n. A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable. A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked. See Accent, n.
- vb. To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
- adj. Moving or turning round; circuitous. (Anat.) Curved circularly; - applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.