KJV Dictionary Definition: environ

environ

ENVI'RON, v.t. Eng. to veer.

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.

That soldier, that man of iron,

Whom ribs of horror all environ.

environed

ENVI'RONED, pp. Surrounded; encompassed; besieged; involved; invested.

environing

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

environs

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