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Round :: Round (prep.) 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..

Peri- :: Peri- () A prefix used to signify around, by, near, over, beyond, or to give an intensive sense; as, perimeter, the measure around; perigee, point near the earth; periergy, work beyond what is needed; perispherical, quite spherical..

Circumambient :: Circumambient (a.) Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.

Drosky :: Drosky (n.) A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities..

Hovel :: Hovel (n.) A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

Amphidromical :: Amphidromical (a.) Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.

Levitate :: Levitate (v. i.) To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate..

Troll :: Troll (v. t.) To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely..

Misground :: Misground (v. t.) To found erroneously.

Flatten :: Flatten (a.) To throw down; to bring to the ground; to prostrate; hence, to depress; to deject; to dispirit..

Run :: Run (n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run..

Commons :: Commons (n. pl.) A common; public pasture ground.

Atrip :: Atrip (adv.) Just hove clear of the ground; -- said of the anchor.

Steel :: Steel (n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.

Circumgyration :: Circumgyration (n.) The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round..

Rehibition :: Rehibition (n.) The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand..

Vine :: Vine (n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants..

Croquet :: Croquet (n.) An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern..

Tarsorrhaphy :: Tarsorrhaphy (n.) An operation to diminish the size of the opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding cicatrices.

Compass :: Compass (v. t.) To reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish.

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