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Definition of Encircling
1. Adjective. Being all around the edges; enclosing. "The room's skirting board needs painting"
Definition of Encircling
1. Adjective. enclosing, skirting ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of encircle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Encircling
1. encircle [v] - See also: encircle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encircling
Literary usage of Encircling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"Having now studied the movements of tendrils which result from a temporary contact,
let us turn next to problems connected with the actual encircling of the ..."
2. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"The wave, the blue encircling wave, No chains can bind, no fetters hold; Its
thunders tell of Him who gave What ..."
3. Physical Geography by Mary Somerville, Henry Walter Bates (1870)
"Different kinds of coral formations; atolls or lagoon islands; encircling reefs;
barrier reefs; coral reefs. § 2. Areas of subsidence and elevation in the ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1834)
"The encircling beauty of the grace of Heaven. In listening to their gossip and
amours. She with her sex ne'er spends the precious hours Thrice happy they ..."
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