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Cy"cle (s?"k'l), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Cycled. (-k'ld);
p. pr. & vb. n. Cycling (-kl&?;ng).]
1. To pass through a cycle of changes; to
recur in cycles. Tennyson. Darwin.

2. To ride a bicycle, tricycle, or other
form of cycle.

{ Cyc"lic (s?k"l?k or s?"kl?k), Cyc"lic*al
(s?k"l?-kal), } a. [Cf. F.
cycluque, Gr. kykliko`s, fr. ky`klos
See Cycle.] Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle;
moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.
Coleridge.

Cyclic chorus, the chorus which
performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens,
dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle. --
Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who
followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its
heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a
single subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on
one subject. Milman.

Cy"clide (s?"kl?d), n. [Gr.
ky`klos circle.] (Geom.) A surface of the
fourth degree, having certain special relations to spherical
surfaces.


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