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Volume 8 · 40 words · 1860 Edition

Fr. from cingere, to gird), in Fortification, the interior wall or rampart which surrounds a place; sometimes composed of bastions or curtains, and sometimes only flanked by towers, which is called a Roman wall.

Enchantment. See Divination; Magic; Demon; Witchcraft.