Definition of Abouts

1. about [prep]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abouts

about-turn
about-turns
about face
about faces
about ship
about shipped
about shipping
about ships
about sledge
about time
about to
about turn
aboute
aboutness
aboutnesses
abouts (current term)
above-board
above-cited
above-line
above-mentioned
above-named
above-stairs
above-the-fold
above-water
above all
above and beyond
above average
above board
above ground

Literary usage of Abouts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A First[-fifth] Reader by Jenny H. Stickney, Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood (1889)
"Nine little Gad-abouts, dressed in their best, — Bottle-green waistcoat, brownish striped vest; Keeping step together, left foot, then the right, ..."

2. Forms of Judgments and Orders in the High Court of Justice and Court of by Cecil Clare Marston Dale, W. Tindal King, W. O. Goldschmidt, Sir Henry Wilmot Seton, Great Britain Court of Appeal (1901)
"... abouts, is not a valid objection; And Declare that, notwithstanding the aforesaid objections, the said purchaser ought specifically to perform the said ..."

3. A Third Reader by Jenny H. Stickney (1894)
"Wine little Gad-abouts, dressed in their best, — Bottle-green waistcoat, brownish striped vest; Keeping step together, left foot, then the right, ..."

4. The Journal of Joachim Hane: Containing His Escapes and Sufferings During by Joachim Hane, Charles Harding Firth (1896)
"The alarum was so great that the troopers which quartered their abouts went the rounds on the high wayes till evening, and at night the countrymen kept ..."

5. The English Factories in India, 1622-1623: A Calendar of Documents in the by William Foster (1908)
"or theere abouts .... They have lost here by death in the tymes of raynes, which died ashore, about 25, most little chilldren.' Send a letter received from ..."

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