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in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. [Written also caravanserai and caravansera.]

e bullet. Rim-fire cartridge, a cartridge in which the fulminate is contained in a rim surrounding its base. -- Cartridge bag, a bag of woolen cloth, to hold a charge for a cannon. -- Cartridge belt, a belt having pocket for cartridges. -- Cartridge box, a case, usually of leather, attached to a belt or strap, for h…

An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.

that ordinary heigh, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.

A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes…

Inflammatory swelling of the conjunctival tissue surrounding the cornea. --Che*mot"ic (#), a.

An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

The act of surrounding or encompassing. Sir T. Browne.

Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing. "The circumambient heaven." J. Armstrong.

Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid. "The deep, circumfluent waves." Pope.

Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings. When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. Addison. Not a circumstance, of no account. [Colloq.] -- Under the circumstances, taking all things into consideration.

Standing or placed around; surrounding. [R.] "Circumstant bodies." Sir K. Digby.

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for rastraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hibing an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where…

The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.

y of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in aithority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. Sir. W. Scott.

A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes.

That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.