Environing ppl. a.

[f. ENVIRON v. + -ING².] That environs, surrounds, envelops.

1641–1706.  Evelyn, Mem. (1819), I. 136. Full of sweet shrubbs in the invironing hedges.

1832.  G. Downes, Lett. Cont. Countries, I. 72. Blocks of granite, detached from the environing heights.

1860.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., V. VII. ii. § 4. 113. London … loses at least two out of three sunrises, owing to the environing smoke.