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n. same as baranduki; the terrestrial Siberian squirrel.
Syn. -- baranduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Brand. ] A sword. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. frons, frondis, a leafy branch, foliage. ] (Bot.) The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. frondatio, from frons. See Frond. ] The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (F. Hist.) A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with fronds. “Fronded palms.” Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. frondens, p. pr. of frondere to put forth leaves. See Frond. ] Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. frondescere, inchoative fr. frondere. See Frondent. ] To unfold leaves, as plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves. (b) The act of bursting into leaf. Milne. Martyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (F. Hist.) A member of the Fronde. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. frondifer frons a leafy branch + ferre to bear: cf. F. frondifere. ] Producing fronds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. frondosus leafy. ] (Bot.) (a) Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves. (b) Leafy. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Frondose. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. Girondiste. ] A member of the moderate republican party formed in the French legislative assembly in 1791. The Girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of La Gironde. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Girondists. [ Written also Girondin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Grind. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) A South American wild cat (Felis jaguarondi), having a long, slim body and very short legs. Its color is grayish brown, varied with a blackish hue. It is arboreal in its habits and feeds mostly on birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Anc. Armor.) A circular shield carried by foot soldiers. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Print.) A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Roundel. ] [ Written also rondo. ] 1. A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the 17th century the approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses with a refrain. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) See Rondo, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Rondeau, Roundel. ] 1. (Fort.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ F. ] (a) Same as Rondeau. (b) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth. E. W. Gosse. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. So named after William Rondelet, a French naturalist. ] (Bot.) A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Rondel. ] 1. A rondeau. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A round mass, plate, or disk; especially (Metal.), the crust or scale which forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. rondò, fr. F. rondeau. See Rondeau. ] 1. (Mus.) A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. “The Rondo-form was the earliest and most frequent definite mold for musical construction.” Grove. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Poetry) See Rondeau, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. rondeur roundness. ] 1. A round; a circle. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Roundness; plumpness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

High-kirtled for the chase, and what was shown
Of maiden rondure, like the rose half-blown. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]