Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   {Gentlemen of the round}.
       (a) Gentlemen soldiers of low rank who made the rounds.
           See 10
       (a), above.
       (b) Disbanded soldiers who lived by begging. [Obs.]

                 Worm-eaten gentlemen of the round, such as have
                 vowed to sit on the skirts of the city, let
                 your provost and his half dozen of halberdiers
                 do what they can.                --B. Jonson.

   {Round of beef}, the part of the thigh below the aitchbone,
      or between the rump and the leg. See Illust. of {beef}.

   {Round steak}, a beefsteak cut from the round.

   {Sculpture in the round}, sculpture giving the full form, as
      of man; statuary, distinguished from relief.