Adder's-tongue (n.) A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. |
Adder's-tongue (n.) The yellow dogtooth violet. |
Bird's-tongue (n.) The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). |
Deer's-tongue (n.) A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla. |
Dog's-tongue (n.) Hound's-tongue. |
Double-tongue (n.) Deceit |
Earth-tongue (n.) A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. |
Hart-tongue (n.) A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America. |
Hart-tongue (n.) A West Indian fern, the Polypodium Phyllitidis of Linnaeus. It is also found in Florida. |
Hound's-tongue (n.) A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue. |
Long-tongue (n.) The wryneck. |
Merry-go-round (n.) Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement |
Quarter round () An ovolo. |
Round (v. i. & t.) To whisper. |
Round (a.) Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center |
Round (a.) Having the form of a cylinder |
Round (a.) Having a curved outline or form |
Round (a.) Full |
Round (a.) Not inconsiderable |
Round (a.) Uttered or emitted with a full tone |
Round (a.) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, making the opening more or less round in shape |
Round (a.) Outspoken |
Round (a.) Full and smoothly expanded |
Round (a.) Complete and consistent |
Round (n.) Anything round, as a circle, a globe, a ring. "The golden round" [the crown]. |
Round (n.) A series of changes or events ending where it began |
Round (n.) A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle. |
Round (n.) A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated. |
Round (n.) A circular dance. |
Round (n.) That which goes round a whole circle or company |
Round (n.) Rotation, as in office |
Round (n.) The step of a ladder |
Round (n.) A course ending where it began |
Round (n.) A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe |
Round (n.) A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once. |
Round (n.) Ammunition for discharging a piece or pieces once |
Round (n.) A short vocal piece, resembling a catch in which three or four voices follow each other round in a species of canon in the unison. |
Round (n.) The time during which prize fighters or boxers are in actual contest without an intermission, as prescribed by their rules |
Round (n.) A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole. |
Round (n.) A vessel filled, as for drinking. |
Round (n.) An assembly |
Round (n.) See Roundtop. |
Round (n.) Same as Round of beef, below. |
Round (adv.) On all sides |
Round (adv.) Circularly |
Round (adv.) In circumference |
Round (adv.) From one side or party to another |
Round (adv.) By or in a circuit |
Round (adv.) Through a circle, as of friends or houses. |
Round (adv.) Roundly |
round trip | a trip to some place and back again |
round daily round | the usual activities in your day, the doctor made his rounds |
round of golf round | the activity of playing holes of golf, a round of golf takes about hours |
round dance round dancing | a ballroom dance characterized by revolving movement |
round dance ring dance | a folk dance, dancers form a circle |
round-thelock patrol | a continuous nonstop patrol |
round | (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order), the doctor goes on his rounds first thing every morning, the postman's rounds, we enjoyed our round of the local bars |
tongue worm pentastomid | wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth, parasitic in nasal sinuses of mammals |
quahog quahaug hard-shell clam hard clam round clam Venus mercenaria Mercenaria mercenaria | an edible American clam, the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians |
round-tailed muskrat Florida water rat Neofiber alleni | of Florida wetlands |
round whitefish Menominee whitefish Prosopium cylindraceum | a whitefish with a bronze back, of northern North America and Siberia |
round scad cigarfish quiaquia Decapterus punctatus | small fusiform fish of western Atlantic |
tonguefish tongue-fish | left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point, of little commercial value |
arena theater theater in the round | a theater arranged with seats around at least three sides of the stage |
bull tongue | a heavy plow with a single wide blade, used chiefly in cotton fields |
cannonball cannon ball round shot | a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon |
circle round | any circular or rotating mechanism, the machine punched out metal circles |
circus tent big top round top top | a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance, he was afraid of a fire in the circus tent, they had the big top up in less than an hour |
clapper tongue | metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side |
egg-and-dart egg-and-anchor egg-and-tongue | a decorative molding, a series of egg-shaped figures alternating with another shape |
ovolo thumb quarter round | a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse |
round unit of ammunition one shot | a charge of ammunition for a single shot |
round arch | an arch formed in a continuous curve, characteristic of Roman architecture |
round-bottom flask | a spherical flask with a narrow neck |
round file | a file with a circular cross section, used to file the inside of holes |
Round Table King Arthur's Round Table | (legend) the circular table for King Arthur and his knights |
rung round stave | a crosspiece between the legs of a chair |
tongue | the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot |
tongue and groove joint | a mortise joint made by fitting a projection on the edge of one board into a matching groove on another board |
tongue depressor | a thin depressor used to press the tongue down during an examination of the mouth and throat |
round bone | bones that are round in shape |
round ligament of the uterus ligamentum teres uteri | ligament attached to the uterus on either side in front of and below the opening of the Fallopian tube and passing through the inguinal canal to the labia majora |
tongue lingua glossa clapper | a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity |
fenestra rotunda fenestra cochleae round window fenestra of the cochlea | fenestra leading into the cochlea |
round hand | a clearly written style of longhand with large round curves |
round-trip ticket return ticket | a ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route) |
round robin | a letter signed by a number of people |
round | an outburst of applause, there was a round of applause |
chiding scolding objurgation tongue-lashingcd | rebuking a person harshly |
slip of the tongue | an accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking |
natural language tongue | a human written or spoken language used by a community, opposed to e.g. a computer language |
mother tongue maternal language first language | one's native language, the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next |
round troll | a partsong in which voices follow each other, one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time, they enjoyed singing rounds |
tongue | a manner of speaking, he spoke with a thick tongue, she has a glib tongue |
sharp tongue | a bitter or critical manner of speaking |
tongue twister | an expression that is difficult to articulate clearly, `rubber baby buggy bumper' is a tongue twister |
round table roundtable round-table conference | a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views, a roundtable on the future of computing |
round robin | a tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant |
tongue | the tongue of certain animals used as meat |
beef tongue | the tongue of a cow eaten as meat |