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Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 11.

In a grounded or firmly established manner. Glanvill.

Collected into a rounded head of flowers.

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.

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

Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater.

One of the rounded prominences of the lower surface of the lateral hemispheres of the cerebellum, each side of the vallecula.

plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

Furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color.

A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle.

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.

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.

Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front. "A bluff or bold shore." Falconer. Its banks, if not really steep, had a bluff and precipitous aspect. Judd.

A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.

The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.

A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.

To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon. Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms. Locke.

Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well- bottomed.

with knobs or buttons. Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.