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ng, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round. In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Milton. The prince . . . has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout. Goldsmith.

An outbreak; a caprice; a whim. [Obs.]

An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels. [Obs.] Animated by . . . John à Chamber, a very boutefeu, . . . they entered into open rebellion. Bacon.

A bouquet worn in a buttonhole.

Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.

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 flying buttress. Gwilt.

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.]

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