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(en noun)

(lb) To do with a place or places.

#A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.

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#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

#*:The way seems difficult, and steep to scale.

#*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

#*:The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.}}

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, title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere.

#A means to enter or leave a place.

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, chapter=14 citation , passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}

#A roughly-defined geographical area.

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A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.

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, chapter=4, title= Lord Stranleigh Abroad , passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.

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, chapter=2, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way' she laughed, cackling like a hen, the ' way she talked to the waiters and the maid,

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*{{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}

(lb) Personal interaction.

#Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').

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#Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.

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(lb) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.

(lb) Speed, progress, momentum.

*1977 , (w, Richard O'Kane), Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang , Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:

*:Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way .

A degree, an amount, a sense.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way . The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}

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(en noun)

The name of the letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.

Noun

(en noun)

A circular or spherical object or part of an object.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:the golden round [the crown]

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:in labyrinth of many a round self-rolled

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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

*1955 , (William Golding), , Faber and Faber 2005, p.50:

*:All at once the sun was through, a round of dulled silver, racing slantwise through the clouds yet always staying in the same place.

A circular or repetitious route.

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*, chapter=15

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round . But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}

A general outburst from a group of people at an event.

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A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.

A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.

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*(Charles Dickens), (Dombey and Son)

*:There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.

A single individual portion or dose of medicine.

*2009 , Patrick Condon, "Boy with cancer, mom return home", Associated Press, printed in Austin American-Statesman , 2009 May 26, page A4:

*:Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs.

(lb) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.

A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.

(lb) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.

*April 19 2002 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville [http://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/]

*:And though Fightville, an MMA documentary from the directors of the fine Iraq War doc Gunner Palace, presents it more than fairly, the sight of a makeshift ring getting constructed on a Louisiana rodeo ground does little to shake the label. Nor do the shots of ringside assistants with spray bottles and rags, mopping up the blood between rounds

(lb) A stage in a competition.

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(lb) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.

A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.

A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.

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(lb) The hindquarters of a bovine.

(lb) A rung, as of a ladder.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise.

*1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,

*:The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.

A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.

A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.

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A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.

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*:Women to cards may be compared: we play / A round or two; which used, we throw away.

*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)

*:The feast was served; the bowl was crowned; / To the king's pleasure went the mirthful round .

A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.

*(John Keble) (1792-1866)

*:the trivial round , the common task

A circular dance.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / In a light fantastic round .

Rotation, as in office; succession.

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A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.

An assembly; a group; a circle.

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A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.

(lb) A vessel filled, as for drinking.

(lb) A round-top.

A round of beef.

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(archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.

(archaic, or, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.