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Round hand   /raʊnd hænd/   Listen
adjective
Round  adj.  
1.
Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center; spherical; circular; having a form approaching a spherical or a circular shape; orbicular; globular; as, a round ball. "The big, round tears." "Upon the firm opacous globe Of this round world."
2.
Having the form of a cylinder; cylindrical; as, the barrel of a musket is round.
3.
Having a curved outline or form; especially, one like the arc of a circle or an ellipse, or a portion of the surface of a sphere; rotund; bulging; protuberant; not angular or pointed; as, a round arch; round hills. "Their round haunches gored."
4.
Full; complete; not broken; not fractional; approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.; said of numbers. "Pliny put a round number near the truth, rather than the fraction."
5.
Not inconsiderable; large; hence, generous; free; as, a round price. "Three thousand ducats; 'tis a good round sum." "Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon."
6.
Uttered or emitted with a full tone; as, a round voice; a round note.
7.
(Phonetics) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, making the opening more or less round in shape; rounded; labialized; labial.
8.
Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; unqualified; not mincing; as, a round answer; a round oath. "The round assertion." "Sir Toby, I must be round with you."
9.
Full and smoothly expanded; not defective or abrupt; finished; polished; said of style, or of authors with reference to their style. (Obs.) "In his satires Horace is quick, round, and pleasant."
10.
Complete and consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct. "Round dealing is the honor of man's nature."
At a round rate, rapidly.
In round numbers, approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, etc.; as, a bin holding 99 or 101 bushels may be said to hold in round numbers 100 bushels.
Round bodies (Geom.), the sphere right cone, and right cylinder.
Round clam (Zool.), the quahog.
Round dance one which is danced by couples with a whirling or revolving motion, as the waltz, polka, etc.
Round game, a game, as of cards, in which each plays on his own account.
Round hand, a style of penmanship in which the letters are formed in nearly an upright position, and each separately distinct; distinguished from running hand.
Round robin.
(a)
A written petition, memorial, remonstrance, protest, etc., the signatures to which are made in a circle so as not to indicate who signed first. "No round robins signed by the whole main deck of the Academy or the Porch."
(b)
(Zool.) The cigar fish.
Round shot, a solid spherical projectile for ordnance.
Round Table, the table about which sat King Arthur and his knights. See Knights of the Round Table, under Knight.
Round tower, one of certain lofty circular stone towers, tapering from the base upward, and usually having a conical cap or roof, which crowns the summit, found chiefly in Ireland. They are of great antiquity, and vary in heigh from thirty-five to one hundred and thiry feet.
Round trot, one in which the horse throws out his feet roundly; a full, brisk, quick trot.
Round turn (Naut.), one turn of a rope round a timber, a belaying pin, etc.
To bring up with a round turn, to stop abruptly. (Colloq.)
Synonyms: Circular; spherical; globular; globase; orbicular; orbed; cylindrical; full; plump; rotund.





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"Round hand" Quotes from Famous Books



... "4. The round hand of the schoolmaster, under the House of Hanover, degenerating into the careless, half-formed hands of the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861 • Various
... will greatly dare and count his life but as dross when his incentive to enterprise is merely filthy lucre. But I could trust Andreas to dare and to endure—to overcome obstacles, and, if man could, to "get there," where, in the base-quarters in Bucharest, the amanuenses were waiting to copy out in round hand for the foreign telegraphist the rapid script of the correspondent scribbling for life in the saddle or the cleft of a commanding tree while the shells were whistling past. We missed him dreadfully when he was gone—even Villiers, ...
— The Idler, Volume III., Issue XIII., February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly. Edited By Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr • Various
... passed to writing. For that day M. Hamel had prepared for us some quite fresh copies, on which was written in beautiful round hand: France, Alsace, France, Alsace. They looked like little banners floating round the class room on the rail of our desks. To see how hard every one tried! And what a silence there was! One could hear nothing but the scraping of the pens on the paper. Once some cock-chafers flew in; but nobody took ...
— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood
... C, and an E, and an R, and an I, and a J. That's a word by itself. 'Mucerij.' But what word can he mean? It can't be mucilage; that's impossible! I thought it might be museum at first, as it was to be shown. But it's written too plain, in a big round hand—all in capitals. What can it be?" And Gwen sat there puzzling, turning the word this way and that, looking all the lovelier for the ripple of amusement on her face at the absurd penmanship of ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... the Yeld post-master was exercised in his mind by hearing a loud rap down-stairs, which on inquiry he found to have proceeded from the discharge of 150 mysterious-looking halfpenny missives, written in a very round hand, into his box. Being an active and intelligent person, he felt it his duty to examine one, addressed, as it happened, to the Duke of Somewhere. After some consideration, and a study of his rules and regulations, he came to the conclusion that the enclosure was of the nature of a letter, and thereupon ...
— Roger Ingleton, Minor • Talbot Baines Reed


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