There"a*bout` (?), There"a*bouts` (?), adv. [The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly used.]
1.
Near that place.
2.
Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts.
Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts.
Shak.
Some three months since, or thereabout.
Suckling.
3.
Concerning that; about that. [R.]
What will ye dine? I will go thereabout.
Chaucer.
They were much perplexed thereabout.
Luke xxiv. 4.
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