round 
One of the quietest, but, all round, one of the brainiest 
merchants and financiers in the United States. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 241. 
Luff round. See luff;-'. Round about. (<i) [About, adv. ] 
(1) In an opposite direction ; with reversed position ; so 
as to face the other way. 
She 's turned her richt and round about, 
And the kembe fell frae her nan'. 
Lady Maifry (Child's Ballads, II. 82). 
(2) All around ; in every direction. 
When he giveth you rest from all your enemies round 
about, so that ye dwell in safety. Deut. xii. 10. 
Sound about are like Tombes for his wiues and children, 
but not so great and faire. Purchai, Pilgrimage, p. 288. 
On the other side . . . stood a great square Tower, and 
round about the rubbish of many other Buildings. 
Maundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 17. 
(&) [About, prep.] On every side of; all round. 
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark 
waters, and thick clouds of the skies. 2 Sam. xxii. 12. 
The skins hanging round about his head, backe, and 
shoulders. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's True Travels, I. 161. 
And hears the Muses In a ring 
Aye round about Jove's altar sing. 
Milton, II Penseroso, 1. 48. 
To bring round. See bring. 
"What's the matter, Mother?" said I, when we had 
brought her a little round. Dickens, Little Don-It, i. 2. 
To come round. See come. 
Be was about as glib-tongued a Jacobin as you'd wish to 
see ; but now my young man has come round handsomely. 
//. /;. Stowe, c PI c It 1 1 ii. p. 495. 
To fly, get, go. turn round. See the verbs. To pass 
round the fiat. See i/mi. 
II. prep. 1. On every side of; surrounding; 
encircling: as, the people stood round him; to 
put a rope round a post. 
thou, my love, whose love is one with mine, 
I, maiden, round thee, maiden, bind my belt. 
Tennyson, Holy GraiL 
2. Circuitously about : as, a ramble round the 
park ; to sail round Cape Horn ; a journey round 
the world. 
He led the hero round 
The confines of the blest Elysian ground. 
Dryden, .Eneid, vi. 1227. 
The successful expedition round Cape Bojador, being 
soon spread abroad through Europe, excited a spirit of 
adventure in all foreigners. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 99. 
To come round, get round, etc. See the verbs. 
round 1 (round), r. [= IX rondeii, round, = G. 
r unden, become round, riindcn, make round, = 
Sw. rundu = Dan. runde, make round, = F. 
rondir, become round; from the adj. (in defs. 
I., 4, 5, and II., 2, 3, 5, rather from the adverb) : 
see round 1 , a., round 1 , adv. 2 .'] I. trans. 1. To 
give roundness or rotundity to; make circu- 
lar, spherical, cylindrical, conical, convex, or 
curved ; form with a round or curved outline : 
as, to round the edges of anything; the rounded 
corners of a piano or of a book. 
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads. 
Lev. xix. 27. 
The figures on several of our modem medals are raised 
and rounded to a very great perfection. 
Addison, Ancient Medals, iii. 
Bull, the dog, lies routuled on the hearth, his nose be- 
tween his paws, fast asleep. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 17. 
Remains of Roman architecture . . . controlled the 
minds of artists, and induced them to adopt the rounded 
rather than the pointed arch. 
J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 101. 
2. To fill out roundly or symmetrically ; com- 
plete or perfect in form or substance. 
A quaint, terse, florid style, rounded into periods and 
cadencies. Swift, Misc. 
General ideas are essences; they are our gods; they 
round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of liv- 
in K- Emerson, Nominalist and Realist. 
He has lived to round a personality that will be tradi- 
tional. Stedman, Poets of America, p. 302. 
3. To fill out the circle or term of; bring to 
completion; finish off. 
We are such stuff 
As dreams are made on, and our little life 
Is rounded with a sleep. Shak. , Tempest, iv. 1. 168. 
I like your picture, but I fain would see 
A sketch of what your promised land will be 
The twentieth century rounds a new decade. 
Whittur, The Panorama. 
4. To encircle ; encompass ; surround. 
Am I not he that rules great Nineveh, 
Rounded with Lycas' silver-flowing streams? 
Greene and Lodge, Looking Glass for Lond. and Eng. 
I would to God that the inclusive verge 
Of golden metal that must round my brow 
Were red-hot steel. Shak., Rich. III., iv. 1. 60. 
With garlands of great pearl his brow 
Begirt and rounded. 
Fletcher (and another), False One, Hi. 4. 
5. To go, pass, or get round; make a course 
the 
5244 
rounded Cape Horn; to round the corner of a 
street To round down, to overhaul downward, as a 
rope or tackle. To round In, or round in on (naut.), to 
haul in the slack of : as, to round in a rope ; to round in 
on a weather-brace. To round off. (a) To finish off in a 
curved or rounded form ; give a rounding finish to : as, to 
round off the corners of a table or a marble slab. See 
round-of file, under file*, (b) To finish completely; bring 
into a completed or perfected state. 
Just as little in the course of its development in time 
as in space is the body rounded off into strict unity. 
Lobe, Microcosmos (trans.), I. 136. 
Positive science, like common-sense, treats objects as 
rounded-o/ totals, as "absolutes." Mind, XLL 124. 
To round out. (a) To expand, distend, or fill out in a 
rounded form : as, a paunch or a bust well rounded out. 
(6) To fill out symmetrically or completely : as, to round 
out a speech with apt illustrations. To round to, to haul 
by the wind when sailing free ; bring (a vessel) head up to 
the wind preparatory to letting go the anchor. To round 
up. (a) To heap or fill up so as to make round at top : as, 
to round up a measure of grain, (b) In grazing regions, 
to drive or bring together In close order : as, to round up 
a scattered herd of cattle, (c) Xaut., to haul up, as the 
slack of a rope through its leading-block, ora tackle which 
hangs loose ny its fall. (<J) To scold or reprove roundly ; 
bring to account 
II. intrans. 1. To grow or become round; 
acquire curvature, plumpness, roundness, or 
rounded bigness. 
The queen your mother rounds apace. 
Skat., W. T., U. 1. 16. 
All the jarring notes of life 
Seem blending in a psalm, 
And all the angles of the strife 
Slow rounding into calm. 
Whittier, My Psalm. 
The fair pink blooms . . . gave way to small green 
spheres rounding daily to full-orbed fruit. 
R. T. Cooke, Somebody's Neighbors, p. 217. 
2. To go round about; make a circuit; go the 
rounds, as a guard. 
While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk. 
Milton, P. L., tv. 685. 
So rounds he to a separate mind, 
From whence clear memory may begin. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, xlv. 
The stream goes rounding away through the sward, 
bending somewhat to the right, where the ground grad- 
ually descends. The Century, XXXVI. 806. 
3. To turn around or about ; make a turn. 
The men who met him rounded on their heels, 
And wonder'd after him. 
Tennyson, Pelleas and Ettarre. 
4. To become full or finished; develop into a 
completed or perfected type : as, the girl rounds 
into the woman. 5. To bend or turn down- 
ward, as a whale; make ready to dive, as a 
whale, by curving its small. Also round out. 
To round On, to turn upon or against ; abase ; assail ; 
beset : as, he rounded on me In a rage. 
round 2 (round), . [With excrescent d, as in 
sound, pound?, etc.; < ME. rounen, rownen, ru- 
nen, < AS. r&nian (= OD. rftnen, MD. ruinen, 
ruynen = OLG. rundn = OHG. runen, MHG. 
runen, G. raunen, > OF. runer), whisper, mur- 
mur, < run, mystery: see runel.] I.t intrans. 
To speak low; whisper; speak secretly; take 
counsel. 
The steward on knees him set adown, 
With the emperour for to roien. 
Richard Coer de Lion (Weber's Metr. Rom., II. 84). 
Another rouiied to his felawe lowe. 
Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 208. 
II. trans. To address or speak to in a whis- 
per ; utter in a whisper. 
One rounded another in the ear, and said "Erat dives," 
He was a rich man : a great fault. 
Latimer, 6th Sermon bet. Edw. VI., 1549. 
They 're here with me already, whispering, rounding, 
"Sicilia is a so-forth." Shak., W. T., i. 2. 217. 
At the same time he [April Fool] slyly rounded the first 
lady in the ear that an action might lie against the Crown 
for bi-geny. Lamb, On the New-Year's Coming of Age. 
How often must I round thee in the ears 
All means are lawful to a lawful end ? 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 104. 
round 2 t, [< ME. roun, < AS. run, a whisper, 
secret, mystery: see round?, r., and runel.] A 
whisper or whispering; discourse; song. 
ix. and nigneti ger he [Abraham] was old, 
Qnnaune him cam bode [message] in sunder [diverse] run, 
Fro gode of circumcicioun. 
Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 991. 
roundabout (round'a-bout"), a. and n. [< round 
about, adverbial phrase: see round 1 , adr., and 
about, adv.] I. a. 1. Circuitous; tortuous; in- 
direct. 
Girls have always a round-about way of saying yes before 
company. Goldsmith, Good-natured Man, ii. 
The inferences of political economy are true only because 
they are discoveries by a roundabout process of what the 
moral law commands. H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 502. 
round-armed 
Those sincerely follow reason, but, for want of having 
large, sound, roundabout sense, have not a full view of all 
that relates to the question. 
Locke, Human Understanding. 
3. Encircling; surrounding; encompassing. 
Tatler. (Imp. Diet.) 
II. n. 1. A large horizontal revolving frame, 
carrying small wooden horses and carriages, 
sometimes elephants, etc., on or in which 
children ride; a merry-go-round. 2. A round 
dance. 
The Miss Flamboroughs . . . understood the jig and 
the roundabout to perfection. Goldsmith, Vicar, ix. 1. 
3. A scene of incessant revolution, change, or 
vicissitude. [Rare.] 
He sees that this great roundabout, 
The world, with all its motley rout, 
Church, army, physic, law, 
Its customs, and its bus'nesses, 
Is no concern at all of his, 
And says what says he ? " Caw ! " 
Cowper, The Jackdaw (trans.). 
4. An arm-chair with rounded back and sides. 
5. A short coat or jacket for men and boys, 
without skirts, which fits the body closely. 
Also round jacket. 
He sauntered about the streets in a plain linen round- 
about. The Century, XXV. 176. 
6. A cyclonic storm. [Bermudas.] 
roundaboutly (round'a-bout'li), adv, [< round- 
about, a., + -ly%.~] In a roundabout manner; 
circuitously; indirectly. i[Rare.] 
He said it much more lengthily and roundaboutly. 
R. Brout/hton, Joan, 1. 
roundaboutness (round 'a-boufnes), n. [< 
roundabout, a., + -ness.] Circuitousness of 
course or manner; the quality of being round- 
about or tortuous. [Bare.] 
Coleridge's prose writings have the same "vice of round- 
aboutneti, " as Southey called it, as his talk, but without 
its charm ; the same endless interpolations, digressions, 
and apologies with the same superabundance of long, 
strange, and hard words. Quarterly Rev., CXLV. 77. 
round-all (round'al), n. An acrobatic feat. 
See the quotation. 
Doing . . . round-alls (that 's throwing yourself back- 
wards on to your hands and back again to your feet). 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, III. 104. 
round-arched (round'areht), a. In arc*., char- 
acterized by semicircular arches, as a style or 
a building, as ancient Roman, Byzantine, Ro- 
round the limit or terminus of: as, the ship 2. Comprehensive; taking a wide range. 
Round-arched Construction. A pier with perspective of nave, aisle, 
and vaulting of the Abbey Church of Vezelay, France. 
manesque, and other construction, and the edi- 
fices in those styles; also, having the form of 
a round arch, as an architectural member. 
The transverse ribs [choir of Noyon Cathedral] alone 
are pointed, and the round-arched longitudinal ribs are 
. . . much stilted. 
C. B. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 49. 
round-arm (round'arm), a. In cricket, swing- 
ing the arm round more or less horizontally, 
or done with the arm so used: as, a round-arm 
bowler; round-arm bowling. Eneyc. Diet. 
round-armed (roumd'tond), a. In boxing, given 
with a horizontal swing of the arm. 
And the clumsy round-armed hit, even though it does 
more harm to the recipient, is not esteemed so highly as 
a straight hit made directly from the shoulder. 
Saturday Rev., No. 1474. 
