Dictionary entry

Center (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Cen″ter, Cen″tre } (sĕn″tẽr), v. t. 1. To place or fix in the center or on a central point. Milton.

2. To collect to a point; to concentrate.

Thy joys are centered all in me alone.

Prior.

3. (Mech.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.