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Roar
ROAR, verb intransitive
1. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound; to bellow, as a beast; as a roaring bull; a roaring lion.
2. To cry aloud, as in distress.
The suff'ring chief roar'd out for anguish.
3. To cry aloud; to bawl; as a child.
4. To cause a loud continued sound. We say, the sea or the wind roars; a company roar in acclamation.
5. To make a loud noise.
The brazen throat of war had ceas'd to roar
ROAR, noun
1. A full loud sound of some continuance; the cry of a beast; as the roar of a lion or bull.
2. The loud cry of a child or person in distress.
3. Clamor; outcry of joy or mirth; as a roar of laughter. he set the company in a roar
4. The loud continued sound of the sea in a storm, or the howling of a tempest.
5. Any loud sound of some continuance; as the roar of cannon.
Roarer
ROARER, noun One that roars, man or beast.
Roaring
ROARING, participle present tense Crying like a bull or lion; uttering a deep loud sound.
ROARING, noun The cry of a lion or other beast; outcry of distress, ; loud continued sound of the billows of the sea or of a tempest. .
Roary
ROARY, adjective Dewy; more properly rory.
Roast
ROAST, verb transitive [If the verb is from the noun, the sense is to dress or cook on a gridiron or grate, and rist, rost, coincide in elements with Latin rastellum, a rake. If the verb is the root, the sense probably is to contract or crisp, or to throw or agitate, hence to make rough.]
1. To cook, dress or prepare meat for the table by exposing it to heat, as on a spit. In a bake-pan, in an oven or the like. We now say, to roast meat on a spit, in a pan, or in a tin oven, etc.; to bake meat in an oven; to broil meat on a gridiron.
2. To prepare for food by exposure to heat; as, to roast apples or potatoes; to roast eggs.
3. To heat to excess; to heat violently.
ROASTed in wrath and fire.
4. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee.
5. In metallurgy, to dissipate the volatile parts of ore by heat.
6. In common discourse, to jeer; to banter severely.
ROAST, noun That which is roasted.
ROAST, adjective [for roasted.] Roasted; as roast beef.
ROAST, noun In the phrase, to rule the roast this word is a corrupt pronunciation.
Roasted
ROASTED, participle passive Dressed by exposure to heat on a spit.
Roaster
ROASTER, noun
1. One that roasts meat; also, a gridiron.
2. A pig for roasting.
Roasting
ROASTING, participle present tense
1. Preparing for the table by exposure to heat on a spit; drying and parching.
2. Bantering with severity.
ROASTING, noun A severe teasing or bantering.
Rob
ROB, noun
The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, mixed with honey or sugar to the consistence of a conserve.
ROB, verb transitive
1. In law, to take from the person of another feloniously, forcibly and by putting him in fear; as, to rob a passenger on the road.
2. To seize and carry from any thing by violence and with felonious intent; as, to rob a coach; to rob the mail.
3. To plunder; to strip unlawfully; as, to rob an orchard; to rob a man of his just praise.
4. To take away by oppression or by violence.
ROB not the poor because he is poor. .
5. To take from; to deprive. A large tree robs smaller plants near it of their nourishment.
6. In a loose sense, to steal; to take privately without permission of the owner.
7. To withhold what is due. .
Roballo
ROBAL'LO, noun A fish found in Mexico, which affords a most delicate food.
Robbe
ROB'BE, noun The sea dog or seal.
Robbed
ROB'BED, participle passive Deprived feloniously and by violence; plundered; seized and carried away by violence.
Robber
ROB'BER, noun
1. In law, one that takes goods or money from the person of another by force or menaces, and with a felonious intent.
2. In a looser sense, one who takes that to which he has no right; one who steals, plunders or strips by violence and wrong.
Robbery
ROB'BERY, noun
1. In law, the forcible and felonious taking from the person of another any money or goods, putting him in fear, that is, by violence or by menaces of death or personal injury. robbery differs from theft, as it is a violent felonious taking from the person or presence of another; whereas theft is a felonious taking of goods privately from the person, dwelling, etc. of another. These words should not be confounded.
2. A plundering; a pillaging; a taking away by violence, wrong or oppression.
Robbing
ROB'BING, participle present tense Feloniously taking from the person of another; putting him in fear; stripping; plundering; taking from another unlawfully or by wrong or oppression.
Robbins
ROB'BINS,
ROBE, noun
1. A kind of gown or long loose garment worn over other dress, particularly by persons in elevated stations. The robe is properly a dress of state or dignity, as of princes, judges, priests, etc. See . . .
2. A splendid female gown or garment. .
3. An elegant dress; splendid attire.
4. In Scripture, the vesture of purity or righteousness, and of happiness. . .
ROBE, verb transitive
1. To put on a robe; or to dress with magnificence; to array.
2. To dress; to invest, as with beauty or elegance; as fields robed with green.
Such was his power over the expression of his countenance, that he could in an instant shake off the sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest smiles of spring.
Robe
ROBE, n. 1. A kind of gown or long loose garment worn over other dress, particularly by persons in elevated stations. The robe is properly a dress of state or dignity, as of princes, judges, priests, &c. See Ex. 29:55. . .2. A splendid female gown or garment. . An elegant dress; splendid attire.4. In Scripture, the vesture of purity or righteousness, and of happiness. ROBE, v.t. 1. To put on a robe; or to dress with magnificence; to array.2. To dress; to invest, as with beauty or elegance; as fields robed with green.Such was his power over the expression of his countenance, that he could in an instant shake off the sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest smiles of spring.
Robed
RO'BED, participle passive Dressed with a robe; arrayed with elegance.
Robersman
ROB'ERSMAN,
ROB'ERT,
HERB-ROBERT, noun A plant of the genus Geranium; stork's bill.
Robert
ROB'ERT,
Robertine
ROB'ERTINE, noun One of an order of monks, so called from Robert Flower, the founder, adjective D. 1187.
Robertsman
ROB'ERTSMAN, noun In the old statutes of England, a bold stout robber or night thief, said to be so called from Robinhood, a famous robber.
Robin
ROB'IN, noun [Latin rubecula, from rubeo, to be red.]
1. A bird of the genus Motacilla, called also redbreast. This is the English application of the word.
2. In the United States, a bird with a red breast, a species of Turdus.
Robin-Goodfellow
ROBIN-GOODFELLOW, noun An old domestic goblin.
Roborant
ROB'ORANT, adjective [Latin roborans, roboro.] Strengthening.
ROB'ORANT, noun A medicine that strengthens; but corroborant is generally used.
Roboration
ROBORA'TION, noun [from Latin roboro, from robur, strength.]
A strengthening. [Little used.]
Roboreous
ROBO'REOUS, adjective [Latin roborcus, from robur, strength, and an oak.]
Made of oak.
Robust
ROBUST', adjective [Latin robustus, from robur, strength.]
1. Strong; lusty; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; forceful; as a robust body; robust youth. It implies full flesh and sound health.
2. Sound; vigorous; as robust health.
3. Violent; rough; rude.
Romp loving miss is haul'd about in gallantry robust
4. Requiring strength; as robust employment.
[Note. This is one of the words in which we observe a strong tendency in practice to accentuate the first syllable, as in access; and there are many situations of the word in which this is the preferable pronunciation. Robustious is extremely vulgar, and in the United States nearly obsolete.]
Robustness
ROBUST'NESS, noun Strength; vigor, or the condition of the body when it has full firm flesh and sound health.
Rocambole
ROC'AMBOLE,
ROCHE-ALUM, noun
Rock-alum, a purer kind of alum.
Rochelle salt, tartrate of potash and soda.
Rochet
ROCH'ET, noun
A surplice; the white upper garment of a priest worn while officiating.
ROCH'ET, noun A fish, the roach, which see.
Rock
ROCK, noun [Gr., Latin rupes, from the root of rumpo, to break or burst. If this is not the origin of rock I know not to what root to assign it.]
1. A large mass of stony matter, usually compounded of two or more simple minerals, either bedded in the earth or resting on its surface. Sometimes rocks compose the principal part of huge mountains; sometimes hugh rocks lie on the surface of the earth, in detached blocks or masses. Under this term, mineralogists class all mineral substances, coal, gypsum, salt, etc.
2. In Scripture, figuratively, defense; means of safety; protection; strength; asylum.
The Lord is my rock .
3. Firmness; a firm or immovable foundation. .
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4. A species of vulture or condor.
5. A fabulous bird in the Eastern tales.
ROCK, noun
A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
ROCK, verb transitive
1. To move backward and forward, as a body resting on a foundation; as, to rock a cradle; to rock a chair; to rock a mountain. It differs from shake, as denoting a slower and more uniform motion, or larger movements. It differs from swing, which expresses a vibratory motion of something suspended.
A rising earthquake rock'd the ground.
2. To move backwards and forwards in a cradle, chair, etc.; as, to rock a child to sleep.
3. To lull to quiet.
Sleep rock thy brain. [Unusual.]
ROCK, verb intransitive To be moved backwards and forwards; to reel.
The rocking town supplants their footsteps.
Rock-Alum
ROCK'-ALUM, noun The purest kind of alum. [See Roche-alum.
ROCK'-BASON, noun A cavity or artificial bason cut in a rock for the purpose, as is supposed, of collecting the dew or rain for ablutions and purifications prescribed by the druidical religion.
Rock-Butter
ROCK-BUTTER, noun A subsulphite of alumin, oozing from aluminous rocks.
Rock-Crystal
ROCK-CRYS'TAL, noun The most perfect variety of silicious earth or quartz; limpid quartz. When purest it is white or colorless, but it is found of a grayish or yellowish white, pale yellow or citron. Its most usual form is that of hexagonal prisms, surmounted by hexagonal pyramids.
ROCK'-DOE, noun A species of deer.
Rock-Rose
ROCK'-ROSE, noun A plant of the genus Cistus.
Rock-Ruby
ROCK-RUBY, noun A name sometimes given to the garnet, when it is of a strong, but not a deep red, and has a cast of blue.
Rock-Salt
ROCK'-SALT, noun Fossil or mineral salt; salt dug from the earth; muriate of soda. But in America, this name is sometimes given to salt that comes in large crystals from the West Indies, which salt is formed by evaporation from sea water, in large basons or cavities, on the isles. Hexahedral rock-salt occurs foliated and fibrous.
ROCK'-WOOD, noun Ligniform asbestus.
ROCK'-WORK, noun
1. Stones fixed in mortar in imitation of the asperities of rocks, forming a wall.
2. A natural wall of rock.
Rocked
ROCK'ED, participle passive [from rock, the verb.] Moved one way and the other.
Rocker
ROCK'ER, noun One who rocks the cradle; also, the curving piece of wood on which a cradle or chair rocks.
Rocket
ROCK'ET, noun
An artificial fire-work, consisting of a cylindrical case of paper, filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal and sulphur. This being tied to a stick and fired, ascends into the air and bursts.
ROCK'ET, noun [Latin eruca.] A plant of the genus Brassica. There is also the bastard rocket of the genus Reseda; the corn rocket and the sea rocket of the genus Bunias; the marsh rocket the water rocket and the winter rocket of the genus Sisymbrium; and the dame's violet rocket of the genus Hesperis.
ROCK'-FISH, noun A species of Gobius.
Rockiness
ROCK'INESS, noun [from rocky.] State of abounding with rocks.
Rocking
ROCK'ING, participle present tense Moving backwards and forwards.
Rockless
ROCK'LESS, adjective Being without rocks.
ROCK'-OIL, noun Another name for petrol or petroleum.
ROCK'-PIGEON, noun A pigeon that builds her nest on a rock.
Rocky
ROCK'Y, adjective [from rock.]
1. Full of rocks; as a rocky mountain; rocky shore.
2. Resembling a rock; as the rocky orb of a shield.
3. Very hard; stony; obdurate; insusceptible of impression; as a rocky bosom.
Rod
ROD, noun [Latin radius, ray, radix, root.]
1. The shoot or long twig of any woody plant; a branch, or the stem of a shrub; as a rod of hazle, of birch, of oak or hickory. Hence,
2. An instrument of punishment or correction; chastisement.
I will chasten him with the rod of men. . .
3. Discipline; ecclesiastical censures. .
4. A king of scepter.
The rod and bird of peace.
5. A pole for angling; something long and slender.
6. An instrument for measuring; but more generally, a measure of length containing five yards, or sixteen feet and a half; a pole; a perch. In many parts of the United States, rod is universally used for pole or perch.
7. In Scripture, a staff or wand. .
8. Support.
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. .
9. A shepherd's crook. .
10. An instrument for threshing. .
11. Power; authority. .
12. A tribe or race.
ROD of iron, the mighty power of Christ. .
Rode
RODE, preterit tense of ride; also, a cross. [See Rood.]
Rodomont
ROD'OMONT, noun
A vain boaster.
ROD'OMONT, adjective Bragging; vainly boasting.
Rodomontade
RODOMONTA'DE, noun [See Rodomont.]
Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.
I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible.
RODOMONTA'DE, verb intransitive To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.
Rodomontadist
RODOMONT'ADIST,
RODOMONTA'DOR, noun A blustering boaster; one that brags or vaunts.
Rodomontador
RODOMONTA'DOR, n. A blustering boaster; one that brags or vaunts.
Roe
ROE,
RO'E-STONE, noun Called also oolite, which see.
Roebuck
ROEBUCK, noun
1. A species of deer, the Cervus capreolus, with erect cylindrical branched horns, forked at the summit. This is one of the smallest of the cervine genus, but of elegant shape and remarkably nimble. It prefers a mountainous country, and herds in families.
2. Roe, the female of the hart.
ROE, noun
The seed or spawn of fishes. The roe of the male is call soft roe or milt; that of the female, hard roe or spawn.
Rogation
ROGA'TION, noun [Latin rogatio; rogo, to ask.]
1. Litany; supplication.
He perfecteth the rogations or litanies before in use.
2. In Roman jurisprudence, the demand by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people.
Rogation-Week
ROGA'TION-WEEK, noun The second week before Whitsunday, thus called from the three fasts observed therein; viz, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, called rogation-days, because of the extraordinary prayers then made for the fruits of the earth, or as a preparation for the devotion of the Holy Thursday.
Rogue
ROGUE, noun rog. [Gr., Eng. rogue by transposition of letters. The word arga, in the laws of the Longobards, denotes a cuckold.]
1. In law, a vagrant; a sturdy beggar; a vagabond. Persons of this character were, by the ancient laws of England, to be punished by whipping and having the ear bored with a hot iron.
2. A knave; a dishonest person; applied now, I believe, exclusively to males. This word comprehends thieves and robbers, but is generally applied to such as cheat and defraud in mutual dealings, or to counterfeiters.
The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise.
3. A name of slight tenderness and endearment.
Alas, poor rogue I think indeed she loves.
4. A wag.
ROGUE, verb intransitive rog.
1. To wander; to play the vagabond. [Little used.]
2. To play knavish tricks. [Little used.]
Roguery
ROGUERY, noun
1. The life of a vagrant. [Not little used.]
2. Knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices.
Tis no scandal grown, for debt and roguery to quit the town.
3. Waggery; arch tricks; mischievousness.
Rogueship
ROGUESHIP, noun The qualities or personage of a rogue.
Roguish
ROGUISH, adjective
1. Vagrant; vagabond. [Nearly obsolete.]
2. Knavish; fraudulent; dishonest. [This is the present sense of the word.]
3. Waggish; wanton; slightly mischievous.
Roguishly
ROGUISHLY, adverb Like a rogue; knavishly; wantonly.
Roguishness
ROGUISHNESS, noun
1. The qualities of a rogue; knavery; mischievousness.
2. Archness; sly cunning; as the roguishness of a look.
Roguy
ROGUY, adjective Knavish; wanton. [Not in use.]
Roil
ROIL, verb transitive
1. To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment; as, to roil wine, cider or other liquor in casks or bottles.
2. To excite some degree of anger; to disturb the passion of resentment. [These senses are in common use in New England, and locally in England.]
3. To perplex. [Local in England.]
Roiled
ROIL'ED, participle passive Rendered turbid or foul by disturbing the lees or sediment; angered slightly; disturbed in mind by an offense.
Roiling
ROIL'ING, participle present tense Rendering turbid; or exciting the passion of anger.
[Note. This word is as legitimate as any in the language.]
Roint
ROINT, [See Aroynt.]
Roist
ROIST,
ROIST'ER, verb intransitive
To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting or turbulent. [Not in use.]
Roister
ROIST'ER, v.i. To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting or turbulent. [Not in use.] ROIST'ER,
Roisterer
ROIST'ERER, noun A bold, blustering, turbulent fellow. [Not in use.]
Rokambole
ROK'AMBOLE, noun A sort of wild garlic, the Allisum scorodoprasum, growing naturally in Denmark and Sweden. It has a heart-shaped root at the side of the stalk.
Roky
RO'KY, adjective [See Reek.] Misty; foggy; cloudy. [Not in use.]
Roll
ROLL, verb transitive [It is usual to consider this word as formed by contraction from the Latin rotula, a little wheel, from rota.]
1. To move by turning on the surface, or with a circular motion in which all parts of the surface are successively applied to a plane; as, to roll a barrel or puncheon; to roll a stone or ball. Sisyphus was condemned to roll a stone to the top of a hill, which, when he had done so, rolled down again, and thus his punishment was eternal.
2. To revolve; to turn on its axis; as, to roll a wheel or a planet.
3. To move in a circular direction.
To dress, to troll the tongue and roll the eye.
4. To wrap round on itself; to form into a circular or cylindrical body; as, to roll a piece of cloth; to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll tobacco.
5. To enwrap; to bind or involve in a bandage or the like.
6. To form by rolling into round masses.
7. To drive or impel any body with a circular motion, or to drive forward with violence or in a stream. The ocean rolls its billows to the shore. A river rolls its water to the ocean.
8. To spread with a roller or rolling pin; as, to roll paste.
9. To produce a periodical revolution.
Heav'n shone and roll'd her motions.
10. To press or level with a roller; as, to roll a field.
To roll one's self, to wallow. .
ROLL, verb intransitive
1. To move by turning on the surface, or with the successive application of all parts of the surface to a plane; as, a ball or a wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.
2. To move, turn or run on an axis; as a wheel. [In this sense, revolve is more generally used.
3. To run on wheels.
And to the rolling chair is bound.
4. To revolve; to perform a periodical revolution; as the rolling year. Ages roll away.
5. To turn; to move circularly.
And his red eyeballs roll with living fire.
6. To float in rough water; to be tossed about.
Twice ten tempestuous nights I roll'd -
7. To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swells and depressions. Waves roll on waves.
8. To fluctuate; to move tumultuously.
What diff'rent sorrows did within thee roll
9. To be moved with violence; to be hurled.
Down they fell by thousands, angel on archangel roll'd.
10. To be formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls well.
11. To spread under a roller or rolling pin. The paste rolls well.
12. To wallow; to tumble; as, a horse rolls.
13. To rock or move from side; as, a ship rolls in a calm.
14. To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
ROLL, noun
1. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as the roll of a ball.
2. The thing rolling.
3. A mass made round; something like a ball or cylinder; as a roll of fat; a roll of wool.
4. A roller; a cylinder of wood, iron or stone; as a roll to break clods.
5. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as a roll of woolen or satin; a roll of lace.
6. A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
7. An official writing; a list; a register; a catalogue; as a muster-roll; a court roll
8. The beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
9. Rolls of court, of parliament, or of any public body, are the parchments on which are engrossed, by the proper officer, the acts and proceedings of that body, and which being kept in rolls, constitute the records of such public body.
10. In antiquity, a volume; a book consisting of leaf, bark, paper, skin or other material on which the ancients wrote, and which being kept rolled or folded, was called in Latin volume, from volvo, to roll Hence.
11. A chronicle; history; annals.
Nor names more noble graced the rolls of fame.
12. Part; office; that is, round of duty, like turn. obsolete
Rolled
ROLLED, participle passive Moved by turning; formed into a round or cylindrical body; leveled with a roller, as land.
Roller
ROLLER, noun
1. That which rolls; that which turns on its own axis; particularly, a cylinder of wood, stone or metal, used in husbandry and the arts. Rollers are of various kinds and used for various purposes.
2. A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.
3. A bird of the magpie kind, about the size of a jay.
A bird of the genus Coracias, found in Europe; called also the German parrot.
Rolling
ROLLING, participle present tense Turning over; revolving; forming into a cylinder or round mass; leveling, as land.
ROLLING, noun The motion of a ship from side to side.
Rolling-Pin
ROLLING-PIN, noun A round piece of wood, tapering at each end, with which paste is molded and reduced to a proper thickness.
Rolling-Press
ROLLING-PRESS, noun An engine consisting of two cylinders, by which cloth is calendared, waved and tabbied; also an engine for taking impressions from copper plates; also, a like engine for drawing plates of metal, etc.
Rolly-Pooly
ROLLY-POOLY, noun [said to be roll and pool, or roll, ball and pool.]
A game in which a ball, rolling into a certain place, wins.
Romage
ROMAGE, noun Bustle; tumultuous search. [See Rummage.]
Romal
ROMAL, noun romaul'. A species of silk handkerchief.
Roman
RO'MAN, adjective [Latin Romanus, from Roma, the principal city of the Romans in Italy. Rome is the oriental name Ramah, elevated, that is, a hill; for fortresses and towns were often placed on hills for security; Heb. to be high, to raise.]
1. Pertaining to Rome, or to the roman people.
2. Romish; popish; professing the religion of the pope.
Roman catholic, as an adjective, denoting the religion professed by the people of Rome and of Italy, at the head of which is the pope or bishop of Rome; as a noun, one who adheres to the papal religion.
RO'MAN, noun
1. A native of rome.
2. A citizen of Rome; one enjoying the privileges of a roman citizen.
3. One of the christian church at Rome to which Paul addressed an epistle, consisting of converts from Judaism or paganism.
Romance
ROMANCE, noun romans', ro'mans.
1. A fabulous relation or story of adventures and incidents, designed for the entertainment of readers; a tale of extraordinary adventures, fictitious and often extravagant, usually a tale of love or war, subjects interesting the sensibilities of the heart, or the passions of wonder and curiosity. romance differs from the novel, as it treats of great actions and extraordinary adventures; that is, according to the Welch signification, it vaults or soars beyond the limits of fact and real life, and often of probability.
The first romances were a monstrous assemblage of histories, in which truth and fiction were blended without probability; a composition of amorous adventures and the extravagant ideas of chivalry.
2. A fiction.
ROMANCE, verb intransitive romans', ro'mans. To forge and tell fictitious stories; to deal in extravagant stories.
Romancer
ROMAN'CER,
RO'MANCER, noun
1. One who invents fictitious stories.
2. A writer of romance.
Romancing
ROMAN'CING,
RO'MANCING, participle present tense Inventing and telling fictitious tales; building castles in the air.
Romancy
ROMAN'CY, adjective Romantic. [Not proper.]
Romanism
RO'MANISM, noun The tenets of the church of Rome.
Romanist
RO'MANIST, noun An adherent to the papal religion; a Roman catholic.
Romanize
RO'MANIZE, verb transitive
1. To latinize; to fill with Latin words or modes of speech.
2. To convert to the Roman catholic religion, or to papistical opinions.
RO'MANIZE, verb intransitive To conform to Romish opinions, customs or modes of speech.
Romanized
RO'MANIZED, participle passive Latinized.
Romansh
ROMANSH', noun The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin.
Romantic
ROMAN'TIC, adjective
1. Pertaining to romance, or resembling it; wild; fanciful; extravagant; as a romantic taste; romantic notions; romantic expectations; romantic zeal.
2. Improbably or chimerical; fictitious; as a romantic tale.
3. Fanciful; wild; full of wild or fantastic scenery; as a romantic prospect or landscape; a romantic situation.
Romantically
ROMAN'TICALLY, adverb Wildly; extravagantly.
Romanticness
ROMAN'TICNESS, noun
1. Wildness; extravagance; fancifulness.
2. Wildness of scenery.
Romanzovite
ROMAN'ZOVITE, noun A recently discovered mineral of the garnet kind, of a brown or brownish yellow color; named from count Romanzoff.
Romepenny
ROMEPENNY,
ROMESCOT, noun A tax of a penny on a house, formerly paid by the people of England to the church of Rome.
Romish
RO'MISH, adjective [from Rome.] Belonging or relating to Rome, or to the religion professed by the people of Rome and of the western empire, of which Rome was the metropolis; catholic; popish; as the romish church; the romish religion, ritual or ceremonies.
Romist
RO'MIST, noun A papist.
Romp
ROMP, noun [a different spelling of ramp. See Ramp and Romance.]
1. A rude girl who indulges in boisterous play.
2. Rude play or frolic.
ROMP loving miss is haul'd about in gallantry robust.
ROMP, verb intransitive To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.
Rompee
ROMPEE', noun [Latin rumpo, to break.] In heraldry, an ordinary that is broken, or a chevron, a bend or the like, whose upper points are cut off.
Romping
ROMP'ING, participle present tense Playing rudely; as a noun, rude boisterous play.
Rompish
ROMP'ISH, adjective Given to rude play; inclined to romp.
Rompishness
ROMP'ISHNESS, noun Disposition to rude boisterous play; or the practice of romping.
Rompu
ROM'PU,
RONDEAU, 'DO, noun
1. A kind of poetry, commonly consisting of thirteen verses, of which eight have one rhyme, and five another. It is divided into three couplets, and at the end of the second and third, the beginning of the rondeau is repeated in an equivocal sense, if possible.
2. In music, the rondo, vocal or instrumental, generally consists of three strains, the first of which closes in the original key, while each of the others is so constructed in modulation as to reconduct the ear in an easy and natural manner to the first strain.
3. A kind of jig or lively tune that ends with the first strain repeated.
Rondeau
RONDEAU, 'DO, n. 1. A kind of poetry, commonly consisting of thirteen verses, of which eight have one rhyme, and five another. It is divided into three couplets, and at the end of the second and third, the beginning of the rondeau is repeated in an equivocal sense, if possible.2. In music, the rondo, vocal or instrumental, generally consists of three strains, the first of which closes in the original key, while each of the others is so constructed in modulation as to reconduct the ear in an easy and natural manner to the first strain.3. A kind of jig or lively tune that ends with the first strain repeated.
Rondle
RON'DLE, noun [from round.] A round mass. [Not in use.]
Rondure
RON'DURE, noun A round; a circle. [Not in use.]
Rong
RONG, the old preterit tense and participle passive of ring, now rung.
Ronion
RONION, noun run'yon. A fat bulky woman. [Not in use.]
Ront
RONT, noun An animal stinted in its growth. [Now written and pronounced runt.]
Rood
ROOD, noun [a different orthography of rod, which see.]
1. The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods. [See Acre.]
2. A pole; a measure of five yards; a rod or perch. [Not used in America, and probably local in England.]
ROOD, noun The cross; or an image of Christ, of the virgin Mary and a saint or St. John, on each side of it.
Roodloft
ROOD'LOFT, noun A loft or gallery in a church on which relics and images were set to view.
Roof
ROOF, noun
1. The cover or upper part of a house or other building, consisting of rafters covered with boards, shingles or tiles, with a side or sides sloping from the ridge, for the purpose of carrying off the water that falls in rain or snow. In Asia, the roofs of houses are flat or horizontal. The same name, roof is given to the sloping covers of huts, cabins and ricks; to the arches of ovens, furnaces, etc.
2. A vault; an arch; or the interior of a vault; as the roof of heaven.
3. The vault of the mouth; the upper part of the mouth; the palate.
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. .
ROOF, verb transitive
1. To cover with a roof
I have not seen the remains of any Roman buildings, that have not been roofed with vaults or arches.
2. To inclose in a house; to shelter.
Here had we now our country's honor roof'd.
Roofed
ROOF'ED, participle passive Furnished or covered with a roof or arch.
Roofing
ROOF'ING, participle present tense Covering with a roof.
ROOF'ING, noun The materials of which a roof is composed; or materials for a roof.
Roofless
ROOF'LESS, adjective
1. Having no roof; as a roofless house.
2. Having no house or home; unsheltered.
Roofy
ROOF'Y, adjective Having roofs.
Rook
ROOK, noun [Latin graculus; probably from its voice. See Crow and Croak.]
1. A fowl of the genus Corvus, the fowl mentioned by Virgil under this name. This fowl resembles the crow, but differs from it in not feeding on carrion, but on insects and grain. In crows also the nostrils and root of the bill are clothed with feathers, but in rooks the same parts are naked, or have only a few bristly hairs. The rook is gregarious.
2. A cheat; a trickish, rapacious fellow.
ROOK, noun A common man at chess.
ROOK, verb intransitive To cheat; to defraud.
ROOK, verb transitive To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
ROOK, verb intransitive To squat. [See Ruck.]
Rookery
ROOK'ERY, noun
1. A nursery of rooks.
2. In low language, a brothel.
Rooky
ROOK'Y, adjective Inhabited by rooks; as the rooky wood.
Room
ROOM, noun
1. Space; compass; extent of place, great or small. Let the words occupy as little room as possible.
2. Space or place unoccupied.
Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room .
3. Place for reception or admission of any thing. In this case, there is no room for doubt or for argument.
4. Place of another; stead; as in succession or substitution. One magistrate or king comes in the room of a former one. We often place one thing in the room of another. .
5. Unoccupied opportunity. The eager pursuit of wealth leaves little room for serious reflection.
6. An apartment in a house; any division separated from the rest by a partition; as a parlor, drawing room or bed-room; also an apartment in a ship, as the cook-room, bread-room, gun-room, etc.
7. A seat. .
To make room to open a way or passage; to free from obstructions.
To make room to open a space or place for any thing.
To give room to withdraw; to leave space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated.
ROOM, verb intransitive To occupy an apartment; to lodge; an academic use of the word. A B rooms at No. 7.
Roomage
ROOM'AGE, noun [from room.] Space; place. [Not used.]
Roomful
ROOM'FUL, adjective Abounding with rooms.
Roominess
ROOM'INESS, noun Space; spaciousness; large extent of space.
Roomth, space, and roomthy, spacious, are ill formed words and not used in the United States.
Roomy
ROOM'Y, adjective Spacious; wide; large; having ample room; as a roomy mansion; a roomy deck.
Roost
ROOST, noun
The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night.
He clapp'd his wings upon his roost
At roost in a state for rest and sleep.
ROOST, verb intransitive
1. To sit, rest or sleep, as fowls on a pole, tree or other thing at night.
2. To lodge, in burlesque.
Roosting
ROOST'ING, participle present tense Sitting for rest and sleep at night.
Root
ROOT, noun [Latin radix. A root is a shoot, and only a different application of rod, Latin radius.]
1. That part of a plant which enters and fixes itself in the earth, and serves to support the plant in an erect position, while by means of its fibrils it imbibes nutriment for the stem, branches and fruit.
2. The part of any thing that resembles the roots of a plant in manner of growth; as the roots of a cancer, of teeth, etc.
3. The bottom or lower part of any thing.
Deep to the roots of hell -
Burnet uses root of a mountain, but we now say base, foot or bottom. See .
4. A plant whose root is esculent or the most useful part; as beets, carrots, etc.
5. The original or cause of any thing.
The love of money is the root of all evil. .
6. The first ancestor.
They were the roots out of which sprung two distinct people -
7. In arithmetic and algebra, the root of any quantity is such a quantity as, when multiplied into itself a certain number of times, will exactly produce that quantity. Thus 2 is a root of 4, because when multiplied into itself, it exactly produces 4.
8. Means of growth. 'He hath no root in himself; ' that is, no soil in which grace can grow and flourish. .
9. In music, the fundamental note of any chord.
ROOT of bitterness, in Scripture, any error, sin or evil that produces discord or immorality.
To take root to become planted or fixed; or to be established; to increase and spread.
to take deep root to be firmly planted or established; to be deeply impressed.
ROOT, verb intransitive
1. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots.
In deep grounds, the weeds root deeper.
2. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
The multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not take deep rooting.
3. To sink deep.
If any error chanced - to cause misapprehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment.
ROOT, verb transitive
1. To plant and fix deep in the earth; used chiefly in the participle; as rooted trees or forests.
2. To plant deeply; to impress deeply and durably. Let the leading truths of the gospel be deeply rooted in the mind; let holy affections be well rooted in the heart.
3. In Scripture, to be rooted and grounded in Christ, is to be firmly united to him by faith and love, and well established in the belief of his character and doctrines. .
ROOT, verb intransitive or t.
To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. Swine root to find worms; they root the ground wherever they come.
To root up or out, to eradicate; to extirpate; to remove or destroy root and branch; to exterminate. . .
ROOT'-BOUND, adjective Fixed to the earth by roots.
ROOT'-BUILT, adjective Built of roots.
Rooted
ROOT'ED, participle passive Having its roots planted or fixed in the earth; hence, fixed; deep; radical; as rooted sorrow; rooted aversion; rooted prejudices.
Rootedly
ROOT'EDLY, adverb Deeply; from the heart.
Rooter
ROOT'ER, noun One that roots; or one that tears up by the roots.
ROOT'-HOUSE, noun A house made of roots.
Rooting
ROOT'ING, participle present tense Striking or taking root; turning up with the snout.
ROOT'-LEAF, noun A leaf growing immediately from the root.
Rootlet
ROOT'LET, noun A radicle; the fibrous part of a root.
Rooty
ROOT'Y, adjective Full of roots; as rooty ground.
Ropalic
ROPAL'IC, adjective [Gr. a club.] Club-formed; increasing or selling towards the end.
Rope
ROPE, noun
1. A large string or line composed of several strands twisted together. It differs from cord, line and string, only in its size; being the name given to all sorts of cordage above an inch in circumference. Indeed the smaller ropes, when used for certain purposes, are called lines.
ROPEs are by seamen ranked under two descriptions, cable-laid, and hawser-laid; the former composed of nine strands, or three great strands, each consisting of three small ones; the latter made with three strands, each composed of a certain number of rope-yarns.
2. A row or string consisting of a number of things united; as a rope of onions.
3. Ropes, the intestines of birds.
ROPE of sand, proverbially, feeble union or tie; a band easily broken.
ROPE, verb intransitive To draw out or extend into a filament or thread, by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality. Any glutinous substance will rope considerably before it will part.
Rope-Band
RO'PE-BAND, [See Robbin.]
Rope-Bands
ROPE-BANDS, noun [rope and bands.] Short flat plaited pieces of rope with an eye in one end, used in pairs to tie the upper edges of square sails to their yards.
Rope-Dancer
RO'PE-DANCER, noun [rope and dancer.]
One that walks on a rope suspended.
Rope-Ladder
RO'PE-LADDER, noun A ladder made of ropes.
Rope-Maker
RO'PE-MAKER, noun One whose occupation is to make ropes or cordage. [I do not know that roper is ever used.]
Rope-Making
RO'PE-MAKING, noun The art or business of manufacturing ropes or cordage.
Rope-Trick
RO'PE-TRICK, noun A trick that deserves the halter.
Rope-Walk
RO'PE-WALK, noun A long covered walk, or a long building over smooth ground, where ropes are manufactured.
Rope-Yarn
RO'PE-YARN, noun Yarn for ropes, consisting of a single thread. The threads are twisted into strands, and the strands into ropes.
Ropery
RO'PERY, noun
1. A place where ropes are made. [Not used in the United States.]
2. A trick that deserves the halter.
Ropiness
RO'PINESS, noun [from ropy.] Stringiness, or aptness to draw out in a string or thread without breaking, as of glutinous substances; viscosity; adhesiveness.
Ropy
RO'PY, adjective [from rope.] Stringy; adhesive; that may be drawn into a thread; as a glutinous substance; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy wine; ropy lees.
Roquelaur
ROQ'UELAUR, noun A cloak for men.
Roral
RO'RAL, adjective [Latin roralis, from ros, dew.]
Pertaining to dew or consisting of dew; dewy.
Roration
RORA'TION, noun [Latin roratio.] A falling of dew. [Not used.]
Rorid
RO'RID, adjective [Latin roridus.] Dewy.
Roriferous
RORIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin ros, dew, and fero, to produce.] Generating or producing dew.
Rorifluent
RORIF'LUENT, adjective [Latin ros, dew, and fluo, to flow.] Flowing with dew. [Not used.]
Rosaceous
ROSA'CEOUS, a s as z. [Latin rosaceus. See Rose.]
Rose-like; composed of several petals, arranged in a circular form; as a rosaceous corol.
Rosary
RO'SARY, noun s as z. [Latin rosarium. See Rose.]
1. A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.
2. A chaplet.
3. A string of beads used by Roman catholics, on which they count their prayers.
Rosasic
ROSAS'IC, adjective The rosasic acid is obtained from the urine of persons affected with intermitting and nervous fevers.
Roscid
ROS'CID, adjective [Latin roscidus, from ros, dew.]
Dewy; containing dew, or consisting of dew. [Not used.]
Rose
ROSE, noun s as z. [Latin , Gr. from the root of red, ruddy. See Red.]
1. A plant and flower of the genus Rosa, of many species and varieties, as the wild canine or dog-rose, the white rose the red rose the cinnamon rose the eglantine or sweet briar, etc. There are five petals; the calyx is urceolate, quinquefid, and corneous; the seeds are numerous, hispid, and fixed to the inside of the calyx.
2. A knot of ribbon in the form of a rose used as an ornamental tie of a shoe.
Under the rose in secret; privately; in a manner that forbids disclosure.
ROSE of Jericho, a plant growing on the plain of Jericho, the Anastatica hierochuntica.
ROSE, preterit tense of rise.
Rose-Gall
RO'SE-GALL, noun An excrescence on the dog-rose.
Rose-Mallow
ROSE-MALLOW, noun A plant of the genus Alcea, larger than the common mallow.
Rose-Noble
RO'SE-NOBLE, noun A ancient English gold coin, stamped with the figure of a rose, first struck in the reign of Edward III and current at 6s. 8d. or according to Johnson, at 16 shillings.
Rose-Quartz
RO'SE-QUARTZ, noun A subspecies of quartz, rose red or milk white.
Rose-Root
RO'SE-ROOT, noun A plant of the genus Rhodiola.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.