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whereabout, interrog. and rel. adv., n.
(ˈhwɛərəˈbaʊt: stress var.)
[f. where 15 + about.]
1. a. interrog. About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position? Now rare: replaced by whereabouts 1.
a1300Cursor M. 15429 Quar abute abide yee nu? 1484Caxton Fables of æsop iv. xiii, My broder and my frend where aboute is thy sore? c1566J. Alday tr. Boaystuau's Theat. World (1581) K iij, My shooe is new,..wel made, but you know not where about it doeth hurt & grieue me. 1665Phil. Trans. I. 39 His Ephemerides directing where⁓about it is to be. 1720S. Sewall Diary 4 Nov. (1882) III. 274, I ask'd her Whereabout we left off last time. 1736Butler Anal. i. iv, One irregularity after another embarrasses things to such a degree that they know not whereabout they are. c1850Arab. Nts. (Rtldg.) 175, I desired the owner of the ass to enquire whereabout the house..was. 1861H. Kingsley Ravenshoe xviii, She..used to look over to where the ship lay beneath the sea, and wonder whereabout it was. 1908Kipling Lett. of Travel (1920) 188 ‘And where⁓about do they go?’ I asked. ‘Oh, all about anywheres.’
(b) Contextually, with love: cf. where 10 b (b).
15..in Dunbar's Poems (S.T.S.) 308 Fane wald I luve, bot quhair abowt? Thair is so mony luvaris thairowt, That thair is left no place to me.
†b. rel. About or near which place; in the neighbourhood of which. Obs. rare.
1722Whiston The. Earth ii. 218 At..Pekin..whereabout probably Noah liv'd immediately before the Deluge.
2.
†a. interrog. About or concerning what? on what business or occupation? Obs.
13..Northern Passion (1913) I. 85/2 We wist noght whare obout þou went. c1425Cast. Persev. 2367 in Macro Plays 148 Where-a-bowte stonde ȝe al day? 1560Bible (Geneva) 1 Sam. xxi. 2 Let no man knowe whereabout I send thee. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iii. 107, I must not haue you henceforth, question me, Whether I go: nor reason where⁓about. 1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Andria iv. iii, Where⁓about goest thou?
b. rel. About, concerning, or in regard to which. ? Obs.
1538Elyot Dict., Operatio, the wark, or that wheraboute a man laboureth. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxvii. §12 Those things whereabout they differ. a1653Binning Serm., Rom. viii. 2 Wks. (1735) 200 That whereabout the Thoughts and Discourses of Men now run.
3. rel. About or around which. ? Obs.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 267/2 Axis,..the axeltree or the axetree where about the wheeles turne.
4. as n. |ˈhwɛərəbaʊt|. [from 1.] With possessive or of: The place in or near which a person or thing is; (approximate) position or situation. Now replaced by whereabouts 3.
1605Shakes. Macb. ii. i. 58 For feare Thy very stones prate of my where-about. 1786Cowper Let. to Bagot 17 Nov., Wks. 1836 II. 263 That..I shall derive considerable advantage..from the alteration made in my where⁓about. 1814Cary Dante, Parad. xii. 27 A voice That made me seem like needle to the star, In turning to its whereabout. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. ix, By degrees, the eye grows accustomed to its new Whereabout. 1861Musgrave By-Roads & Battle-F. 170 Both armies..were then within a few days of each other's whereabout. |