circumgyr’d and wheel’d.
3. intr. To turn round like a wheel; to revolve; to make circuits, wind about, circle.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 43 (T.). A sweet River … after 20 little miles circumgyring or playing to and fro,… discharges it self into the Ocean.
1635. Heywood, Hierarch., VI. 332. The Mill, that circumgyreth fast.
1657. S. Purchas, Pol. Flying-Ins., II. 295. In many circumgiring motions, and circling vagaries.
1680. Morden, Geog. Rect. (1688), 398.
