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  • English Word Round-up Definition The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
  • English Word Roundabout Definition Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.
  • English Word Roundabout Definition Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
  • English Word Roundabout Definition A horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round.
  • English Word Roundabout Definition A dance performed in a circle.
  • English Word Roundabout Definition A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc.
  • English Word Roundabout Definition A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude.
  • English Word Roundaboutness Definition The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
  • English Word Rounded Definition of Round
  • English Word Rounded Definition Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.
  • English Word Roundel Definition A rondelay.
  • English Word Roundel Definition Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
  • English Word Roundel Definition A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
  • English Word Roundel Definition A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle.
  • English Word Roundel Definition A bastion of a circular form.
  • English Word Roundelay Definition See Rondeau, and Rondel.
  • English Word Roundelay Definition A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively.
  • English Word Roundelay Definition A dance in a circle.
  • English Word Roundelay Definition Anything having a round form; a roundel.
  • English Word Rounder Definition One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.
  • English Word Rounder Definition A tool for making an edge or surface round.
  • English Word Rounder Definition An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football.
  • English Word Roundfish Definition Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes.
  • English Word Roundfish Definition A lake whitefish (Coregonus quadrilateralis), less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
  • English Word Roundhead Definition A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
  • English Word Roundheaded Definition Having a round head or top.
  • English Word Roundhouse Definition A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house.
  • English Word Roundhouse Definition A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach.
  • English Word Roundhouse Definition A privy near the bow of the vessel.
  • English Word Roundhouse Definition A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.