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Collected into a rounded head of flowers.

A round white staylace. Beck.

An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail.

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. [Spelt also edgebone.]

A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper.

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).

The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.

e of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

On high; in the air; high above the ground. "He steers his flight aloft." Milton.

upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.

A prefix meaning about, around; -- used in words derived from the Latin.

Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient. Sir H. Wotton.

in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.

In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among. "This fair tree amidst the garden." "Unseen amid the throng." "Amidst thick clouds." Milton. "Amidst acclamations." "Amidst the splendor and festivity of a court." Macaulay. But rather famish them amid their plenty. Shak.

A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton.

Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.

A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.