Surround

1. n. A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
2. v. t. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
3. v. t. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.
4. v. t. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world.
5. v. t. To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.