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Zone :: Zone (n.) A band or area of growth encircling anything; as, a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent; the Alpine zone, that part of mountains which is above the limit of tree growth..

Hill :: Hill (v. t.) To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn..

Halo :: Halo (n.) A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.

Clasp :: Clasp (n.) A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand..

Floscularian :: Floscularian (n.) One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk..

Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To wind spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. See under Serving..

Double :: Double (a.) To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion..

Exaspidean :: Exaspidean (a.) Having the anterior scute/ extending around the tarsus on the outer side, leaving the inner side naked; -- said of certain birds..

Mantling :: Mantling (n.) The representation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms: -- called also lambrequin..

Bordelais :: Bordelais (a.) Of or pertaining to Bordeaux, in France, or to the district around Bordeaux..

Areola :: Areola (n.) The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule..

Waistband :: Waistband (n.) A sash worn by women around the waist.

Keckle :: Keckle (v. t.) To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice..

Year :: Year (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissext

Breechcloth :: Breechcloth (n.) A cloth worn around the breech.

Circumscribe :: Circumscribe (v. t.) To draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5..

Former :: Former (n.) A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed..

Perichordal :: Perichordal (a.) Around the notochord; as, a perichordal column. See Epichordal..

Bull''s-eye :: Bull's-eye (n.) A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging..

Hemorrhoids :: Hemorrhoids (n. pl.) Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods..

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