Aground :: Aground (adv. & a.) On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.

Around :: Around (adv.) In a circle; circularly; on every side; round.

Around :: Around (adv.) In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town..

Around :: Around (adv.) Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took place..

Around :: Around (prep.) On all sides of; encircling; encompassing; so as to make the circuit of; about.

Around :: Around (prep.) From one part to another of; at random through; about; on another side of; as, to travel around the country; a house standing around the corner..

Background :: Background (n.) Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front..

Background :: Background (n.) The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.

Background :: Background (n.) Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings..

Background :: Background (n.) A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight..

Burying Ground :: Burying ground () Alt. of Burying plac.

Coroun :: Coroun (v. & n.) Crown.

Enround :: Enround (v. t.) To surround.

Foreground :: Foreground (n.) On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6..

Frounce :: Frounce (v. i.) To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair..

Frounce :: Frounce (v. i.) To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.

Frounce :: Frounce (n.) A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown..

Frounce :: Frounce (n.) An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill..

Frounced :: Frounced (imp. & p. p.) of Frounc.

Frounceless :: Frounceless (a.) Without frounces.

Frouncing :: Frouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frounc.

Ground :: Ground (imp. & p. p.) of Grin.

Ground :: Ground (n.) The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it..

Ground :: Ground (n.) A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth.

Ground :: Ground (n.) Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action; as, a hunting or fishing ground; a play ground..

Ground :: Ground (n.) Land; estate; possession; field; esp. (pl.), the gardens, lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate are well kept..

Ground :: Ground (n.) The basis on which anything rests; foundation. Hence: The foundation of knowledge, belief, or conviction; a premise, reason, or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as, the ground of my hope..

Ground :: Ground (n.) That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another; as, crimson Bowers on a white ground..

Ground :: Ground (n.) In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief..

Ground :: Ground (n.) In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied; as, Brussels ground. See Brussels lace, under Brussels..

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