资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Round \Round\, prep.
   On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around;
   about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city;
   to wind a cable round a windlass.

         The serpent Error twines round human hearts. --Cowper.

   {Round about}, an emphatic form for round or about. ``Moses .
      . . set them [The elders] round about the tabernacle.''
      --Num. xi. 24.

   {To come round}, to gain the consent of, or circumvent, (a
      person) by flattery or deception. [Colloq.]



   {To come out with}, to give publicity to; to disclose.

   {To come over}.
      (a) To pass from one side or place to another.
          ``Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
          them.'' --Addison.
      (b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

   {To come over to}, to join.

   {To come round}.
      (a) To recur in regular course.
      (b) To recover. [Colloq.]
      (c) To change, as the wind.
      (d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
      (e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

   {To come short}, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. ``All
      have sinned and come short of the glory of God.'' --Rom.
      iii. 23.

   {To come to}.
      (a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
      (b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
          ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
      (c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
      (d) To arrive at; to reach.
      (e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
      (f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
          --Shak.

   {To come to blows}. See under {Blow}.

   {To come to grief}. See under {Grief}.

   {To come to a head}.
      (a) To suppurate, as a boil.
      (b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

   {To come to one's self}, to recover one's senses.

   {To come to pass}, to happen; to fall out.

   {To come to the scratch}.
      (a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
          made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
          beginning a contest; hence:
      (b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
          [Colloq.]