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Around; all round; on every side of. "Look about you." Shak. "Bind them about thy neck." Prov. iii. 3.

The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.

A going out of the way; a digression. [Obs.] Fuller.

A gadder [Colloq.]

A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.

About this place; in this vicinity.

Marked by knocking about or roughness.

A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.

A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.

A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about. To send to the right-about, to cause to turn toward the opposite point or quarter; -- hence, of troops, to cause to turn and retreat. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.…

Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech. We have taken a terrible roundabout road. Burke.

The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.

A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs. [Western U.S.]

consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.

Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts. Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts. Shak. Some three months since, or thereabout. Suckling.

About where; near what or which place; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him

Something that whirls or turns about in a rapid manner; a whirligig.

as in fate, etc., is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 17th century, was a sound of the quality of ä (as in far).

A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]

A silver coin of Persia, worth about twenty cents.