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Environ [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To surround; to encompass; to encircle; as a plain environed with mountains.

2. To involve; to envelop; as, to environ with darkness, or with difficulties.

3. To besiege; as a city environed with troops.

4. To inclose; to invest.

5. That soldier, that man of iron,

6. Whom ribs of horror all environ

Environ [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

About; around.

Environ [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.

Environed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Surrounded; encompassed; besieged; involved; invested.

Environed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Environing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Surrounding; encircling; besieging; inclosing; involving; investing. The appropriation of different parts of the globe to some particular specles of stone environing it.

Environing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Environment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Act of environing; state of being environed.

2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.

Environs [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

plural The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood, on different sides; as the environs of a city or town.

Environs [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.