all roundadv.adj.prep.n.

a1535 T. More Wks. (1557) sig. .iii^v Fame I am called, maruayle you nothing, Though with tonges am compassed all rounde.

1572 L. Mascall tr. D. Brossard L'Art et Maniere de Semer vi, in Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees 44 Ye must digge well the earth, principally all round ouer the rootes.

1596 B. Griffin Fidessa sig. D3 See where my Loue sits in the beds of spices, Beset all round with Camphere, Myrrhe and Roses.

1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania iv. 443 Shee..made plats [in her hair], and wound them at last all round.

1697 C. Gildon Rom. Brides Revenge i. ii. 5 Nothing but wild Confusion is all round.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Foundry They first loosen them a little all round, with a small cutting Instrument.

1774 F. Burney Early Diary (1889) I. 324 He presented his plate to me, which, when I declined, he had not the over-shot politeness to offer all round.

1853 C. Brontë Villette I. xii. 205 There were houses all round now.

1861 Baily's Monthly Mag. July 140 A stronger Eleven ‘all round’ never came from Cambridge.

1885 Ld. Tennyson Poet. Wks. II. 638/1 Hands all round! God the traitor's hope confound!

1918 W. Owen Let. 15 June (1967) 559 I have now a waterproof tent with long grass & buttercups all round to act as dustscreens.

1944 Austral. New Writing 36 You come back here tomorrow night..and it's..drinks all round!

1959 H. P. Tritton Time means Tucker 7 Work was scarce and wages low, and conditions all-round were tough.

1988 P. Sayer Comforts of Madness (1989) ii. 16 It would be a bad day all round and I would be glad when it was over.

2004 L. Sutherland Venus as Boy 58 It was black all round. No stars.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 177 A shining Iauelin; which he saw, and shund; with gathring round His body, in his all-round shield [Gk. ἀσπίδι πάντοσ᾽ ἐίσῃ].

1855 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. Mar. 155 Ships wanting a pilot might..attach an all-round white light with a lanyard three feet below the signal lantern.

1875 Encycl. Brit. IV. 7/1 Unmasted turret ships, which have an all-round fire.

1921 Discovery Apr. 97/2 The pilot's seat is on the top of the fuselage and gives a clear all-round view.

1970 Single Sideband for Radio Amateur (Amer. Radio Relay League) (ed. 5) ii. 39/1 Be sure the v.f.o. shield makes a good all-round contact with the chassis.

1998 Automotive Engineer Mar. 24/2 The body..offers the driver better all-round vision than some of its competitors.

1867 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Aug. 15 A particularly good all round cricketer.

1869 C. H. T. Crosthwaite Notes North-Western Provinces India 98 We find an all-round rent of so much per acre charged on the cultivation.

1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 132 The best all-round gun for sporting purposes is the 12-bore with 30-inch barrels.

1942 Endeavour Jan. 32/2 No multivitamin ‘pill’..can at present replace a mixed all-round diet.

1958 New Statesman 6 Dec. 802/3 An excellent all-round performance by the Guildford Repertory Company.

1991 Rage 13 Feb. 36 Resident bible-basher and all round busy-body Dot Cotton.

a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) v. ii. 317 The barques which the Spaniards had laid in guard all round the city [Fr. tout autour de la ville].

1675 J. Gedde New Discov. Bee-houses 3 At the top of the Box there is a crease or rebbit all round it, about half an inch in depth on the outside.

1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals I. 448 This was on a little rising Ground, planted with a Star-Grove, through the Avenues of which they could see all round them without being discerned themselves.

1786 T. Jefferson Notes in Papers (1954) X. 326 Make a border of engravers wax all round the writing.

1805 Log of ‘Entreprenante’ 21 Oct. in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. 209 Cutter's head all round the compass during the night.

1865 A. C. Swinburne Dolores 249 With flame all round him aspirant Stood flushed..the tyrant.

1912 J. Stephens Crock of Gold v. 40 There was a raggedy blackberry hedge all round the field.

1948 M. Sharp Flowering Thorn ii. i. 55 It's got bobbles all round the edge.

1952 M. Laski Village xv. 213 Within twenty-four hours of Miss Beltram seeing them on the park bench, it was all round the village.

2004 Church Times 12 Mar. 32/3 How strange that so many strangers are living all round me.

1851 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 9 326/2 The landlord..subsided into a chivalrous offer of standing glasses of ‘Old Tom’ all round... The ‘all round’ comprised some thirty ladies and gentlemen.

1855 Littell's Living Age 23 June 706/1 The species of collars call'd ‘all rounds’.

1859 Atlantic Monthly June 769/2 If any of my young friends should be tempted to waste their substance on white kids and ‘all-rounds’,..I will give them references to some of the class referred to.

1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 202 ‘All Rounds’, or ‘All Rounders’, names of fashionable collars.

1854 (title) Revelations of an all-round collar.

1883 Puck (N.Y.) 14 Mar. 27/1 The great question of the day at present is, how to wear a high all-round collar and still be able to sneeze hard without cutting your throat.

1916 J. D. Beresford These Lynnekers i. ii. 25 Edward, in his all-round collar, and wearing the air of a most elegant deacon, preserved his dignity by a smile of approving condescension.

1863 Illustr. London News 31 Jan. 119/1 Surely three all-round men can be found in the two ‘Elevens’ to beard the Cambridge trio.

1895 W. James in Psychol. Rev. 2 293 We find the all-round men like Washington, Cavour, and Gladstone.

1943 H. G. Lamond From Tariaro to Ross Roy 27 Shearers then were bushmen, all round men, who did all classes of station work.

1992 Guardian (Nexis) 15 Jan. 37 Despite more than half a century of enforced immobility, David was an all-round man.

1873 Aberdeen Jrnl. 27 Aug. 8/5 The best men have always been remarkable for the all-roundness of their talent.

1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 47 Doubting the inevitability and all-roundness of progress, Biran began to feel very dubious about that Future to which the Liberals looked forward with such sanguine hope.

2002 Irish Times (Nexis) 1 July 55 The ability to return with venom off any height or at any angle gives Hewitt an all-roundness that most players don't possess.