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To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.

A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder (Figure Weaving), devices, in a loom, for presenting several shuttles to the picker in the proper s…

and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious st…

To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.

Having the basal part produced around the stem; -- said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

A prefix used to signify around, by, near, over, beyond, or to give an intensive sense; as, perimeter, the measure around; perigee, point near the earth; periergy, work beyond what is needed; perispherical, quite spherical.

Among or around the stars. "Comets in periastral passage." R. A. Proctor.

That point, in the real or apparent orbit of one star revolving around another, at which the former is nearest to the latter.

Around the bronchi or bronchial tubes; as, the peribronchial lymphatics.

Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart. Pericardial fluid (Physiol.), a serous fluid of a pale yellow color contained in the pericardium.

Of or pertaining to the perichondrium; situated around cartilage.

Around the notochord; as, a perichordal column. See Epichordal.

The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.

Around, or at the side of, a lymphatic vessel.

Inflammation of the cellular tissue around the kidney. -- Per`i*ne*phrit"ic, a.

Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.

Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.

Feathered all around.

Having the shadow moving all around.

Viewing all around, or on all sides. Periscopic spectacles (Opt.), spectacles having concavo-convex or convexo-concave lenses with a considerable curvature corresponding to that of the eye, to increase the distinctness of objects viewed obliquely.