Hump (n.) A protuberance |
Hump (n.) A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale. |
Hump-shouldered (a.) Having high, hunched shoulders. |
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 (prep.) On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle |
Round (v. t.) To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical |
Round (v. t.) To surround |
Round (v. t.) To bring to fullness or completeness |
Round (v. t.) To go round wholly or in part |
Round (v. t.) To make full, smooth, and flowing |
Round (v. i.) To grow round or full |
Round (v. i.) To go round, as a guard. |
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 |
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 |
arena theater theater in the round | a theater arranged with seats around at least three sides of the stage |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
round | a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg |
round steak | a lean cut of beef from between the rump and the shank |
top round | roast cut from the round, usually suitable for roasting |
bottom round | cut from the round, suitable for pot roast |
quahaug quahog hard-shell clam round clam | Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells, large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes |
round round of drinks | a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic), he ordered a second round |
beat round | a regular route for a sentry or policeman, in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name |
paper route paper round | the route taken when delivering newspapers every day |
round | the course along which communications spread, the story is going the rounds in Washington |
Knight of the Round Table | in the Arthurian legend, a knight of King Arthur's court |
round-leaved rein orchid Habenaria orbiculata | orchid having a raceme of large greenish-white flowers on a single flower stalk growing between two elliptic or round basal leaves lying on the ground, from northern Oregon and Montana across Canada to the eastern United States |
round-headed leek Allium sphaerocephalum | Old World leek with a spherical bulb |
marumi marumi kumquat round kumquat Fortunella japonica | shrub bearing round-fruited kumquats |
Gyromitra sphaerospora round-spored gyromitra | a gyromitra with a brown puffed up fertile part and a rosy pink fluted stalk and smooth round spores, found on hardwood slash east of the Great Plains |
round shape | a shape that is curved and without sharp angles |
perigon round angle | an angle ofdegrees |
c bulge bump hump swelling gibbosity gibbousness jut prominence protuberance protrusion extrusion excrescence a caa | something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings, the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge, the hump of a camel, he stood on the rocky prominence, the occipital protuberance was well developed, the bony excrescence between its horns |
dowager's hump | abnormal spinal curvature that results when osteoporosis causes the spine to collapse, seen most often in elderly women |