rounding out (rounding out)

Same as rounding, 2. rounding-plane (roun'ding-plān), n. A woodworking tool for rounding and finishing the C C Od Rounding-plane or Witchet. a, plane-iron; b, handles of rakes or brooms, chair-rounds, and other round pieces. It has a plane-bit placed d parallel to the axis of a circular hole, and projecting slightly. The rough stuff is pa ed through the hole, and rotated against the cutting edge. rounding-tool (rounʼding-töl), n. 1. In forging, forging, a a top-or bottom-tool having a semicylindrical groove, used as a swage for rounding a rod, the stem of a bolt, and the like. E. H. Knight.-2. In saddlery, a kind of draw-plate for shaping round leather straps. It consists of a pair of jaws with corresponding semicylindrical grooves of various sizes on both sides. The jaws can be locked shut in order that the strap may be pa ed through the cylindrical openings thus formed. stock, piece to be rounded; d, d, han 3. Same as rondel: specifically applied by Swinburne to a form apparently invented by himself. This consists of nine lines with two refrains, arranged as follows: a, b, a (and refrain); b, a, b; a, b, a (and refrain)-the refrain, as in the rondeau and rondel, being part of the first line. The measure is unrestricted, and the refrain generally rimes with the b lines. Many a himpne for your holy daies That highten balades, roundels , virelaies. Chaucer, Good Women. All day long we rode Thro' the dim land against a rushing wind, That glorious roundel echoing in our ears. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. [ roundelay (roun'de-lā), п . dim. of rondel , a roundel: see roundel . The spelling roundelay appar. simulates E. lays.] 1. Any song in which an idea, line, or refrain is continually repeated. Per. It fell upon a holy eve, Wil . Hey, ho, hallidaye! Per. When holy fathers went to shrieve; Wil . Wil . Now ginneth this roundelay . Now endeth our roundelay. Cud. Sicker, sike a roundle never heard I none. Spenser , Shep. Cal., August. Dryden. Loudly sung his roundelay of love. While linnet, lark, and blackbird gay Sing forth her nuptial roundelay . Scott, Rokeby, ii. 16. IMG:content-2524.png:[blocks in formation] round-faced (round'fast), a. Having a round face: as, the round - faced macaque, Macacus cyclopis. I can give no other account of him but that he was pretty tall, round-faced, and one, I'm sure, I ne'er had seen before. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, v. i. round fish (round'fish), n. 1. The common carp, Cyprinus carpio.-2. The shad-waiter or round-iron (round'i"ern), n . pilot-fish, Coregonus quadrilateral is; the Menomonee whitefish, abundant in the Great Lake region and northward. Seecut under shad - waiter. roundhand (round'hand), n. [