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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Surround

Sur-round', v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SURROUNDED; p. pr. & vb. n. SURROUNDING.] [Prefix sur and round.]

  1. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ; as, to surround a city.
  2. To lie or be on all sides of; as, a wall or ditch surrounds the city.
  3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the globe. [Obs.]
  4. (Mil.) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.

Syn.—To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about.

Sur-round', n.

noun

A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd of them, and driving them over a precipice, or into a ravine, or other place from which they can not escape. S. F. Baird.