{Middle English cercle from old French, from Latin circulus} circle- a plane curve everywhere equidistant from a given fixed point, the center
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a dialect of Middle English
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a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans a
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a dialect of Middle English s
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In the Middle English period, it was little employed except with verbs, being chiefly used with past participles, though occasionally with the infinitive Ycleped, or yclept, is perhaps the only word not entirely obsolete which shows this use.