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Round
ROUND, a.
1. Cylindrical; circular; spherical or globular. Round is applicable to a cylinder as well as to a globe or sphere. We say, the barrel of a musket is round; a ball is round; a circle is round.
2. Full; large; as a round sum or price.
3. Full; smooth; flowing; not defective or abrupt.
In his satires, Horace is quick, round and pleasant.
His style, though round and comprehensive -
4. Plain; open; candid; fair.
Round dealing is the honor of man's nature.
Let her be round with him.
5. Full; quick; brisk; as a round trot.
6. Full; plump; bold; positive; as a round assertion.
A round number, is a number that ends with a cipher, and may be divided by 10 without a remainder; a complete or full number. It is remarkable that the W. cant, a hundred, the L. centum, and Sax. hund, signify properly a circle, and this use of round may have originated in a like idea.
ROUND, n.
1. A circle; a circular thing, or a circle in motion.
With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads.
Knit your hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round.
2. Action or performance in a circle, or passing through a series of hands or things and coming to the point of beginning; or the time of such action.
Women to cards may be compared; we play a round or two; when used, we throw away.
The feast was serv'd; the bowl was crown'd; to the king's pleasure went the mirthful round.
So we say, a round of labors or duties.
We run the daily round.
3. Rotation in office; succession in vicissitude.
4. A rundle; the step of a ladder.
All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise.
5. A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe. Hence the officer and men who perform this duty are called the rounds.
6. A dance; a song; a roundelay, or a species of fugue.
7. A general discharge of fire-arms by a body of troops, in which each soldier fires once. In volleys, it is usual for a company or regiment to fire three rounds.
A round of cartridges and balls, one cartridge to each man; as, to supply a regiment with a single round or with twelve rounds of cartridges.
ROUND, adv.
1. On all sides.
Thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round. Luke 19.
2. Circularly; in a circular form; as, a wheel turns round.
3. From one side or party to another; as, to come or turn round. Hence these expressions signify to change sides or opinions.
4. Not in a direct line; by a course longer than the direct course. The shortest course is not the best; let us go round.
All round, in common speech, denotes over the whole place, or in every direction.
Round about is tautological.
ROUND, prep.
1. On every side of; as, the people stood round him; the sun sheds light round the earth. In this sense, around is much used, and all is often used to modify the word. They stood all round or around him.
2. About; in a circular course, or in all parts; as, to go round the city. He led his guest round his fields and garden. he wanders round the world.
3. Circularly; about; as, to wind a cable round the windlass.
To come or get round one, in popular language, is to gain advantage over one by flattery or deception; to circumvent.
ROUND, v.t.
1. To make circular, spherical or cylindrical; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of any thing.
Worms with many feet, that round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.
2. To surround; to encircle; to encompass.
Th' inclusive verge of golden metal that must round my brow.
Our little life is rounded with a sleep.
3. To form to the arch or figure of the section of a circle.
The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to very great perfection.
4. To move about any thing; as, the sun, in polar regions, rounds the horizon.
5. To make full, smooth and flowing; as, to round periods in writing.
To round in, among seamen, to pull upon a slack rope, which passes through one or more blocks in a direction nearly horizontal.
ROUND, v.i.
1. To grow or become round.
The queen, your mother, rounds space.
2. To go round, as a guard.
- They nightly rounding walk.
To round to, in sailing, is to turn the head of the ship towards the wind.
ROUND, v.i. To whisper; as, to round in the ear. Obs.
round appears in definitions for these words:
Abdominal About Abstract Acacia Adopter Agate Agnail All Altar Aluminite Ambient Ammite Amomum Amphicome Annulet Ant Ante Apennine Areola Around Aspen Aspic Astragal Awlwort Axinomancy Baguet Ball Balloon Bamboo Band Barrel Barshot Basalt Basin Baston Bazat Bead Bean Bearing-cloth Belay Bell Berry Besiege Bezoar Bight Bind Bison Bitter Bitts Blacksmith Blunder Bob Boll Bomb Bonny Bore Bosquet Bossage Bottom Boulder-wall Bow Bower Bowlder Bowlder-wall Bownet Box Brace Breccia Brent Bridestake Bristle Brooch Bulb Bulbed Bulbous Bull Bulwark Bunch Burnisher Burr Button C Cable Cachalot Cake Calabash-tree Calamit Caliber Calote Caltrop Cancer Capstan Cartesian Carvel Cavetto Center Centrifugal Centripetal Chapelling Chapless Chestnut-tree Chimney-piece Chrysoberyl Chub Chub-faced Cincture Circle Circled Circling Circuit Circuition Circuitous Circuity Circular Circulate Circulation Circumambulate Circumambulation Circumfer Circumference Circumfluence Circumfluent Circumfluous Circumfuse Circumfusile Circumfusion Circumgyrate Circumgyre Circumjacent Circumligation Circummured Circumnavigable Circumnavigate Circumnavigation Circumnavigator Circumplication Circumpolar Circumrasion Circumrotary Circumrotation Circumscribe Circumscribed Circumscribing Circumspect Circumspective Circumvent Circumvest Circumvolation Circumvolution Circumvolve Circumvolved Circumvolving Circus Clasp Clasper Clasping Clinch Cling Clinging Clip Close Coat Cobble Cobcoals Cobloaf Cognate Collar Columel Column Come Cometarium Compass Compassing Concave Condyloid Conge Conglobate Conglobately Conglobation Conglobe Conglobing Conglobulate Conglomerate Conglomerated Conical Contravallation Convex Convexity Copple-stones Cornet Corridor Costard Cotton-plant Cotton-shrub Council-board Count-wheel Covert-way Crab Cringle Crook-back Crook-backed Crown-scab Cullion Cupola Curb Curl Curtain Cyclades Cycle Cylinder Deaden Depth Diadem Diamond Dinetical Disk Disturb Ditch Dizzy Dolphin Double-tongued Doubled Doubling Dough-nut Dragonet Dragons-blood Drops Drum Eagle-stone Earth Earthnut Echinus Empale Enarthrosis Enceint Encompass Encompassment Endearment Entrochite Entwine Entwist Ephod Epicycle Eryngo Fairy Farcilite Ferrule Festive Fether Fig Fillet Fistuliform Fledge Flint Flute Flyer Frontal Fusee Gallows Gallstone Garland Geode Gibbosity Gibbousness Giddy Gig Gimblet Girdle Glare Globe Globose Globosity Globous Globular Globulous Globy Glome Glomerated Glomerating Glomerous Go Goldwire Gouge Graywacke Grommet Guard Gyration Gyromancy Hail Halo Hat Head Heap Hedge Hedgehog Helical Heliocentric Helispheric Hem Holly Hooting Horrible Houndfish Hucklebacked Incavated Inkstand Insensible Interfused Jess Jews-stone Jupiter Keckle Ken Kettle-drum Kneepan Knoll Ladder Landscape Lap Late Lathe Lazuli Lentil Lever Lick Lomp Look Luff Madden Marline Mast May-pole Mazy Meander Menachanite Mercury Mirthful Moat Mole Moon Morrice Morse Mourne Mouth Muffle Musk Nightly Nodated Oar Observe Obtenebration Odd Ogee Olivin Open Orange Orbed Orbit Orillon Orle Ovolo Pallet Pantheon Panther Pargasite Parrel Partner Pass Patrol Patrolling Pearl Pebblestone Pebbly Peltate Peridot Period Periodic Periplus Periscian Pessary Pilchard Pile Pill Pillar Placenta Plad Plane-tree Planifolious Play Plinth Plump Plumply Plumpness Polemoscope Polypody Pomme Porcupine Porpite Prickpunch Proa Purl Quadrant Quarter Querl Quitter-bone Radiate Rail Rampart Result Revolution Rhoetizite Richness Roll Rolled Rolling Rolling-pin Rondle Rondure Rospo Rotated Rotation Rote Rotund Rotundifolious Rotundity Rotundo Round Roundabout Roundel Roundhead Roundheaded Rounding Roundish Roundishness Roundly Roundness Roundo Roundridge Rounds Routine Rudder Rundle Runlet Sally Sash Satellite Saturn Sea-urchin Seal Semi-annular Semi-columnar Serve Shelving Shift Shingle Shot Shrewdness Skink Skirt Sling Snake Snaking Snowball Spar Spatulate Specuation Spericalness Spericity Sphere Spherulite Sphery Spin Spiral Spire Spoke Squadron Staff Step Stick Stiletto Stitch String Strop Stuck Subrotund Sump Supernumerary Surety Surround Survey Swaddling-band Swing Swivel Table Take Tambor Tend Tending Tendril Tentacle Teret Thiller Tiar Tilled Tillering Tore Tour Tower Trace Traveler Traverse Trendle Trochil Trochilic Truck Truffle Trundle Trundle-tail Tuberous Tuft Tump Tumping Tun Turban Turkois Turn Turnpike Twine Twined Twining Twirl Twirled Twist Twisted Twisting Tympanum Umbel Undergird Undertaking Unrounded Unthinking Unvarnished Urn Uvula Valance Vandyke Variolite Vector Vegetation Versableness Versatile Vertex Verticillate Vertiginous Vine Virelay Volt Volubilate Wall Warp Warping-bank Wend Wheel Wheel-wright Wheeled Whelky Whip Whir Whirl Whirled Whirligig Whirling Whirlpool Whirlwind Whitlow Wick Windy Woold Woolded Woolding World Worm Wrap Yard Zapote Zoisite
Abdominal About Abstract Acacia Adopter Agate Agnail All Altar Aluminite Ambient Ammite Amomum Amphicome Annulet Ant Ante Apennine Areola Around Aspen Aspic Astragal Awlwort Axinomancy Baguet Ball Balloon Bamboo Band Barrel Barshot Basalt Basin Baston Bazat Bead Bean Bearing-cloth Belay Bell Berry Besiege Bezoar Bight Bind Bison Bitter Bitts Blacksmith Blunder Bob Boll Bomb Bonny Bore Bosquet Bossage Bottom Boulder-wall Bow Bower Bowlder Bowlder-wall Bownet Box Brace Breccia Brent Bridestake Bristle Brooch Bulb Bulbed Bulbous Bull Bulwark Bunch Burnisher Burr Button C Cable Cachalot Cake Calabash-tree Calamit Caliber Calote Caltrop Cancer Capstan Cartesian Carvel Cavetto Center Centrifugal Centripetal Chapelling Chapless Chestnut-tree Chimney-piece Chrysoberyl Chub Chub-faced Cincture Circle Circled Circling Circuit Circuition Circuitous Circuity Circular Circulate Circulation Circumambulate Circumambulation Circumfer Circumference Circumfluence Circumfluent Circumfluous Circumfuse Circumfusile Circumfusion Circumgyrate Circumgyre Circumjacent Circumligation Circummured Circumnavigable Circumnavigate Circumnavigation Circumnavigator Circumplication Circumpolar Circumrasion Circumrotary Circumrotation Circumscribe Circumscribed Circumscribing Circumspect Circumspective Circumvent Circumvest Circumvolation Circumvolution Circumvolve Circumvolved Circumvolving Circus Clasp Clasper Clasping Clinch Cling Clinging Clip Close Coat Cobble Cobcoals Cobloaf Cognate Collar Columel Column Come Cometarium Compass Compassing Concave Condyloid Conge Conglobate Conglobately Conglobation Conglobe Conglobing Conglobulate Conglomerate Conglomerated Conical Contravallation Convex Convexity Copple-stones Cornet Corridor Costard Cotton-plant Cotton-shrub Council-board Count-wheel Covert-way Crab Cringle Crook-back Crook-backed Crown-scab Cullion Cupola Curb Curl Curtain Cyclades Cycle Cylinder Deaden Depth Diadem Diamond Dinetical Disk Disturb Ditch Dizzy Dolphin Double-tongued Doubled Doubling Dough-nut Dragonet Dragons-blood Drops Drum Eagle-stone Earth Earthnut Echinus Empale Enarthrosis Enceint Encompass Encompassment Endearment Entrochite Entwine Entwist Ephod Epicycle Eryngo Fairy Farcilite Ferrule Festive Fether Fig Fillet Fistuliform Fledge Flint Flute Flyer Frontal Fusee Gallows Gallstone Garland Geode Gibbosity Gibbousness Giddy Gig Gimblet Girdle Glare Globe Globose Globosity Globous Globular Globulous Globy Glome Glomerated Glomerating Glomerous Go Goldwire Gouge Graywacke Grommet Guard Gyration Gyromancy Hail Halo Hat Head Heap Hedge Hedgehog Helical Heliocentric Helispheric Hem Holly Hooting Horrible Houndfish Hucklebacked Incavated Inkstand Insensible Interfused Jess Jews-stone Jupiter Keckle Ken Kettle-drum Kneepan Knoll Ladder Landscape Lap Late Lathe Lazuli Lentil Lever Lick Lomp Look Luff Madden Marline Mast May-pole Mazy Meander Menachanite Mercury Mirthful Moat Mole Moon Morrice Morse Mourne Mouth Muffle Musk Nightly Nodated Oar Observe Obtenebration Odd Ogee Olivin Open Orange Orbed Orbit Orillon Orle Ovolo Pallet Pantheon Panther Pargasite Parrel Partner Pass Patrol Patrolling Pearl Pebblestone Pebbly Peltate Peridot Period Periodic Periplus Periscian Pessary Pilchard Pile Pill Pillar Placenta Plad Plane-tree Planifolious Play Plinth Plump Plumply Plumpness Polemoscope Polypody Pomme Porcupine Porpite Prickpunch Proa Purl Quadrant Quarter Querl Quitter-bone Radiate Rail Rampart Result Revolution Rhoetizite Richness Roll Rolled Rolling Rolling-pin Rondle Rondure Rospo Rotated Rotation Rote Rotund Rotundifolious Rotundity Rotundo Round Roundabout Roundel Roundhead Roundheaded Rounding Roundish Roundishness Roundly Roundness Roundo Roundridge Rounds Routine Rudder Rundle Runlet Sally Sash Satellite Saturn Sea-urchin Seal Semi-annular Semi-columnar Serve Shelving Shift Shingle Shot Shrewdness Skink Skirt Sling Snake Snaking Snowball Spar Spatulate Specuation Spericalness Spericity Sphere Spherulite Sphery Spin Spiral Spire Spoke Squadron Staff Step Stick Stiletto Stitch String Strop Stuck Subrotund Sump Supernumerary Surety Surround Survey Swaddling-band Swing Swivel Table Take Tambor Tend Tending Tendril Tentacle Teret Thiller Tiar Tilled Tillering Tore Tour Tower Trace Traveler Traverse Trendle Trochil Trochilic Truck Truffle Trundle Trundle-tail Tuberous Tuft Tump Tumping Tun Turban Turkois Turn Turnpike Twine Twined Twining Twirl Twirled Twist Twisted Twisting Tympanum Umbel Undergird Undertaking Unrounded Unthinking Unvarnished Urn Uvula Valance Vandyke Variolite Vector Vegetation Versableness Versatile Vertex Verticillate Vertiginous Vine Virelay Volt Volubilate Wall Warp Warping-bank Wend Wheel Wheel-wright Wheeled Whelky Whip Whir Whirl Whirled Whirligig Whirling Whirlpool Whirlwind Whitlow Wick Windy Woold Woolded Woolding World Worm Wrap Yard Zapote Zoisite
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