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A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may…

In Greenland, an insular hill or mountain surrounded by an ice sheet.

bone. Occipital bone (Anat.), the bone which forms the posterior segment of the skull and surrounds the great foramen by which the spinal cord leaves the cranium. In the higher vertebrates it is usually composed of four bones, which become consolidated in the adult. -- Occipital point (Anat.), the point of the occiput…

A small circular opening, and ring of moldings surrounding it, used in window tracery in Gothic architecture. [Written also oylet.]

A spring, surrounded by rushes or rank grass; an oasis. [Southwestern U.S.] Bartlett.

Of or pertaining to the mouth; surrounding or lining the mouth; as, oral cilia or cirri.

To encircle; to surround; to inclose. [Poetic] The wheels were orbed with gold. Addison.

The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.

The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bull's-eye.

To cause to surround, to cover. Papin.

To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.

A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc.

To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.

One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.

One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.

A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame; as, the panel of a door.

A framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like. Dormant, or Silent, partner. See under Dormant, a.

A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie. "If ye pinch me like a pasty." Shak. "Apple pasties." Dickens. A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. Sir W. Scott.

receive the strain of the pawls. -- Pawl rim or ring (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in.

A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.