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About
ABOUT', prep. [Gr. butan, without, [see but,] literally, around, on the outside.]
1. Around; on the exterior part or surface.
Bind them about thy neck. Prov 3:3. Isa. l. Hence,
2. Near to in place, with the sense of circularity.
Get you up from about the tabernacle. Num 16.
3. Near to in time.
He went out about the third hour. Mat 21:3.
4. Near to, in action, or near to the performance of some act.
Paul was about to open his mouth.
They were about to flee out of the ship. Acts 28:14 - 28:30.
5. Near to the person; appended to the clothes. Every thing about him is in order. Is your snuff box about you? From nearness on all sides, the transition is easy to a concern with. Hence,
6. Concerned in, engaged in, relating to, respecting.
I must be about my father's business. Luke 2:49. The painter is not to take so much pains about the drapery as about the face
What is he about?
7. In compass or circumference; two yards about the trunk.
ABOUT', adv.
1. Near to in number or quantity.
There fell that day about three thousand men. Exo 32.
2. Near to in quality or degree; as about as high, or as cold.
3. Here and there; around; in one place and another.
Wandering about from house to house. 1 Tim 5.
4. round, or the longest way, opposed to across, or the shortest way. A mile about, and half a mile across.
To bring about, to bring to the end; to effect or accomplish a purpose.
To come about, to change or turn; to come to the desired point. In a like sense, seamen say go about, when a ship changes her course and goes on the other tack.
Ready about, about ship, are orders for tacking.
To go about, signifies to enter upon; also to prepare; to seek the means.
Why go ye about to kill me. John 7.
about appears in definitions for these words:
Abassi Abassis About Acetabulum Acherset Acontias Acre Acroter Adarcon Adders-grass Adeb Adessenarians Admonish Ado Advocate After Age Agoing Aguapecaca Albatros Alcaic Alcedo Alee Algum Alive All Alleveur Alligator Almucantar Alquier Altin Am Amb Ambe Ambi Ambient Ambit Ambition Ambulation Ambustion Amend America Amice Ammodyte Amore Amphibia Amphibial Amphitheater Amphora Amplexicaul Amputate Anaca Anchovy Anent Aneurism Anfractuous Anker Annular Antinomian Antiochian Anxious Apostolics Aquarius Arcboutant Aries Arise Aristotelian Ark Armings Around Arpent Arundelian Asian Asper Assassins Astrite Atche Attar Axis Axolote Azote Bagpipe Ballatoon Band Bandy Barbel Barracada Barracuda Baryta Bass Battery Bazat Be Bead Bead-tree Beak Bean Beat Bell-metal Bellows-fish Bernardins Bethlehem Betumbled Biarmian Bib Bicauda Bidon Big Biggin Bilander Bison Bit Black-faced Blackness Blazon Blend Bless Blindworm Blink Blue-fish Boitiapo Bomb Bone Bonnet Bosom Botetto Brace Brass Bridegroom Bring Bull Bull-head Busy Buy Cabos Cacao Camlet Cant Canvass Canvasser Capelan Caperer Caponniere Carcass Care Career Careful Careless Carrows Carthaginian Cartouch Cast Cat-head Catacomb Catling Caused Center Chaffer Chain Chapbook Cherry Chew Chistianity Chomer Chop Christmas-rose Chrysoberyl Churnworm Cicisbeism Cicisbeo Cipher Circle Circulate Circumambient Circumambulate Circumcursation Circumduction Circumforanean Circumgestation Circumpolar Circumvection Cirl Close Coal-fish Cocoa Cohort Come Comet Compass Compose Condor Cone Conoid Contend Contention Controversy Conversant Converse Coot Coral Cord Corposant Counterpoise Country Courses Crane Cravat Crawl Creep Croches Crow Cuckoo-spit Culmiferous Cumber Curious Cursory Curtain Cycloid Dabble Dance Dancing Dandling Dangle Dangler Daric Dart Dawn Deal Deferent Dentato-sinuate Depth Devour Diadrom Dine Dinner Diomede Discursion Discursive Dish Dispace Dispute Domain Dominican Double-tongued Downlying Drag Dragon-fish Draw Drop Ducatoon Ear Earth Eel Elephant Ellipsoid Ember-goose Emerods Empale Encamp Enchant Entrochite Epha Equinoctial Equinox Ergot Err Errant Errantry Erratic Escurial Espalier Espy Establish Estivation Event Exact Fairy Fakir Fall Fanon Fawn Fence Ferret Fetch Feverish Fiddle-faddle Field-colors Field-staff Fieldfare Fillet Flambeau Flaunt Flesh Flirt Flirting Floren Flourish Flutter Fly Flying-party Folk Forage Frail Freebooter Frisking Frolick Front Frounce Fumble Gad Gadder Gadding Gambol Ganglion Gannet Gentlewoman Giddily Gilder Gipsey Gird Girl Glowworm Go Gondola Gorged Gospel-gossip Gossip Gossiping Grassation Grayling Grenade Guara Guinea-pig Guiser Gymnosophist Hag Halcyon Halse Hammoc Handkerchief Handspike Harvest-queen Haunt Haunter Head Heart Hedgehog Hem Hemina Hereaboutreabouts Hesitancy Higgle Higgler Hill Hin Hippelaph Hold Holly Hooting Hover Huff Hyperboloid Hysterics Idea Illuminati Imminent Ink Inkhorn Inquire Inquiry Inquisitive Insensible Intermarry Ipecacuanha Itinerant Jacamar Javelin Jews-stone Jigger Jupiter Kidder Kink Kirtle Kopeck Lambent Lap Lateen Lay Lentil Libration Lick Liter Loach Log Log-book Logomachist Logomachy Look Loosely Loosen Lordly Lumbago Lurch Lurk Luster Make Manioc Marling Marmot Matter Menstruum Mercury Middle Middle-aged Middling Midsummer Mina Misgum Mite Mockery Morgray Move Muffled Muffling Musk Muskmelon Nasus Nestle Newel Night-tripping Night-walker Nightmar Nocturnal Noise Nomadize Notion Nucleus Obambulate Obambulation Obequitate Obequitation Oberration Object Obolus Of Off Oke Ornamental Ortolan Otomo Otter Outride Outrider Oxygen Parade Paraselene Parceling Parturient Pasch-egg Pass Patacoon Patrol Peddle Peddling Pedler Pedlery Pendent Penitent Perianth Pericarp Pericranium Perigee Perigraph Perigynous Perihelion Perimeter Period Periosteum Peripatetic Periphrase Periplus Peripneumony Peristyle Perisystole Peritoneum Petit-maitre Piaba Piaster Piddler Pilchard Pilgrimize Pineal Pit-fish Pitching Planet Platonic Plausibly Pleiads Pole-ax Police Pontoon Porcupine Porcupine-fish Portable Pout Prance Precession Preference Prig Primary Print Proboscis Procure Prog Prolate Prowler Prowling Puddening Purse Put Pyramoid Quadrin Quarrel Question Quinquagesima Ramble Rantipole Rate Read Ready Ree Refine Revelly Rhenish Rifle Rix-dollar Roam Robust Rock Roll Roller Romp Round Roundabout Rounding Rove Rover Ruble Run Rundle Rupee Sack Sagene Sanctity Saunter Saunterer Sauntering Scarlet-fever Scatter Sceptic Schene Scour Sea-wolf Secede Seceder Secondary Senator Septuagesima Septuagint Sequin Serrated Sesterce Set Settle Shackle Shaftment Shaggy Shaken Shekel Shift Shilling Shoal Shoot Show-bread Silk Sillimanite Silver Slack Slash Slop Slue Small Snuffbox Solicitous Some Sparkle Sparrow Spatter Splash Sport Spunge Staggers Stalk Stamp Stand Stanza Star Stater Stay Stickler Stigmatical Stir Stiver Strain Stray Strew Striving Succinite Suet Surety Swathe Swingling-knife Table Talent Tallow Tapir Tease Telegraph Temin Tempest-tost Tertian Teston Testoon Thence Thereabout Thiller Throw Tirade Tokay Toothed Top-sail Torment Tottery Tribracteate Trifle Trifling Trim Troglodyte Troll Trolled Trolling Trouble Trumpeter Tumble Tumbling Turn Turpentine Twine Twist Tye Umbra Unconcerned Urn Vagabond Verst Vervels Vie View Vilely Wag Wander Watch Water Water-fowl Water-line Water-table Weather-bit Wharf Wheel Whereabout Whip Whirl Whitlow Winding Winter Worral Wreath Yard Zedoary Zerda
Abassi Abassis About Acetabulum Acherset Acontias Acre Acroter Adarcon Adders-grass Adeb Adessenarians Admonish Ado Advocate After Age Agoing Aguapecaca Albatros Alcaic Alcedo Alee Algum Alive All Alleveur Alligator Almucantar Alquier Altin Am Amb Ambe Ambi Ambient Ambit Ambition Ambulation Ambustion Amend America Amice Ammodyte Amore Amphibia Amphibial Amphitheater Amphora Amplexicaul Amputate Anaca Anchovy Anent Aneurism Anfractuous Anker Annular Antinomian Antiochian Anxious Apostolics Aquarius Arcboutant Aries Arise Aristotelian Ark Armings Around Arpent Arundelian Asian Asper Assassins Astrite Atche Attar Axis Axolote Azote Bagpipe Ballatoon Band Bandy Barbel Barracada Barracuda Baryta Bass Battery Bazat Be Bead Bead-tree Beak Bean Beat Bell-metal Bellows-fish Bernardins Bethlehem Betumbled Biarmian Bib Bicauda Bidon Big Biggin Bilander Bison Bit Black-faced Blackness Blazon Blend Bless Blindworm Blink Blue-fish Boitiapo Bomb Bone Bonnet Bosom Botetto Brace Brass Bridegroom Bring Bull Bull-head Busy Buy Cabos Cacao Camlet Cant Canvass Canvasser Capelan Caperer Caponniere Carcass Care Career Careful Careless Carrows Carthaginian Cartouch Cast Cat-head Catacomb Catling Caused Center Chaffer Chain Chapbook Cherry Chew Chistianity Chomer Chop Christmas-rose Chrysoberyl Churnworm Cicisbeism Cicisbeo Cipher Circle Circulate Circumambient Circumambulate Circumcursation Circumduction Circumforanean Circumgestation Circumpolar Circumvection Cirl Close Coal-fish Cocoa Cohort Come Comet Compass Compose Condor Cone Conoid Contend Contention Controversy Conversant Converse Coot Coral Cord Corposant Counterpoise Country Courses Crane Cravat Crawl Creep Croches Crow Cuckoo-spit Culmiferous Cumber Curious Cursory Curtain Cycloid Dabble Dance Dancing Dandling Dangle Dangler Daric Dart Dawn Deal Deferent Dentato-sinuate Depth Devour Diadrom Dine Dinner Diomede Discursion Discursive Dish Dispace Dispute Domain Dominican Double-tongued Downlying Drag Dragon-fish Draw Drop Ducatoon Ear Earth Eel Elephant Ellipsoid Ember-goose Emerods Empale Encamp Enchant Entrochite Epha Equinoctial Equinox Ergot Err Errant Errantry Erratic Escurial Espalier Espy Establish Estivation Event Exact Fairy Fakir Fall Fanon Fawn Fence Ferret Fetch Feverish Fiddle-faddle Field-colors Field-staff Fieldfare Fillet Flambeau Flaunt Flesh Flirt Flirting Floren Flourish Flutter Fly Flying-party Folk Forage Frail Freebooter Frisking Frolick Front Frounce Fumble Gad Gadder Gadding Gambol Ganglion Gannet Gentlewoman Giddily Gilder Gipsey Gird Girl Glowworm Go Gondola Gorged Gospel-gossip Gossip Gossiping Grassation Grayling Grenade Guara Guinea-pig Guiser Gymnosophist Hag Halcyon Halse Hammoc Handkerchief Handspike Harvest-queen Haunt Haunter Head Heart Hedgehog Hem Hemina Hereaboutreabouts Hesitancy Higgle Higgler Hill Hin Hippelaph Hold Holly Hooting Hover Huff Hyperboloid Hysterics Idea Illuminati Imminent Ink Inkhorn Inquire Inquiry Inquisitive Insensible Intermarry Ipecacuanha Itinerant Jacamar Javelin Jews-stone Jigger Jupiter Kidder Kink Kirtle Kopeck Lambent Lap Lateen Lay Lentil Libration Lick Liter Loach Log Log-book Logomachist Logomachy Look Loosely Loosen Lordly Lumbago Lurch Lurk Luster Make Manioc Marling Marmot Matter Menstruum Mercury Middle Middle-aged Middling Midsummer Mina Misgum Mite Mockery Morgray Move Muffled Muffling Musk Muskmelon Nasus Nestle Newel Night-tripping Night-walker Nightmar Nocturnal Noise Nomadize Notion Nucleus Obambulate Obambulation Obequitate Obequitation Oberration Object Obolus Of Off Oke Ornamental Ortolan Otomo Otter Outride Outrider Oxygen Parade Paraselene Parceling Parturient Pasch-egg Pass Patacoon Patrol Peddle Peddling Pedler Pedlery Pendent Penitent Perianth Pericarp Pericranium Perigee Perigraph Perigynous Perihelion Perimeter Period Periosteum Peripatetic Periphrase Periplus Peripneumony Peristyle Perisystole Peritoneum Petit-maitre Piaba Piaster Piddler Pilchard Pilgrimize Pineal Pit-fish Pitching Planet Platonic Plausibly Pleiads Pole-ax Police Pontoon Porcupine Porcupine-fish Portable Pout Prance Precession Preference Prig Primary Print Proboscis Procure Prog Prolate Prowler Prowling Puddening Purse Put Pyramoid Quadrin Quarrel Question Quinquagesima Ramble Rantipole Rate Read Ready Ree Refine Revelly Rhenish Rifle Rix-dollar Roam Robust Rock Roll Roller Romp Round Roundabout Rounding Rove Rover Ruble Run Rundle Rupee Sack Sagene Sanctity Saunter Saunterer Sauntering Scarlet-fever Scatter Sceptic Schene Scour Sea-wolf Secede Seceder Secondary Senator Septuagesima Septuagint Sequin Serrated Sesterce Set Settle Shackle Shaftment Shaggy Shaken Shekel Shift Shilling Shoal Shoot Show-bread Silk Sillimanite Silver Slack Slash Slop Slue Small Snuffbox Solicitous Some Sparkle Sparrow Spatter Splash Sport Spunge Staggers Stalk Stamp Stand Stanza Star Stater Stay Stickler Stigmatical Stir Stiver Strain Stray Strew Striving Succinite Suet Surety Swathe Swingling-knife Table Talent Tallow Tapir Tease Telegraph Temin Tempest-tost Tertian Teston Testoon Thence Thereabout Thiller Throw Tirade Tokay Toothed Top-sail Torment Tottery Tribracteate Trifle Trifling Trim Troglodyte Troll Trolled Trolling Trouble Trumpeter Tumble Tumbling Turn Turpentine Twine Twist Tye Umbra Unconcerned Urn Vagabond Verst Vervels Vie View Vilely Wag Wander Watch Water Water-fowl Water-line Water-table Weather-bit Wharf Wheel Whereabout Whip Whirl Whitlow Winding Winter Worral Wreath Yard Zedoary Zerda
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