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\Where"a*bout`\, Whereabouts \Where"a*bouts`\, adv.
1. About where; near what or which place; -- used
interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you
meet him?
Note: In this sense, whereabouts is the common form.
2. Concerning which; about which. ``The object whereabout
they are conversant.'' --Hooker.
\Where"a*bout`\, Whereabouts \Where"a*bouts`\, n.
The place where a person or thing is; as, they did not know
his whereabouts. --Shak.
A puzzling notice of thy whereabout. --Wordsworth.
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