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A circle of feathers surrounding the opening of the ear of birds.

A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. They cast up a bank against the city. 2 Sam. xx. 15.

To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.

To embrace; to surround. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. Wordsworth.

To surround as with a band; to encompass.

To surround as with a girdle.

Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.

A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.

To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow.

To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround. A coarse black robe belted round the waist. C. Reade. They belt him round with hearts undaunted. Wordsworth.

To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade. "Beset with foes." Milton. Let thy troops beset our gates. Addison.

To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset. Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. Shak.

A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.

enus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceæ, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.

g bridle, an instrument formerly used for correcting scolding women. It was an iron frame surrounding the head and having a triangular piece entering the mouth of the scold.

To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.

ore brilliant. It has at the middle, or top, a principal face, called the table, which is surrounded by a number of sloping facets forming a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the gridle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, wh…

British lion, the national emblem of Great Britain. -- British seas, the four seas which surround Great Britain.

A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda. [India]