KJV Dictionary Definition: round

round

ROUND, a.

1. Cylindrical; circular; spherical or globular. Round is applicable to a cylinder as well as to a globe or sphere. We say, the barrel of a musket is round; a ball is round; a circle is round.

2. Full; large; as a round sum or price.

rounding

ROUND'ING, ppr.

1. Making round or circular.

2. Making full, flowing and smooth.

ROUND'ING, a. Round or roundish; nearly round.

ROUND'ING, n. Among seamen, old ropes wound about the part of the cable which lies in the hawse, or athwart the stem, to prevent its chafing.

Rounding in, a pulling upon a slack rope, which passes through one or more blocks in a direction nearly horizontal. Rounding up is a pulling in like manner, when a tackle hangs in a perpendicular direction.

roundness

ROUND'NESS, n.

1. The quality of being round, circular, spherical, globular or cylindrical; circularity; sphericity; cylindrical form; rotundity; as the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, &c.

2. Fullness; smoothness of flow; as the roundness of a period.

3. Openness; plainness; boldness; positiveness; as the roundness of an assertion.

rounds

ROUNDS, n. plu.

1. See Round, n. No. 5.

2. Round-top. See Top.