Obs. Also 5 vyroun, 5–6 viron (6 vyron); 5 vyrnyn. [ad. OF. vironner, f. viron: see prec. and cf. ENVIRON v.]
1. trans. To go round; to make the circuit of.
1382. Wyclif, Pref. Epist. St. Jerome, i. We han redde in olde stories, sum men to han vyrounde [L. lustrasse] prouynces.
2. To environ or encircle, to surround (with something).
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 510/2. Vyrnyn a-bowte, or closyn (K. closyn abowtyn), vallo, circumvallo. Ibid., Vyrnyn a-bowte, or gon a-bowte, ambio, circumdo.
c. 1440. Psalmi Penit. (1894), 10. Thu art my refute yn my woo, That hath vironed me aboute.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. ccccviii. 711. They vyroned rounde aboute the towne. Ibid. (c. 1530), Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814), 139. The curtaynes were of grene sendall vyroned wyth golde & asure.
1587. Turberv., Trag. T. (1837), 40. We may presume the service there was rare, Because the board was vironed round with states.
