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  • English Word Round Definition A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman.
  • English Word Round Definition A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe; also, the guard or officer, with his attendants, who performs this duty; -- usually in the plural.
  • English Word Round Definition A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
  • English Word Round Definition Ammunition for discharging a piece or pieces once; as, twenty rounds of ammunition were given out.
  • English Word Round Definition A short vocal piece, resembling a catch in which three or four voices follow each other round in a species of canon in the unison.
  • English Word Round Definition The time during which prize fighters or boxers are in actual contest without an intermission, as prescribed by their rules; a bout.
  • English Word Round Definition A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
  • English Word Round Definition A vessel filled, as for drinking.
  • English Word Round Definition An assembly; a group; a circle; as, a round of politicians.
  • English Word Round Definition See Roundtop.
  • English Word Round Definition Same as Round of beef, below.
  • English Word Round Definition On all sides; around.
  • English Word Round Definition Circularly; in a circular form or manner; by revolving or reversing one's position; as, to turn one's head round; a wheel turns round.
  • English Word Round Definition In circumference; as, a ball is ten inches round.
  • English Word Round Definition From one side or party to another; as to come or turn round, -- that is, to change sides or opinions.
  • English Word Round Definition By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.
  • English Word Round Definition Through a circle, as of friends or houses.
  • English Word Round Definition Roundly; fully; vigorously.
  • English Word Round Definition On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable round a windlass.
  • English Word Round Definition To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical; to give a round or convex figure to; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of anything.
  • English Word Round Definition To surround; to encircle; to encompass.
  • English Word Round Definition To bring to fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion.
  • English Word Round Definition To go round wholly or in part; to go about (a corner or point); as, to round a corner; to round Cape Horn.
  • English Word Round Definition To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing.
  • English Word Round Definition To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
  • English Word Round Definition To go round, as a guard.
  • English Word Round Definition To go or turn round; to wheel about.
  • English Word Round-arm Definition Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally.
  • English Word Round-backed Definition Having a round back or shoulders; round-shouldered.
  • English Word Round-shouldered Definition Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.