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[With excrescent d, as in sound, pound2, etc.; OF. runer ), whisper, murmur, The steward on knees him set adown, With the emperour for to rown . Richard Coer de Lion (Weber's Metr. Rom., II. 84). Another rowned to his felawe lowe. Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 208. II. trans. To addre or speak to in a whisper; utter in a whisper. One rounded another in the ear, and said "Erat dives," He was a rich man: - a great fault. Latimer , 5th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. They're here with me already, whispering, rounding , "Sicilia is a so-forth." Shak ., W. T., i. 2. 217. At the same time he [April Fool] slyly rounded the first lady in the ear that an action might lie against the Crown for bi-geny. Lamb , On the New-Year's Coming of Age. How often must I round thee in the ears - All means are lawful to a lawful end? I like your picture, but I fain would see A sketch of what your promised land will be When The twentieth century rounds a new decade. Whittier, The Panorama. 4. To encircle; encompa ; surround. Am I not he that rules great Nineveh, Rounded with Lycas' silver-flowing streams? Greene and Lodge , Looking Gla for Lond. and Eng. I would to God that the inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow Were red-hot steel. Shak., Rich. III., iv. 1. 60. With garlands of great pearl his brow Begirt and rounded. roundaboutly (round'a-bout"li), adv. [ He said it much more lengthily and roundaboutly . R. Brought on, Joan, i. roundaboutne (round'a-bout"nes), n. [ Cole ridge's prose writings have the same "vice of round about ne ," as Southey called it, as his talk, but without its charm; the same endle interpolations, digre ions, and apologies-with the same superabundance of long, strange, and hard words. Quarterly Rev., CXLV. 77. round-all (round'âl), n. An acrobatic feat. See the quotation. Doing round- alls (that's throwing yourself backwards on to your hands and back again to your feet). Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, III, 104. round-arched (round'ärcht), a. In arch., characterized by semicircular arches, as a style or a building, as ancient Roman, Byzantine, Ro IMG:content-2522.jpg:[graphic] Round-arched Construction. A pier with perspective of nave, aisle, and vaulting of the Abbey Church of Vézelay, France. secret, mystery: see round2, v., and rune1.] manesque, and other construction, and the edi whisper or whispering; discourse; song. ix. and nigneti ger he [Abraham] was old, Quuanne him cam bode [me age] in sunder [diverse] run, Fro gode of circumcicioun. Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 991. roundabout (round'a-bout"), a. and n. [ round about , adverbial phrase: see round1 , adv ., and about, adv.] I. a. 1. Circuitous; tortuous; indirect. fices in those styles; also, having the form of a round arch, as an architectural member. The transverse ribs [choir of Noyon Cathedral] alone are pointed, and the round- arched longitudinal ribs are much stilted. C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 49. round-arm (round'ärm), a . In cricket , swing- ing the arm round more or le horizontally, or done with the arm so used: as, a round - arm bowler; round -arm bowling. Encyc. Dict. 'ärmd), a. In boxing , given Girls have always a round about way of saying yes before round-armed (round'ärmd), a. company. with a horizontal swing of the arm. And the clumsy round - armed hit, even though it does more harm to the recipient, is not esteemed so highly a straight hit made directly from the shoulder. Saturday Rev., No. 1474 round-backed (round'bakt), a. Having a round or curved back; showing unusual convexity of back, especially between the shoulders; round shouldered.