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Entom.: A British geometer moth, Cabera exanthem aria. round-worm, s. Zoology: 1. Sing .: The genus Ascaris (q. v.), spec. Ascaris lumbricoides , the Large Round-worm, being from six to fourteen inches long. 2. Pl .: A popular name for those worms of the cla Nema tel mint hes (q. v.), which have bodies of some thickne . So called to distinguish them from the Threadworms. round (1), v. t. & i. [ROUND, a.] A. Transitive: *1. To make round, circular, spherical, or cylin IMG:content-0775.png:[blocks in formation] *2. To surround, to encircle, to encompa . "For she his hairy temples then had rounded With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, iv. 1. 3. To give a circular or spherical form to; to raise in relief. "The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded."-Add is on: On Medals . 4. To move round or about anything; to pa , go, or travel round. "Neither of them succeeded in even rounding the turn ing buoy."-London Daily Telegraph. 5. To collect together. (Usually followed by up .) "[Cattle] that have been ranging the open plains have just been rounded up , and are at last penned in a corral."- Scribner's Magazine , April, 1880, p. 930. 6. To mold in to smoothne ; to make full, smooth, and flowing. "These accomplishments, applied in the pulpit, appear by a quaint, terse, florid stile, rounded into periods and cadencies."- Swift : Miscellanies. *7. To make full or complete; to complete. B. Intransitive: *1. To grow or become round. "The queen, your mother, rounds apace." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, ii. 1. *2. To go round, as a guard. ( Milton.) 3. To turn round. "The men who met him rounded on their heels." Tennyson. *4. To become complete or full; to develop into the full type. IMG:content-0776.png:[blocks in formation] When blazoned or, they are called bezants; when argent, plates; whon vert, pome is; when azure, hurts; when sable, agre es or pellets; when gules, torteaux; when tenné or tawny, oranges; when san guine or murry, guzes. IMG:content-0777.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A sort of ancient poem, consisting of thirteen verses, of which eight are in one kind of rime and five in another. It is divided into couplets, at the commencement of the second or third of which the beginning of the poem is repeated, and that, if pos- sible, in an equivocal or punning sense. [RON DEAU.] 2. A song or tune in which the first strain is re peated. 3. The tune to which a roundelay was sung. 4. A dance in which all joined hands in a circle. round-er (1), s. [Eng. round , a.; -er.] each other and the batter's station. The object of the batter is to strike the ball as far as po ible away with a short bat held in one hand, so as to be able to make a complete circuit of the ground, pa ing through each goal, or as far as any one of the goals, before the ball is returned by one of the fielders. A complete circuit of the ground made at once counts a run. The batter is out if the ball, after being hit by him, is caught by one of the flelders, or if he is struck by the ball thrown by a fielder while running between any of the goals. 4. A rock-boring tool having a cylindrical form and indented face. 5. A plane used by wheelwrights for rounding off tenons. round-ing, pr . par ., a. & s. [ROUND (1), v.] A. As pr . par .: (See the verb.) *B. As adj .: Round, roundish, nearly round. "A flexile sallow, entrench'd, Rounding , capacious of the juicy hord." IMG:content-0778.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0779.png:[blocks in formation] round-hănd, s. & a . [Eng. round , a., and hand.] A. As substantive: 1. A style of penmanship in which the letters are formed round and full. "The Round heads he regarded both with political and with personal aversion." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. ii. B. As adj .: Pertaining or belonging to the Par- liamentary party in the Civil War. "Animated by the Round head spirit."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. v. round-head-ed, adj . [English round , a., and 1. Having a round head or top; as, a roundheaded arch. *2. Pertaining or belonging to the Round heads or Parliamentarians. "The roundheaded rebels of Westminster Hall." Scott : Rokeby , v. 20. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia 3. A small pancake. ( Prov .) *4. A blasphemous name given to the sacramental Naut.: To pull together, upon a cable, ., withtude. out the a istance of mechanical power. rouse-about block, s. 2. Anything very great or startling. ( Slang .) 3. Brew.: A stirrer in the hop-copper of a brew- ery. 1. Having power to rouse, awaken, or excite; exciting. ( Slang .) 2. Very great; startling, exciting. ( Slang .) "In po e ion of a rousing trade."- Sterne : Tristram Shandy, vi. 109. IMG:content-0781.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0782.png:[blocks in formation] roust, v . t . To stir up. ( U. S. Colloq .) roust, roost, rost, s. [Icel. röst a current.] A rout (1), s. (q. v.)] torrent occasioned by a tide; the turbulent part of a channel or firth caused by the meeting of rapid tides. ( Scotch .) roust-a-bout, s. [Prob. for roost , and about ; cf. rooster.] A laborer on board a steamer; a lazy, idle vagabond; a loafer. roust-ỹ, a . [ROUST, v .] Rusty. ( Scotch .) rout (1), *route, *rowt, s. [O. Fr. route =a rout, a defeat a troop or multitude of men or beasts a way, a street, a course; prop. something broken, from Lat. rupta , fem. of ruptus , pa. par. of rumpo =to break; Ital. rotta ; Sp.rota= a rout, a defeat; Dut. rot ; M. H. Ger. rote , rotte; Ger. rotte ; Dan. rode. The word is thus the same as route (q. v.).] 1. The utter defeat of an army or body of troops; the disorder and confusion of troops thus defeated and put to flight. "To these, glad conquest, murderous rout to those." Pope : Homer's Iliad , xiii. 393. 2. An uproar, a brawl, a tumult. "Give me to know to harbor owe or rouse the game." - Elyot : Governor, bk. i., ch. xviii. *2. To raise, to erect. "Being mounted and both roused in their seats." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt . II . , iv. 1. 3. To excite to thought or action from a state of idlene , languor, or inattention. "Rousing each caitiff to his task of care." 3. A company of persons; a concourse, and gener derly, or clamorous crowd. "To swear he would the rascal rout o'erthrow." Thomson: Castle of Indolence , ii. 15. 4. A fashionable a embly or large evening party. "She is the foundre of those a emblies called routs ." -Dr. Wharton: Ranelagh House. IMG:content-0783.png:[blocks in formation] routhie