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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

And the Artilerie, I woulde place a longe the Trenche of the Campe, rounde aboute the same.

From Machiavelli, Volume I by Dacres, Edward

Aboute the sea coaste towarde the weste, ther bordereth vpon them the Maces: whiche shaue their heades in the crowne, and clyppe them rounde by the sides.

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

Within there were foure seates whiche went rounde about, and one vnder an other, and close knitte togither, wroght with Iasper and Calcedony stone, in all kinde of colours.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert

Plato's year has not come rounde, but they have got father to court, and the king seems minded never to let him goe.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various