hereabout, adv.
(hɪərəˈbaʊt)
[f. here adv. 16 + about.]
† 1. About or concerning this (thing, etc.). Obs.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 46 Scheaweð ofte ine scrifte ower ȝeme⁓leaste her abuten. c 1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 376 Go now thy wey and speed thee heer aboute. 1583 Hollyband Campo di Fior 343 We may remember that, which this maister hath tolde us hereabout. 1644 Hunton Vind. Treat. Monarchy vi. 49 Reade what I have said here-about. |
2. About or near this place; somewhere in this neighbourhood.
| a 1300 K. Horn 343 Ȝef horn were her abute..Wiþ him ȝe wolden pleie. c 1400 Warres of Jewes in Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry x. (1840) II. 106 Prophecie, they sayde, Which man her aboute [bolled] the laste. 1592 Shakes. Rom. & Jul. v. iii. 43 Ile hide me here about. 1653 Walton Angler ii. 47 There is not a likely place for a Trout here⁓about. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 234, I think it must lie somewhere hereabout. 1875 Tennyson Q. Mary iii. v, There haunt some Papist ruffians hereabout. |
b. About this point of action, time, etc.
| 1675 S. Sewall Diary 31 July I. 11 Herabout I waked. |