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Definition:To whisper. [obs.]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Is she so fair? art thou so amorous?
What rown'st thou with our maid? benedicite,
Sir olde lechour, let thy japes be.
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue (1400)
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My lord, do as you please,
But if you hold it fit, after the play,
Let his queen mother all alone entreat him
To show his grief, let her be round with him,
And I’ll be plac’d, so please you, in the ear
Of all their conference.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Polonius says to the king in Hamlet — "Let his queen—mother all alone entreat him to show his grief— left her be rowned with him;" not blunt and loud, but in private converse. {See Round , To.)
E. Cobam Brewer. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1894)
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You should have taught me that lesson, which I will round you in the ears withal: Cease, my Son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
John Bunyan. Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)
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