ROUND (5)

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. The serpent Error twines round human hearts. Cowper. Round about, an emphatic form for round or about. “Moses . . . set them round about the tabernacle.” Num. xi. 24. — To come round, to gain the consent of, or circumvent, (a person) by flattery or deception.