[-ING2.] That surrounds.
1. That is (or are) around; encompassing, circumjacent.
1634. Milton, Comus, 403. And let a single helpless maiden pass Uninjur’d in this wilde surrounding wast. Ibid. (1667), P. L., I. 346. ’Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding Fires.
1704. Pope, Windsor For., 262. The bow’ry mazes, and surrounding greens.
1781. Cowper, Hope, 305. Lord paramount of the surrounding plains.
1794. Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, i. The beauty of the surrounding scene.
1806. A. Hunter, Culina (ed. 3), 197. Serve up in a deep dish, with the surrounding sauce.
1828–43. Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), I. 138. They ravaged the surrounding country with merciless execution.
1845. Stocqueler, Handbk. Brit. India (1854), 3. Venice … raised herself … to an eminence that excited the jealousy … of surrounding nations.
1890. Science-Gossip, XXVI. 209/2. The ammonia is rapidly oxidised in the soil into nitric acid, which at once combines with the surrounding bases to form nitrates.
† 2. Moving round, circling. Obs. rare–1.
1657. S. Purchas, Pol. Flying-Ins., 16. They will expatiate and dance the Hay in circling motions, and surrounding vagaries.
