roundedadj.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 111^v (MED) And..see he þe vryne..Afterward consider he his face..Of þe erez, if þai be rounded & shorte.

a1456 (a1426) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 677 Þoughe his bely were rounded lyche an ooke She wolde not fayle to gyf þe first[e] strooke.

1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. G Hyr sweete and eke hyr sugred lippes, softe, rounded lyke the berrie, Right well to me resemble doe the crimson bloomed cherrie.

1587 M. Grove Most Famous Hist. Pelops & Hippodamia sig. B.iiii^v The Gods that rule the skye, And turne the rounded globe.

1622 P. Hannay Nightingale 96 A rounded Moon Which from a cloud comes suddenly to sight.

1678 A. van Leeuwenhoeck in R. Hooke Lect. & Coll. 86 Irregular particles for the most part rounded.

1717 J. Ozell in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses x. 340 To pitch the rounded Quoit, their wonted Play.

1781 A. Hamilton Treat. Midwifery 101 The fundus..may be felt..like a hard rounded ball, between the belly and back-bone.

1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. Gloss. 83 Volcanos throw out sometimes detached masses of melted lava, which, as they fall, assume rounded forms (like bomb-shells).

1874 S. F. Baird et al. Hist. N. Amer. Birds II. 504 The white..on the outer webs of the feathers forms rounded spots rather than bands.

1955 S. V. Rainey & H. W. Hogben Elements Industr. Radiogr. vii. 29 Defects appear radiographically as dark shadows of rounded outline.

1999 A. Ryder Artist's Compl. Guide Figure Drawing (2000) vii. 129/2 Tonal progressions create an illusion of rounded, curving surfaces.

1712 T. Parnell in Spectator No. 460. ⁋6 The Top of the Building being rounded, bore so far the Resemblance of a Bubble.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc vii. 349 Where the buckler was beneath Rounded, the falchion struck.

1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 19 These tents were circular in form, and rounded towards the top.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) xix. 337 The rounded surface of the earth.

1958 W. E. Swinton Fossil Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 2) viii. 48 Tortoises, often of large size, and generally typified by a rounded or vaulted carapace, are known from the early Tertiary onwards.

1995 L. Hogan Solar Storms (1997) 69 It was a thick-walled house with a rounded ceiling, domelike, made of lodgepole pines.

1795 Med. Commentaries for 1794 Decade 2nd 10 vii. 83 The gentle slopes of the rounded hills.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 30 The mountains..are rounded in shape.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxviii. 229 At another time, you travel over rounded dunes of old seasoned hummock.

1916 Emu 16 157 Some of the more rounded hills were covered in porcupine-bush.

1979 Backpacker Dec. 28/1 This is a land of rolling, tree-topped hills and wide, rounded valleys.

2009 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 18 Jan. (Herald-Times ed.) d11/3 A region of high rounded hills and picturesque valleys.

1807 A. M. Porter Hungarian Brothers III. vii. 223 As to the figure, on which I know you prided yourself,—your neck, your arms, your finely-rounded shape,—it's all vanished.

1896 Cosmopolis May 306 Anthony was a comfortably rounded man, respectably angular in feature, profoundly commonplace.

1922 J. M. Hudson Marne xxiv. 321 On the left is the graceful, rounded form of a beautiful woman, a naiad—the Marne.

1977 Iowa Rev. 8 110 She sees that one of the rounded women is already seated at the bar.

1993 F. Collymore RSVP to Mrs Bush-Hall 128 She was dressed in a white satin gown that displayed her rounded figure perhaps a little too bumpily, but Lucas, arriving at the very last moment, had approved.

1826 Franklin Jrnl. 1 279 As coals are sold by what is termed ‘rounded measure’, or partially heaped, it became necessary to ascertain the cubical content of a body of coal thus measured.

1867 Illustr. Ann. Reg. Rural Affairs 331 A rounded teaspoonful is a full dose.

1910 Table Talk June 335/1 A level cupful of granulated sugar weighs seven ounces, a rounded cupful is eight ounces.

1965 Observer 28 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 34/1 One could be pedantic and write back: I mean ‘a rounded tablespoon’ unless you want a thinner soup, sauce or stew, in which case I mean ‘a level tablespoon’.

2002 S. K. Nissenberg Everything Kids' Cookbk. i. 8/2 Unless the recipe says to use a ‘rounded’ measure, make sure to fill the cup or spoon evenly to the top.

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ix. 969 Lik a bisshop Iroundid & Ishorn.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 263 (MED) The men of that londe be rowndede in the maner of a cercle [a1387 St. John's Cambr. beeþ i-schore aboute; L. circulariter tonduntur].

1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 178/1 in Chron. I For he was rounded or shauen after the maner of the East Church.

1578 T. Cooper Thesaurus (new ed.) Tonsus homo, a man rounded, polled or notted.

1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 10 Long bushie haire was the signale mark of Maiestie,..when as all subiects were rounded, and the Kings only long haired.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 199 He wantis nocht bot a rowndit heid.

1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. F.7 What though one with face austere, with naked feete, and bayre, Should Cato counterfeate, and in his gallowes rounded hayre, Soould he be like to Catos self in life and vertue then?

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 969 Many round pearls set at just distances, do make the outward'st rounded skirt of all the wings to be more graceful.

1682 Edinb. City Arch. (Moses Bundle 254) No. 7741 Rounded peices [sc. coins].

1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. 173 The Cup of these Flowers is a Basin of one single piece, divided into five rounded parts.

1768 B. Cuthbertson Syst. Compl. Managem. Battalion of Infantry xiii. 117 The Buckles..should have rounded corners, to prevent their hurting the Men's fingers.

1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 629 Those angular threads which are rounded at the top and bottom, and which are thence called rounded or round threads.

1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 72 The teeth on the under side of the wheel..should be rounded.

1920 Pop. Mech. Mag. Feb. 313/1 Two bars of steel..are rounded off along one edge and placed side by side in a vise so that the two rounded edges face each other.

1995 C. Podolak Easy Guide Sewing Jackets (1996) 39/1 Jackets with curved front edges demand rounded pockets.

1742 Acta Germanica I. 156 It is a piece of rounded wood which is held between the incisors.

1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 328/2 The village houses are all log-houses (mostly of rounded logs).

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 225 The ‘cap’..always of rounded and not of split timber like the lower bars.

1947 I. E. S. Edwards Pyramids of Egypt (1955) ii. 59 A flat stone roof, carved on the underside to imitate rounded logs of wood.

1998 B. Santich McLaren Vale Sea & Vines iv. 120 In one corner rounded timber shingles overlap like the petals of a flower.

1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric II. xxxiii. 219 A modulation of voice more rounded, and bordering more upon music, than conversation admits.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 11 The sound was..sometimes broken into rounded explosions.

1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xiii. 259 The voice was fuller and more rounded, because the man knew he was speaking of his best work.

1959 R. Winston & C. Winston tr. E. Schenk Mozart & his Times iii. 200 He also has a very fine rounded tone.

2008 Guardian 7 Mar. (Film & Music section) 14/2 The Manjaco and Balanta, with their rounded, lilting rhythms.

1867 A. M. Bell Visible Speech: Sci. Universal Alphabetics 76 The ‘rounded’ vowels are called ‘High-Back Round’.., ‘High-Back Wide Round’ [etc.].

1890 H. Sweet Primer of Phonetics 24 Pairs of rounded and unrounded vowels are often formed with slightly divergent tongue-positions.

1953 J. B. Carroll Study of Lang. ii. 34 These distinctive features [of the phoneme] consist of binary, two-valued oppositions or contrasts, such as voiced/unvoiced, high/low, rounded/unrounded.

1968 N. Chomsky & M. Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 309 Rounded sounds are produced with a narrowing of the lip orifice.

1993 IRAL 31 40 A non-labial segment in the onset is labialized when followed by a rounded vowel in the nucleus.