11. (Mus.)
Defn: A short vocal piece, resembling a catch in which three or four voices follow each other round in a species of canon in the unison.
12. The time during which prize fighters or boxers are in actual contest without an intermission, as prescribed by their rules; a bout.
13. A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
14. A vessel filled, as for drinking. [R.]
15. An assembly; a group; a circle; as, a round of politicians. Addison.
16. (Naut.)
Defn: See Roundtop.
17. Same as Round of beef, below. Gentlemen of the round. (a) Gentlemen soldiers of low rank who made the rounds. See 10 (a), above. (b) Disbanded soldiers who lived by begging. [Obs.] Worm-eaten gentlemen of the round, such as have vowed to sit on the skirts of the city, let your provost and his half dozen of halberdiers do what they can. B. Jonson. — Round of beef, the part of the thigh below the aitchbone, or between the rump and the leg. See Illust. of beef. — Round steak, a beefsteak cut from the round. — Sculpture in the round, sculpture giving the full form, as of man; statuary, distinguished from relief.
ROUND
Round, adv.