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A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language · 1862 · p. 2

, adv. == round about (of locality). RG. 369; ‘ȝeode aboute’ 76 B. —— ‘about to,’ with a verb, as a future part. 1593 B. —— == nearly. RG. 247 —— prep. == around, circum. RG. 467; [obout]. Ps. lxxvii. 28 —— == near (of time), ‘aboute noon.’ Wright’s L. P. p. 34