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Surrounded, bounded, or protected by the sea, as if by a wall. Shak.

Surrounded by the water of the sea or ocean; as, a seagirt isle. Milton.

In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.

to defer; to put off; to lay aside. -- To shift the scene, to change the locality or the surroundings, as in a play or a story. Shift the scene for half an hour; Time and place are in thy power. Swift.

or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade.

To cover with a skirt; to surround. Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. Milton.

Surrounded by sky. [Poetic & R.] "The skyed mountain." Thomson.

Having the eyes surrounded by color markings, or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles. Spectacled bear (Zoöl.), a South American bear (Tremarclos ornatus) which inhabits the high mountains of Chili and Peru. It has a light-colored ring around each eye. -- Spectacled coot, or Spectacled duck (Zoöl.), the surf s…

e sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal. Sphenethmoid bone (Anat.), a bone of the skull which surrounds the anterior end of the brain in many amphibia; the girdle bone.

A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder.

To surround, fortify, or protect with a stockade.

help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary. [R.] Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursal churches, its monasteries, and convents. Milman.

Minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.

pots that appear on the sun's disk, consisting commonly of a black central portion with a surrounding border of lighter shade, and usually seen only by the telescope, but sometimes by the naked eye. They are very changeable in their figure and dimensions, and vary in size from mere apparent points to spaces of 50,000 m…

reasons." Shak. With many a sound of sundry melody. Chaucer. Sundry foes the rural realm surround. Dryden.

with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country. Round he surveys and well might, where he stood, So high above. Milton.

membrane, the dense and very smooth connective tissue membrane which secretes synovia and surrounds synovial capsules and other synovial cavities.

An operation to diminish the size of the opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding cicatrices.

A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.

r the region of the larynx. In man and most mammals it is a highly vascular organ, partly surrounding the base of the larynx and the upper part of the trachea. -- Thyroid dislocation (Surg.), dislocation of the thigh bone into the thyroid foramen. -- Thyroid foramen, the obturator foramen.