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at the end of it. Dry den.- —Plain ; free without delicacy or 
reserve; almost rough. 
Let his queen mother all alone intreat him, 
To shew his griefs; let her be round with him. Shalcspeare. 
ROUND, s. A circle; a sphere; an orb. 
I’ll charm the air to give a sound, 
While you perform your antick round. Shalcspeare. 
Rundle; step of a ladder. 
When he once attains the upmost round, 
He then unto the ladder turns his back. 
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees 
By which he did ascend. Shalcspeare. 
The time in which any thing has passed through all hands, 
and comes back to the first: hence applied to a carousal. 
A gentle round fill'd to the brink, 
To this and t’other friend I drink. Suckling. 
A revolution ; a course ending at the point where it began. 
Till by one countless sum of woes opprest, 
Hoary with cares, and ignorant of rest. 
We find the vital springs relax’d and worn ; 
Compell’d our common impotence to mourn, 
Thus through the round of age, to childhood we return. 
Prior. 
Rotation; succession in vicissitude.—Such new Utopians 
would have a round of government, as some the like in the 
church, in which every spoak becomes uppermost in his 
turn. Holy day. 
[JRottr/e, Fr.j A walk performed by a guard or officer, to 
survey a certain district.—He accompanied the major of the 
regiment in going what are styled the rounds. Langton .— 
A dance; a roundelay; a song. 
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground 
In a light fantastick round. Milton. 
A general discharge of cannon or fire-aims. 
ROUND, adv. Every way; on all sides.—All sounds 
whatsoever move round; that is, on all sides, upwards, 
downwards, forwards, backwards. Bacon. —In a revolution. 
—At the best ’tis but cunning; and if he can in his own 
fancy raise that to the opinion of true wisdom, he comes 
round to practise his deceits upon himself. Gov. of the 
Tongue. —Circularly. 
One foot he center’d, and the other turn’d 
Round through the vast profundity obscure. Milton. 
Not in a direct line. 
If merely to come in. Sir, they go out; 
The way they take is strangely round about. Pope. 
ROUND, prep. On every side of.-—-To officiate light 
round this opacous earth. Milton. —About; circularly 
about. 
He led the hero round 
The confines of the blest Elysian ground. Dryden. 
All over; here and there in. 
Round the world we roam. 
Forc’d from our pleasing fields, and native home. Dryden. 
To ROUND, v. a. [rotundo, Lat.] To surround; to 
encircle. 
Would that the inclusive verge 
Of golden metal, that must round my brow, 
Were redhot steel to sear me to the brain. Shalcspeare. 
To make spherical, circular, or cylindrical.—With the 
cleaving-knife and mawl split the stuff into a square piece 
near the size, and with the draw knife round off the edges to 
make it fit for the lathe. Moxon. —To raise to a relief.—■ 
The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded 
to a very great perfection. Addison.— To move about any 
thing. 
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To those beyond the polar circle, day 
Had unbenighted shone, while the low sun, 
To recompense his distance, in your sight 
Had rounded still the horizon, and not known 
Or East or West. Milton. 
To mould into smoothness.—These accomplishments, 
applied in the pulpit, appear by a quaint, terse, florid style, 
rounded into periods and cadences, without propriety or 
meaning. Swift. 
To ROUND, v. n. To grow round in form. 
The queen, your mother, rounds apace; we shall 
Present our services to a fine new prince. Sha/cspeare. 
To whisper.—Being come to the supping place, one of 
Kalander’s servants rounded in his ear; at which he retired. 
Sidney. —To go rounds, as a guard. 
They- 
Keep watch, or nightly rounding walk. Milton. 
To ROUND, v. a. To address in a whisper. A cor¬ 
ruption of roun .—Cicero was at dinner, when an ancient 
lady said she was but forty: one that sat by rounded him 
in the ear, she is far more out of question: Cicero answered, 
I must believe her, for I heard her say so any time these ten 
years. Bacon. 
ROUND BAY, a bay with good anchorage, on the west 
coast of St. Lucia. 
ROUND HILL, an island in the North Pacific ocean, 
near the east coast of Labrador. Lat. 53. 25. N. long.55. 
16. W. 
ROUND HILL BLUFF, a cape on the north coast of 
Jamaica, west of Montego bay. Lat. IS. 29. N. long. 77. 
58. W. 
ROUND ISLAND, an island in Bristol bay, on the west 
coast of North America, so called by Captain Cook, from its 
figure. It lies in lat. 58. 37. N. long. 200. 6. E. and is 
seven miles from the continent. 
ROUND ISLAND, a small island near the east coast of 
Borneo, in the bay of Gunong Tellu. Lat. 0. 28. S. long. 
123. 30. E. 
ROUND KEY, a small island near the coast of West 
Florida, or the Mississippi state, according to the new di¬ 
vision of the country by the government of the United 
States. 
ROUND LICK, a post village of the United States, in 
■Smith county, Tennessee. 
ROUND ROCK, one of the smaller Virgin islands, in the 
Atlantic ocean. Lat. 18. 10. N. long. 62. 52. W. 
ROUND TABLE, the circular table at which the knights 
of old, who assembled together from the different countries 
to perform the martial exercises of the tournament, were 
accustomed to eat, on such occasions, to prevent disputes 
about precedency. Such a table is seen fixed to the eastern 
wall of the county-hall at Winchester, being vulgularly 
called “ Arthur’s Round Table,” though it does not appear 
to be more ancient than the reign of king Stephen. From 
the use to which these tables were appropriated, the diversion 
itself of the tournament, or tilting, was called the Round Table. 
“ Ulustris miles, Rogerus de Mortuo-mari apud Kenilworth 
ludum militarem quern vocant rotundam tabulam centum 
militum ac tot dominarum constituit.” Th. Walsinshatn. 
Hist. 
ROUND TOP, a peak of the Catskill mountains, in New 
York. Height 3804 feet. 
ROUNDA, a town of Hindostan, province of Khandeish, 
situated on the east side of the Ghirah river, belonging to the 
Mahrattas. Lat. 20. 54. N. long. 75. 47. E. 
ROU'NDABOUT, adj. Ample; extensive.—Those sin¬ 
cerely follow reason, but for want of having large, sound, 
roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to 
the question. Locke. —Indirect; loose.—Paraphrase is a 
roundabout way of translating, invented to help the bar¬ 
renness, which translators, overlooking in themselves, have 
apprehended in our tongue. Felton. 
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