rounde

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Lykewyse a rounde piller, and a spyre made of a rounde spyre, slytte in ij. partes long ways.

From The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie by Record, Robert

There stondeth also rounde about the Toombe a multitude of the communes, which with their voices allowe asmuche as is trew, and crie out vpon that, that is false, with vehement gainsaienges.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard

Gerard says that the plant is so named from the “similitude or likeness of Domesticall Mise, which the blacke, rounde, and long nuts, with a peece of the slender string hanging out behind do represent.”

From Springtime and Other Essays by Darwin, Francis, Sir

The sepulcre is grated rounde about wyth yrone, that no man shall graet or pycke out any stones.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew

In this yere the kyng made newe money of silver called half penys and farthynges, alle rounde, of whiche were none sen before.

From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir