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The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants.

stairs being supported by the wall; an open newel; also, the stringpiece or rail winding around the well of such a staircase. -- Hollow quoin (Engin.), a pier of stone or brick made behind the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or recess to receive the ends of the gates. -- Hollow root. (Bot.) See Moscha…

To hover around; to loiter; to lurk. [Obs.] Gower.

A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. Knight.

sipobranchs, including the Myxine or hagfish and the genus Bdellostoma. They have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the plate, and a communication between tionnasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish. [Written also Hyperotreti.]

To wall around; to surround with walls. [Obs.] Sandys.

roof, by means of the compluvium; generally made ornamental with flowers and works of art around its birm.

fluence by which an electric current produces magnetic polarity in certain bodies near or around which it passes. -- Electro-static induction, the action by which a body possessing a charge of statical electricity develops a charge of statical electricity of the opposite character in a neighboring body. -- Induction…

A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.

a bright object seen upon a dark ground, due to the fact that the portions of the retina around the image are stimulated by the intense light; as when a dark spot on a white ground appears smaller, or a white spot on a dark ground larger, than it really is, esp. when a little out of focus.

o hospital fever, and ship fever. -- Jail liberties, or Jail limits, a space or district around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowed to go at large. Abbott. -- Jail lock, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also Scandinavian lock.

Revolving around the planet Jupiter; appearing as viewed from Jupiter. [R.] J. R. Hind.

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. Totten.

Old rope or iron chains wound around a cable. See Keckle, v. t.

To look around. [Obs.] Burton.

A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.

as instituted by the mythical King Arthur. They derived their common title from the table around which they sat on certain solemn days. Brande & C.

To come into view; to appear. [Scot.] It kythes bright . . . because all is dark around it. Sir W. Scott.

One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2.

Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown. Lawn mower, a machine for clipping the short grass of lawns. -- Lawn tennis, a variety of the game of tennis, played in the open air, sometimes upon a lawn, instead of in a tennis court. See Tennis.