1. round about - Adverb
2. round about - Phrase
In an opposite direction.
(emphatic) Round; around.
round about
At a point or time approximately equal to.
There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. Robert Louis Stevenson
Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover And near the sacred gate With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her. William Makepeace Thackeray
If we do not depart from God, and disunite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that work which he has for us to do. Oliver Cromwell
Falsehood never tires of going round about. Danish Proverb
Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about. German Proverb
Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about. (Strauss, 1994 p. 221) English Proverb