transitive. To encompass, enclose, comprehend.

To wrap round, enclose, encircle, surround.

To go round; to compass, encompass. Obsolete.

transitive. To surround, encompass.

To stand round in hostility; to beset, press hard upon, harass.

intransitive. To encircle, encompass, or surround wholly or partially.

to go round, to surround.

transitive. To hem round. literal and figurative.

? To surround. Obsolete. rare.

To run round about, encompass.

Said of that which surrounds: To encircle, enclose, confine.

transitive. To surround on all sides.

transitive. To encompass, surround.

transitive. To surround.

transitive. To surround, enclose.

transitive. To go around, to encircle; to surround with something.

(Predicated of the thing which lies around): To encircle, clasp or coil round (about). Obsolete.

To encompass by going round. Obsolete. rare.

Of things: To surround, bound on all sides; to envelop, contain.

transitive. To encompass, surround.

To entwine, encircle, surround; to clasp, enclose. literal and figurative.

To wind or draw round; to encompass.

transitive. To surround or encompass with, or as with, a circle; to enclose in a circle; = encircle, v. 1 (Now chiefly poetic).

transitive. To surround, encircle.

transitive. To encompass; surround. Obsolete.

transitive. To encompass, envelop, enclose on all sides; (also) to screen or conceal from (now chiefly of the atmosphere, light, etc.). Formerly…

transitive. To surround, encircle.

To encircle, environ, lie round and enclose, as the sea, a girdle, etc. Also with round, about, in.

transitive. To enclose in a circle. To surround, gird, encompass with.

transitive. To border; ? to surround.

to surround.

transitive. To surround, encompass, beset.

to surround.

to encircle, surround.

transitive. To surround, encircle.

transitive. To encircle, encompass. Obsolete.

to surround.

transitive. To environ, surround.

transitive. To encompass, enclose; to occupy. rare.

to environ.

transitive. Originally Scottish. To encircle as or like a belt; to form a ring around; to surround. Also: to surround or encircle with a wall…

transitive. To gird, surround, encompass.

transitive. To cover over or encircle completely with or as with a belt or girdle. Obsolete.

To surround as a girdle does; to encircle. Also figurative.

= environ, v. (It is doubtful whether the first quot. belongs here.)

transitive. To enclose, encircle, or surround. Now rare.

To encompass, surround, gird, encircle; also, causally, to put round, make to surround. (Now usually with some notion of 3 combined.)

to surround.

to compass about.

transitive. To surround, encircle.

transitive. = gird, v.1 in various senses.

to surround.

By-form of circulate, v., circle, v.

To encircle as a ring or girdle; to surround, bound on all sides.

transitive. To go or run round; to encircle, encompass, surround. Obsolete.

transitive. To surround.

transitive. To surround, enclose. Now rare.

transitive. To surround with, or as with, a girdle; to encircle, as a girdle does. Also, to engird in.

transitive. To surround, encompass.

transitive. To engirdle.

transitive. To enclose, encircle. Cf. imply, v. 1. Obsolete. rare.

To pass round, encompass, encircle.

transitive. To surround with a girdle. Also to girdle about, in, round. (Chiefly transferred and figurative.)

transferred. transitive. To encircle, surround, encompass. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To ‘go round’, encompass. rare.

To form a ring round; to surround, encircle. literal and figurative. Also, to form into a ring.

transitive. To be in a position or arrangement surrounding (something), to encompass, encircle. Also with round, around, about. Also figurative.

transitive. To enclose in a ring.

To encompass, encircle; to clasp, embrace. Also figurative.

Variant of envire, v. Obsolete, to environ.

transitive. To encircle.

to girdle round.

transitive. = engirt, v.

transitive. To surround with, or as with, a girdle; to serve as a girdle or enclosure to; to encompass. Also figurative.

To encircle.

To encompass (without a line), to encircle.

transitive. To surround, encompass, enclose. (It has not the literal sense of begird.)

intransitive. To encircle, enclose, or surround something (frequently with the implication of being sufficient).

transitive. To encircle, surround.

To enclose, encompass, or beset on all sides; to stand, lie, or be situated around; also, to form the entourage of; often passive const. with or by…

transitive. To girdle round.

transitive. To surround as with a circle; to hem in.

to environ on all sides.

transitive. To enclose in, or as in, an orb or circle; to surround, encircle; to encompass with, or as with, a rim.

transitive. To form the circumference of, to encompass.

transitive. To encircle, surround.

to gird round, or about.

to stretch around.

transferred. To crowd round like a besieging army; to block up, hem in.

transitive. To girdle, gird; to encircle, encompass, surround.

transitive. To furnish with, or surround like, a zone or girdle; to gird, encircle.

transitive. To encircle (the neck, throat, etc.) with, or as if with, a cravat; to tie a cravat around.

transitive. To surround with, or as with, a belt or girdle; to girdle.

To encompass, enclose (literally).

transitive. To encompass or bind like a girdle or belt.

gen. transitive. figurative. To go around, encircle (a thing). Obsolete. rare.

To enclose with, or to cut off with, a cordon (senses 3 4). Also figurative.