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Home Dictionary Name: round aboutWhirligig
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....
Circumambulate
To walk round about...
Circumposition
The act of placing in a circle or round about or the state of being so placed...
Environ
To surround to encompass to encircle to hem in to be round about to involve or envelop...
Kermes
The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect Kermes ilices formerly Coccus ilicis allied to the cochineal insect and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean also the dye obtained from them They are round about the size of a pea contain coloring matter analogous to carmine and are used in dyeing They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature and were used in medicine...
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....
Rounding
Round or nearly round becoming round roundish...
Round backed
Having a round back or shoulders round shouldered...
Roundness
The quality or state of being round in shape as the roundness of the globe of the orb of the sun of a ball of a bowl a column etc...
round lot
round lot : the standard unit of trading in a security market usually amounting to 100 shares of stock compare odd lot ...
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