Environ
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Environ - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
ENVI'RON, v.t. [Eng. to veer.]
1. To surround; to encompass; to encircle; as a plain environed with mountains.
2. To involve; to envelop; as, to environ with darkness, or with difficulties.
3. To besiege; as a city environed with troops.
4. To inclose; to invest.
That soldier, that man of iron,
Whom ribs of horror all environ.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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