Definition of around

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Around (adv.) In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town..

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Nucleus :: Nucleus (n.) The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum..
Cavo-rilievo :: Cavo-rilievo (n.) Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around..
Toggle :: Toggle (n.) A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes..
Bryozoum :: Bryozoum (n.) An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.)..
Circumflant :: Circumflant (a.) Blowing around.
Circus :: Circus (n.) A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows..
Circinate :: Circinate (v. t.) To make a circle around; to encompass.
Ring-necked :: Ring-necked (a.) Having a well defined ring of color around the neck.
Roundhouse :: Roundhouse (n.) A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable..
Perichordal :: Perichordal (a.) Around the notochord; as, a perichordal column. See Epichordal..
Owl :: Owl (n.) Any species of raptorial birds of the family Strigidae. They have large eyes and ears, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits..
Peristome :: Peristome (n.) The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double..
Circumvection :: Circumvection (n.) The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried..
Hastings Sands :: Hastings sands () The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England..
Castle :: Castle (v. i.) To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king..
Lock :: Lock (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him..
Neckband :: Neckband (n.) A band which goes around the neck; often, the part at the top of a garment..
Welt :: Welt (n.) In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole..
Orbit :: Orbit (n.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon..
Pygobranchia :: Pygobranchia (n. pl.) A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiae in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris..
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