ROBUSTNESS — ROOST NWAD ROBUSTNESS.1

ROBUSTNESS, n. Strength; vigor, or the condition of the body when it has full firm flesh and sound health. NWAD ROBUSTNESS.1

ROCAMBOLE, ROKAMBOLE, n. 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. NWAD ROCAMBOLE.1

ROCHE-ALUM, n. NWAD ROCHE-ALUM.1

Rock-alum, a purer kind of alum. NWAD ROCHE-ALUM.2

Rochelle salt, tartrate of potash and soda. NWAD ROCHE-ALUM.3

ROCHET, n. NWAD ROCHET.1

A surplice; the white upper garment of a priest worn while officiating. NWAD ROCHET.2

ROCHET, n. A fish, the roach, which see. NWAD ROCHET.3

ROCK, n. [Gr., L. 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.] NWAD ROCK.1

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. NWAD ROCK.2

2. In Scripture, figuratively, defense; means of safety; protection; strength; asylum. NWAD ROCK.3

The Lord is my rock. 2 Samuel 22:2. NWAD ROCK.4

3. Firmness; a firm or immovable foundation. Psalm 28:1; Matthew 7:24-25; Matthew 16:18. NWAD ROCK.5

4. A species of vulture or condor. NWAD ROCK.6

5. A fabulous bird in the Eastern tales. NWAD ROCK.7

ROCK, n. NWAD ROCK.8

A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, from which the thread is drawn in spinning. NWAD ROCK.9

ROCK, v.t. NWAD ROCK.10

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. NWAD ROCK.11

A rising earthquake rock’d the ground. NWAD ROCK.12

2. To move backwards and forwards in a cradle, chair, etc.; as, to rock a child to sleep. NWAD ROCK.13

3. To lull to quiet. NWAD ROCK.14

Sleep rock thy brain. [Unusual.] NWAD ROCK.15

ROCK, v.i. To be moved backwards and forwards; to reel. NWAD ROCK.16

The rocking town supplants their footsteps. NWAD ROCK.17

ROCK-ALUM, n. The purest kind of alum. [See Roche-alum.] NWAD ROCK-ALUM.1

ROCK-BASON, n. 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. NWAD ROCK-BASON.1

ROCK-BUTTER, n. A subsulphite of alumin, oozing from aluminous rocks. NWAD ROCK-BUTTER.1

ROCK-CRYSTAL, n. 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. NWAD ROCK-CRYSTAL.1

ROCK-DOE, n. A species of deer. NWAD ROCK-DOE.1

ROCKED, pp. [from rock, the verb.] Moved one way and the other. NWAD ROCKED.1

ROCKER, n. One who rocks the cradle; also, the curving piece of wood on which a cradle or chair rocks. NWAD ROCKER.1

ROCKET, n. NWAD ROCKET.1

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. NWAD ROCKET.2

ROCKET, n. [L. 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. NWAD ROCKET.3

ROCK-FISH, n. A species of Gobius. NWAD ROCK-FISH.1

ROCKINESS, n. [from rocky.] State of abounding with rocks. NWAD ROCKINESS.1

ROCKING, ppr. Moving backwards and forwards. NWAD ROCKING.1

ROCKLESS, a. Being without rocks. NWAD ROCKLESS.1

ROCK-OIL, n. Another name for petrol or petroleum. NWAD ROCK-OIL.1

ROCK-PIGEON, n. A pigeon that builds her nest on a rock. NWAD ROCK-PIGEON.1

ROCK-ROSE, n. A plant of the genus Cistus. NWAD ROCK-ROSE.1

ROCK-RUBY, n. A name sometimes given to the garnet, when it is of a strong, but not a deep red, and has a cast of blue. NWAD ROCK-RUBY.1

ROCK-SALT, n. 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. NWAD ROCK-SALT.1

ROCK-WOOD, n. Ligniform asbestus. NWAD ROCK-WOOD.1

ROCK-WORK, n. NWAD ROCK-WORK.1

1. Stones fixed in mortar in imitation of the asperities of rocks, forming a wall. NWAD ROCK-WORK.2

2. A natural wall of rock. NWAD ROCK-WORK.3

ROCKY, a. [from rock.] NWAD ROCKY.1

1. Full of rocks; as a rocky mountain; rocky shore. NWAD ROCKY.2

2. Resembling a rock; as the rocky orb of a shield. NWAD ROCKY.3

3. Very hard; stony; obdurate; insusceptible of impression; as a rocky bosom. NWAD ROCKY.4

ROD, n. [L. radius, ray, radix, root. See also Rad.] NWAD ROD.1

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, NWAD ROD.2

2. An instrument of punishment or correction; chastisement. NWAD ROD.3

I will chasten him with the rod of men. 2 Samuel 7:14; Proverbs 10:13. NWAD ROD.4

3. Discipline; ecclesiastical censures. 1 Corinthians 4:21. NWAD ROD.5

4. A king of scepter. NWAD ROD.6

The rod and bird of peace. NWAD ROD.7

5. A pole for angling; something long and slender. NWAD ROD.8

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. NWAD ROD.9

7. In Scripture, a staff or wand. 1 Samuel 14:27. NWAD ROD.10

8. Support. NWAD ROD.11

Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Psalm 23:4. NWAD ROD.12

9. A shepherd’s crook. Leviticus 27:32. NWAD ROD.13

10. An instrument for threshing. Isaiah 28:27. NWAD ROD.14

11. Power; authority. Psalm 125:3. NWAD ROD.15

12. A tribe or race. Psalm 74:2. NWAD ROD.16

Rod of iron, the mighty power of Christ. Revelation 19:15; Psalm 2:9. NWAD ROD.17

RODE, pret. of ride; also, a cross. [See Rood.] NWAD RODE.1

RODOMONT, n. NWAD RODOMONT.1

A vain boaster. NWAD RODOMONT.2

RODOMONT, a. Bragging; vainly boasting. NWAD RODOMONT.3

RODOMONTADE, n. [See Rodomont.] NWAD RODOMONTADE.1

Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant. NWAD RODOMONTADE.2

I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible. NWAD RODOMONTADE.3

RODOMONTADE, v.i. To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant. NWAD RODOMONTADE.4

RODOMONTADIST, RODOMONTADOR, n. A blustering boaster; one that brags or vaunts. NWAD RODOMONTADIST.1

ROE, ROEBUCK, n. NWAD ROE.1

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. NWAD ROE.2

2. Roe, the female of the hart. NWAD ROE.3

ROE, n. NWAD ROE.4

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. NWAD ROE.5

ROE-STONE, n. Called also oolite, which see. NWAD ROE-STONE.1

ROGATION, n. [L. rogatio; rogo, to ask.] NWAD ROGATION.1

1. Litany; supplication. NWAD ROGATION.2

He perfecteth the rogations or litanies before in use. NWAD ROGATION.3

2. In Roman jurisprudence, the demand by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people. NWAD ROGATION.4

ROGATION-WEEK, n. 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. NWAD ROGATION-WEEK.1

ROGUE, n. rog. [Gr., Eng. rogue, by transposition of letters. The word arga, in the laws of the Longobards, denotes a cuckold.] NWAD ROGUE.1

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. NWAD ROGUE.2

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. NWAD ROGUE.3

The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. NWAD ROGUE.4

3. A name of slight tenderness and endearment. NWAD ROGUE.5

Alas, poor rogue, I think indeed she loves. NWAD ROGUE.6

4. A wag. NWAD ROGUE.7

ROGUE, v.i. rog. NWAD ROGUE.8

1. To wander; to play the vagabond. [Little used.] NWAD ROGUE.9

2. To play knavish tricks. [Little used.] NWAD ROGUE.10

ROGUERY, n. NWAD ROGUERY.1

1. The life of a vagrant. [Not little used.] NWAD ROGUERY.2

2. Knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. NWAD ROGUERY.3

Tis no scandal grown, for debt and roguery to quit the town. NWAD ROGUERY.4

3. Waggery; arch tricks; mischievousness. NWAD ROGUERY.5

ROGUESHIP, n. The qualities or personage of a rogue. NWAD ROGUESHIP.1

ROGUISH, a. NWAD ROGUISH.1

1. Vagrant; vagabond. [Nearly obsolete.] NWAD ROGUISH.2

2. Knavish; fraudulent; dishonest. [This is the present sense of the word.] NWAD ROGUISH.3

3. Waggish; wanton; slightly mischievous. NWAD ROGUISH.4

ROGUISHLY, adv. Like a rogue; knavishly; wantonly. NWAD ROGUISHLY.1

ROGUISHNESS, n. NWAD ROGUISHNESS.1

1. The qualities of a rogue; knavery; mischievousness. NWAD ROGUISHNESS.2

2. Archness; sly cunning; as the roguishness of a look. NWAD ROGUISHNESS.3

ROGUY, a. Knavish; wanton. [Not in use.] NWAD ROGUY.1

ROIL, v.t. NWAD ROIL.1

1. To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment; as, to roil wine, cider or other liquor in casks or bottles. NWAD ROIL.2

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.] NWAD ROIL.3

3. To perplex. [Local in England.] NWAD ROIL.4

ROILED, pp. Rendered turbid or foul by disturbing the lees or sediment; angered slightly; disturbed in mind by an offense. NWAD ROILED.1

ROILING, ppr. Rendering turbid; or exciting the passion of anger. NWAD ROILING.1

[Note. This word is as legitimate as any in the language.] NWAD ROILING.2

ROINT, [See Aroynt.] NWAD ROINT.1

ROIST, ROISTER, v.i. NWAD ROIST.1

To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting or turbulent. [Not in use.] NWAD ROIST.2

ROISTER, ROISTERER, n. A bold, blustering, turbulent fellow. [Not in use.] NWAD ROISTER.1

ROKY, a. [See Reek.] Misty; foggy; cloudy. [Not in use.] NWAD ROKY.1

ROLL, v.t. [It is usual to consider this word as formed by contraction from the Latin rotula, a little wheel, from rota.] NWAD ROLL.1

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. NWAD ROLL.2

2. To revolve; to turn on its axis; as, to roll a wheel or a planet. NWAD ROLL.3

3. To move in a circular direction. NWAD ROLL.4

To dress, to troll the tongue and roll the eye. NWAD ROLL.5

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. NWAD ROLL.6

5. To enwrap; to bind or involve in a bandage or the like. NWAD ROLL.7

6. To form by rolling into round masses. NWAD ROLL.8

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. NWAD ROLL.9

8. To spread with a roller or rolling pin; as, to roll paste. NWAD ROLL.10

9. To produce a periodical revolution. NWAD ROLL.11

Heav’n shone and roll’d her motions. NWAD ROLL.12

10. To press or level with a roller; as, to roll a field. NWAD ROLL.13

To roll one’s self, to wallow. Micah 1:10. NWAD ROLL.14

ROLL, v.i. NWAD ROLL.15

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. NWAD ROLL.16

2. To move, turn or run on an axis; as a wheel. [In this sense, revolve is more generally used.] NWAD ROLL.17

3. To run on wheels. NWAD ROLL.18

And to the rolling chair is bound. NWAD ROLL.19

4. To revolve; to perform a periodical revolution; as the rolling year. Ages roll away. NWAD ROLL.20

5. To turn; to move circularly. NWAD ROLL.21

And his red eyeballs roll with living fire. NWAD ROLL.22

6. To float in rough water; to be tossed about. NWAD ROLL.23

Twice ten tempestuous nights I roll’d - NWAD ROLL.24

7. To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swells and depressions. Waves roll on waves. NWAD ROLL.25

8. To fluctuate; to move tumultuously. NWAD ROLL.26

What diff’rent sorrows did within thee roll. NWAD ROLL.27

9. To be moved with violence; to be hurled. NWAD ROLL.28

Down they fell by thousands, angel on archangel roll’d. NWAD ROLL.29

10. To be formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls well. NWAD ROLL.30

11. To spread under a roller or rolling pin. The paste rolls well. NWAD ROLL.31

12. To wallow; to tumble; as, a horse rolls. NWAD ROLL.32

13. To rock or move from side; as, a ship rolls in a calm. NWAD ROLL.33

14. To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear. NWAD ROLL.34

ROLL, n. NWAD ROLL.35

1. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as the roll of a ball. NWAD ROLL.36

2. The thing rolling. NWAD ROLL.37

3. A mass made round; something like a ball or cylinder; as a roll of fat; a roll of wool. NWAD ROLL.38

4. A roller; a cylinder of wood, iron or stone; as a roll to break clods. NWAD ROLL.39

5. A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as a roll of woolen or satin; a roll of lace. NWAD ROLL.40

6. A cylindrical twist of tobacco. NWAD ROLL.41

7. An official writing; a list; a register; a catalogue; as a muster-roll; a court roll. NWAD ROLL.42

8. The beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear. NWAD ROLL.43

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. NWAD ROLL.44

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. NWAD ROLL.45

11. A chronicle; history; annals. NWAD ROLL.46

Nor names more noble graced the rolls of fame. NWAD ROLL.47

12. Part; office; that is, round of duty, like turn. Obs. NWAD ROLL.48

ROLLED, pp. Moved by turning; formed into a round or cylindrical body; leveled with a roller, as land. NWAD ROLLED.1

ROLLER, n. NWAD ROLLER.1

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. NWAD ROLLER.2

2. A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery. NWAD ROLLER.3

3. A bird of the magpie kind, about the size of a jay. NWAD ROLLER.4

A bird of the genus Coracias, found in Europe; called also the German parrot. NWAD ROLLER.5

ROLLING, ppr. Turning over; revolving; forming into a cylinder or round mass; leveling, as land. NWAD ROLLING.1

ROLLING, n. The motion of a ship from side to side. NWAD ROLLING.2

ROLLING-PIN, n. A round piece of wood, tapering at each end, with which paste is molded and reduced to a proper thickness. NWAD ROLLING-PIN.1

ROLLING-PRESS, n. 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. NWAD ROLLING-PRESS.1

ROLLY-POOLY, n. [said to be roll and pool, or roll, ball and pool.] NWAD ROLLY-POOLY.1

A game in which a ball, rolling into a certain place, wins. NWAD ROLLY-POOLY.2

ROMAGE, n. Bustle; tumultuous search. [See Rummage.] NWAD ROMAGE.1

ROMAL, n. romaul’. A species of silk handkerchief. NWAD ROMAL.1

ROMAN, a. [L. 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.] NWAD ROMAN.1

1. Pertaining to Rome, or to the Roman people. NWAD ROMAN.2

2. Romish; popish; professing the religion of the pope. NWAD ROMAN.3

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. NWAD ROMAN.4

ROMAN, n. NWAD ROMAN.5

1. A native of rome. NWAD ROMAN.6

2. A citizen of Rome; one enjoying the privileges of a Roman citizen. NWAD ROMAN.7

3. One of the christian church at Rome to which Paul addressed an epistle, consisting of converts from Judaism or paganism. NWAD ROMAN.8

ROMANCE, n. romans’, ro’mans. NWAD ROMANCE.1

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. NWAD ROMANCE.2

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. NWAD ROMANCE.3

2. A fiction. NWAD ROMANCE.4

ROMANCE, v.i. romans’, ro’mans. To forge and tell fictitious stories; to deal in extravagant stories. NWAD ROMANCE.5

ROMANCER, n. NWAD ROMANCER.1

1. One who invents fictitious stories. NWAD ROMANCER.2

2. A writer of romance. NWAD ROMANCER.3

ROMANCING, ppr. Inventing and telling fictitious tales; building castles in the air. NWAD ROMANCING.1

ROMANCY, a. Romantic. [Not proper.] NWAD ROMANCY.1

ROMANISM, n. The tenets of the church of Rome. NWAD ROMANISM.1

ROMANIST, n. An adherent to the papal religion; a Roman catholic. NWAD ROMANIST.1

ROMANIZE, v.t. NWAD ROMANIZE.1

1. To latinize; to fill with Latin words or modes of speech. NWAD ROMANIZE.2

2. To convert to the Roman catholic religion, or to papistical opinions. NWAD ROMANIZE.3

ROMANIZE, v.i. To conform to Romish opinions, customs or modes of speech. NWAD ROMANIZE.4

ROMANIZED, pp. Latinized. NWAD ROMANIZED.1

ROMANSH, n. The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin. NWAD ROMANSH.1

ROMANTIC, a. NWAD ROMANTIC.1

1. Pertaining to romance, or resembling it; wild; fanciful; extravagant; as a romantic taste; romantic notions; romantic expectations; romantic zeal. NWAD ROMANTIC.2

2. Improbably or chimerical; fictitious; as a romantic tale. NWAD ROMANTIC.3

3. Fanciful; wild; full of wild or fantastic scenery; as a romantic prospect or landscape; a romantic situation. NWAD ROMANTIC.4

ROMANTICALLY, adv. Wildly; extravagantly. NWAD ROMANTICALLY.1

ROMANTICNESS, n. NWAD ROMANTICNESS.1

1. Wildness; extravagance; fancifulness. NWAD ROMANTICNESS.2

2. Wildness of scenery. NWAD ROMANTICNESS.3

ROMANZOVITE, n. A recently discovered mineral of the garnet kind, of a brown or brownish yellow color; named from count Romanzoff. NWAD ROMANZOVITE.1

ROMEPENNY, ROMESCOT, n. A tax of a penny on a house, formerly paid by the people of England to the church of Rome. NWAD ROMEPENNY.1

ROMISH, a. [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. NWAD ROMISH.1

ROMIST, n. A papist. NWAD ROMIST.1

ROMP, n. [a different spelling of ramp. See Ramp and Romance.] NWAD ROMP.1

1. A rude girl who indulges in boisterous play. NWAD ROMP.2

2. Rude play or frolic. NWAD ROMP.3

Romp loving miss is haul’d about in gallantry robust. NWAD ROMP.4

ROMP, v.i. To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play. NWAD ROMP.5

ROMPING, ppr. Playing rudely; as a noun, rude boisterous play. NWAD ROMPING.1

ROMPISH, a. Given to rude play; inclined to romp. NWAD ROMPISH.1

ROMPISHNESS, n. Disposition to rude boisterous play; or the practice of romping. NWAD ROMPISHNESS.1

ROMPU, ROMPEE, n. [L. rumpo, to break.] In heraldry, an ordinary that is broken, or a chevron, a bend or the like, whose upper points are cut off. NWAD ROMPU.1

RONDEAU, RONDO, n. NWAD RONDEAU.1

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. NWAD RONDEAU.2

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. NWAD RONDEAU.3

3. A kind of jig or lively tune that ends with the first strain repeated. NWAD RONDEAU.4

RONDLE, n. [from round.] A round mass. [Not in use.] NWAD RONDLE.1

RONDURE, n. A round; a circle. [Not in use.] NWAD RONDURE.1

RONG, the old pret. and pp. of ring, now rung. NWAD RONG.1

RONION, n. run’yon. A fat bulky woman. [Not in use.] NWAD RONION.1

RONT, n. An animal stinted in its growth. [Now written and pronounced runt.] NWAD RONT.1

ROOD, n. [a different orthography of rod, which see.] NWAD ROOD.1

1. The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods. [See Acre.] NWAD ROOD.2

2. A pole; a measure of five yards; a rod or perch. [Not used in America, and probably local in England.] NWAD ROOD.3

ROOD, n. The cross; or an image of Christ, of the virgin Mary and a saint or St. John, on each side of it. NWAD ROOD.4

ROODLOFT, n. A loft or gallery in a church on which relics and images were set to view. NWAD ROODLOFT.1

ROOF, n. NWAD ROOF.1

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. NWAD ROOF.2

2. A vault; an arch; or the interior of a vault; as the roof of heaven. NWAD ROOF.3

3. The vault of the mouth; the upper part of the mouth; the palate. NWAD ROOF.4

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. Psalm 137:6. NWAD ROOF.5

ROOF, v.t. NWAD ROOF.6

1. To cover with a roof. NWAD ROOF.7

I have not seen the remains of any Roman buildings, that have not been roofed with vaults or arches. NWAD ROOF.8

2. To inclose in a house; to shelter. NWAD ROOF.9

Here had we now our country’s honor roof’d. NWAD ROOF.10

ROOFED, pp. Furnished or covered with a roof or arch. NWAD ROOFED.1

ROOFING, ppr. Covering with a roof. NWAD ROOFING.1

ROOFING, n. The materials of which a roof is composed; or materials for a roof. NWAD ROOFING.2

ROOFLESS, a. NWAD ROOFLESS.1

1. Having no roof; as a roofless house. NWAD ROOFLESS.2

2. Having no house or home; unsheltered. NWAD ROOFLESS.3

ROOFY, a. Having roofs. NWAD ROOFY.1

ROOK, n. [L. graculus; probably from its voice. See Crow and Croak.] NWAD ROOK.1

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. NWAD ROOK.2

2. A cheat; a trickish, rapacious fellow. NWAD ROOK.3

ROOK, n. A common man at chess. NWAD ROOK.4

ROOK, v.i. To cheat; to defraud. NWAD ROOK.5

ROOK, v.t. To cheat; to defraud by cheating. NWAD ROOK.6

ROOK, v.i. To squat. [See Ruck.] NWAD ROOK.7

ROOKERY, n. NWAD ROOKERY.1

1. A nursery of rooks. NWAD ROOKERY.2

2. In low language, a brothel. NWAD ROOKERY.3

ROOKY, a. Inhabited by rooks; as the rooky wood. NWAD ROOKY.1

ROOM, n. NWAD ROOM.1

1. Space; compass; extent of place, great or small. Let the words occupy as little room as possible. NWAD ROOM.2

2. Space or place unoccupied. NWAD ROOM.3

Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. Luke 14:22. NWAD ROOM.4

3. Place for reception or admission of any thing. In this case, there is no room for doubt or for argument. NWAD ROOM.5

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. 1 Kings 20:24. NWAD ROOM.6

5. Unoccupied opportunity. The eager pursuit of wealth leaves little room for serious reflection. NWAD ROOM.7

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. NWAD ROOM.8

7. A seat. Luke 14:7-10. NWAD ROOM.9

To make room, to open a way or passage; to free from obstructions. NWAD ROOM.10

To make room, to open a space or place for any thing. NWAD ROOM.11

To give room, to withdraw; to leave space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated. NWAD ROOM.12

ROOM, v.i. To occupy an apartment; to lodge; an academic use of the word. A B rooms at No. 7. NWAD ROOM.13

ROOMAGE, n. [from room.] Space; place. [Not used.] NWAD ROOMAGE.1

ROOMFUL, a. Abounding with rooms. NWAD ROOMFUL.1

ROOMINESS, n. Space; spaciousness; large extent of space. NWAD ROOMINESS.1

Roomth, space, and roomthy, spacious, are ill formed words and not used in the United States. NWAD ROOMINESS.2

ROOMY, a. Spacious; wide; large; having ample room; as a roomy mansion; a roomy deck. NWAD ROOMY.1

ROOST, n. NWAD ROOST.1

The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night. NWAD ROOST.2

He clapp’d his wings upon his roost. NWAD ROOST.3

At roost, in a state for rest and sleep. NWAD ROOST.4

ROOST, v.i. NWAD ROOST.5

1. To sit, rest or sleep, as fowls on a pole, tree or other thing at night. NWAD ROOST.6

2. To lodge, in burlesque. NWAD ROOST.7