Merry Go Round - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: merry go roundWhirligig
Whirligig, or 'merry-go-round,' or 'round-about.' If it be driven by steam power, bye-laws for the prevention of danger from it may be made by an urban authority, under the adoptive (English) Public Health Act (Amendment) Act, 1890....
Merry go round
Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement esp a group of seats in the shape of hobbyhorses or other fanciful animals arranged in a circle on a platform that is rotated by a mechanical drive often to the accompaniment of music the seats often move up and down in synchrony with the rotation called also carousel It is employed primarily for the amusement of children and is typically found at an amusement park...
Perambulation
Perambulation, a travelling through or over.Perambulation of parishes is to be made by the minister, churchwardens, and parishioners, by going round them once a year, in or about Ascension week; and the parishioners may well justify going over any man's land in their perambulation, according to usage, and it is said may abate all nuisances in their way, Cro. Eliz. 441. Manors are also perambulated, Wheat. Com Pr. 234. See PARISH BOUNDARIES....
Circuition
The act of going round circumlocution...
Circuitous
Going round in a circuit roundabout indirect as a circuitous road a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end...
Circuity
A going round in a circle a course not direct a roundabout way of proceeding...
Encompass
To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely to encircle to inclose to environ as a ring encompasses the finger an army encompasses a city a voyage encompassing the world...
Roundabout
Circuitous going round indirect as roundabout speech...
Merriness
The quality or state of being merry merriment mirth gayety with laughter...
Round-robin
Round-robin, a circle divided from the centre, like King Arthur's Round Table, whence its supposed origin. In each compartment is a signature, so that the entire circle, when filled, exhibits a list without priority being given to any name. A common form of round-robin is simply to write the names in a circular form. For an account of perhaps the most famous round-robin on record, see Boswell's Johnson, Edn. by Birkbeck Hill, vol. iii. p. 82....
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