Dictionary entry

Round (7)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Round, v. i. 1. To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.

The queen your mother rounds apace. Shak.

So rounds he to a separate mind,

From whence clear memory may begin. Tennyson.

2. To go round, as a guard.

They... nightly rounding walk. Milton.

3. To go or turn round; to wheel about. Tennyson.

To round to(Naut.), to turn the head of a ship toward the wind.