roundwiseadv.adj.

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. xx. f. 117^v, in R. Holinshed Chron. I King Edwarde the first..did first coine the peny & smallest peeces of siluer roundewyse.

1609 Bible (Douay) I. Lev. xix. 27 Neither shal you cut your heare roundwise: nor shaue your beard.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iii. x. 361 Percolation of the breath betwixt both the Lips contracted round-wise which makes the vocal whistling sound.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Larch-Tree It produces its Branches roundwise, at some equal Distance from each other.

1820 Mrs. Frazer Pract. of Cookery (ed. 7) 102 Cut the other half in slices, neither too long nor too short, and cut the fleshy part of the ears roundwise.

1893 B. Senior 100 Years at Surrey Chapel vi. 83 The old chapel was crowded from one side to the other—if, indeed, there was a side to it, for Rowland Hill had it built roundwise.

1903 C. Eustis Cooking in Old Créole Days 44 Slice five or six carrots roundwise.

1939 ‘F. O'Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds i. 98 The lot [sc. chains] were about the madman, and through him and above him and over him, roundwise and about.

1991 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 14 Mar. Cut the cumquats (roundwise) and put the pips into a basin.

1674 tr. Abu Bakr Ibn A Tufail Acct. Oriental Philos. 81 They moved round-wise, some about their own center, others about the centers of others.

1861 W. Collins Tom Tiddler's Ground iv, in All Year Round Extra Christmas No. 12 Dec. 27/2 Mr. Smallchild nodded his head roundwise on his pillow—and fell asleep.

1896 Cornhill Mag. July 55 As he takes up the little tea-pot and shakes it roundwise, after the manner of the galley, his great brown hand shakes too.

1925 D. H. Lawrence Refl. Death of Porcupine 197 He jerked his head, this way, that way, up, down, sideways, roundwise, as one's fingers came slowly, slowly, to seize a quill.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ii. xxviii. 23 The form (as when with breath our bag-pipes rise, And swell) round-wise, and long, yet long-wise more.

1911 A. B. Comstock Handbk. of Nature Study ii. 302/1 It is now brilliant caraway green, ornamented with roundwise stripes of velvety black.

2004 D. W. Jones Unexpected Magic 97 She studied the bark on the outside and then the longwise grains and the roundwise rings of the interior.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Apocalypse (1932) 42 The roundwise moving of the cosmos.