The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . eir sashes the men wear rounds of stitfened rus-set, to defend tlieii brains fmm the piercing fervor. Sandi/K, Travailes, p. 85. As this pale tapers earthly yonder argent round [the mi>on], Teniiifgon, St. Agnes arches of the round [circular stage! rest on heavyrectangular piers of truly Roman strength. K A. Freeman, Venice, p. 133. Specitically —(n) A rung of a ladder or a chair, or any shn-ilar round or spindle-shaped piece joining side-
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . eir sashes the men wear rounds of stitfened rus-set, to defend tlieii brains fmm the piercing fervor. Sandi/K, Travailes, p. 85. As this pale tapers earthly yonder argent round [the mi>on], Teniiifgon, St. Agnes arches of the round [circular stage! rest on heavyrectangular piers of truly Roman strength. K A. Freeman, Venice, p. 133. Specitically —(n) A rung of a ladder or a chair, or any shn-ilar round or spindle-shaped piece joining side- or corner-pieces by its ends. That lowliness is young ambitions ladder; . .But, when he once attiUns the utmost then unto the ladder turns his back. Shak., J. C, ii. 1. 24. Wliere all the routidx like .Jacobs huider rise. Dnjden, Hind and Panther, ii. 220. (b) In arch., a molding the section of which is a segmentof a circle or of a curved figure differing but little from acircle. 2. In art, form rounded or curved and stand-ing free in nature or representation; specili-cally, the i)resentation in sculpture of complete. Figure tn the Sleeping Ariadne, in the V-iticin Museum. roundness, represented witli its projection onall sides, as in nature, free from any Krounil,as distin<ruislied fioin rrVuf: used with thedefinite article, especially with reference tosculi)tures of human and animal fiijiires. Ihe progress of sculpture in the round fnim the Rran-cbida; statues U* the perfect art td Pbeiilias maybe tracedthrough a series of transition specimens. C. T- Sewton, Art and Archniol., p. 81. To the training In this school, and the habit of drawingfrom the round, ... wo may be indebted for the careful 5243 drawing and motU-lIng of thedetnllsof his pictures whichdlMtinguisb .Miintegna fmm all bis contemponirieA. The Century, \X\IX. sm;. 3. A circle; a riiif? or coil; a Kutheriiif^ in acircle or company, as of persons. [Rare.] lliin (the serpent) fast sleeping
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