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Skirt :: Skirt (v. t.) To cover with a skirt; to surround.

Court :: Court (n.) The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.

Cobwork :: Cobwork (a.) Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater..

Corral :: Corral (v. t.) To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything..

Besiege :: Besiege (v. t.) To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset..

Surrounding :: Surrounding (n.) An encompassing.

Begird :: Begird (v. t.) To surround as with a band; to encompass.

Protuberation :: Protuberation (n.) The act of swelling beyond the surrounding surface.

Sphincter :: Sphincter (n.) A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder..

Fossulate :: Fossulate (a.) Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows..

Circumscribe :: Circumscribe (v. t.) To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.

Enguard :: Enguard (v. t.) To surround as with a guard.

Impackment :: Impackment (n.) The state of being closely surrounded, crowded, or pressed, as by ice..

Minaret :: Minaret (n.) A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin..

Dike :: Dike (v. t.) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

Environs :: Environs (n. pl.) The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town..

Cavalier :: Cavalier (n.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts..

Hymenogeny :: Hymenogeny (n.) The production of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former..

Stock-blind :: Stockade (v. t.) To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade..

Palisade :: Palisade (v. t.) To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades..

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