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rts. Cowper. Round about, an emphatic form for round or about. "Moses . . . set them [The elders] round about the tabernacle." Num. xi. 24. -- To come round, to gain the consent of, or circumvent, (a person) by flattery or deception. [Colloq.]

A genus of shrubs and trees; the elder.

One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), anf the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.

A fielder in a game for practice.

A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority. The senate was thus the medium through which all affairs of the whole government had to pass. Dr. W. Smith.

More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.

n addressing a man, without being prefixed to his name; -- used especially in speaking to elders or superiors; sometimes, also, used in the way of emphatic formality. "What's that to you, sir" Sheridan.

A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign.

To beg; to pilfer; to skelder. [Prov. Eng.& Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A fielder stationed on the off side and to the rear of the batsman. There are usually two of them, called respectively short slip, and long slip. To give one the slip, to slip away from one; to elude one. -- Slip dock. See under Dock. -- Slip link (Mach.), a connecting link so arranged as to allow some play of the pa…

The Guelder-rose. Snowball tree (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.

A corrupt form of Sou. [Obs.] Colman, the Elder.

hip for two persons, aged 25 and 65, are 89 and 11 respectively, or about 8 to 1 that the elder die first.

is composed of several adjoining presbyteries. The members are the ministers and a ruling elder from each parish.

A short fly that falls too far out to be handled by an infielder and too close in to be caught by an outfielder. [Cant]

honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence; to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders. And seemed to venerate the sacred shade. Dryden. I do not know a man more to be venerated for uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius. Sir W. Scott.

lity or power of turning; revolution; rotation. [R.] Locke. I hardly believe he hath from elder times unknown the verticity of the loadstone. Sir T. Browne.

owers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.

The dwarf elder, or danewort (Sambucus Ebulus).

Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak. Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this. Shak.