ROOSTING — ROUGH-HEWN NWAD ROOSTING.1

ROOSTING, ppr. Sitting for rest and sleep at night. NWAD ROOSTING.1

ROOT, n. [L. radix. A root is a shoot, and only a different application of rod, L. radius.] NWAD ROOT.1

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. NWAD ROOT.2

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. NWAD ROOT.3

3. The bottom or lower part of any thing. NWAD ROOT.4

Deep to the roots of hell - NWAD ROOT.5

Burnet uses root of a mountain, but we now say base, foot or bottom. See Job 28:9. NWAD ROOT.6

4. A plant whose root is esculent or the most useful part; as beets, carrots, etc. NWAD ROOT.7

5. The original or cause of any thing. NWAD ROOT.8

The love of money is the root of all evil. 1 Timothy 6:10. NWAD ROOT.9

6. The first ancestor. NWAD ROOT.10

They were the roots out of which sprung two distinct people - NWAD ROOT.11

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. NWAD ROOT.12

8. Means of growth. “He hath no root in himself;” that is, no soil in which grace can grow and flourish. Matthew 13:21. NWAD ROOT.13

9. In music, the fundamental note of any chord. NWAD ROOT.14

Root of bitterness, in Scripture, any error, sin or evil that produces discord or immorality. NWAD ROOT.15

To take root, to become planted or fixed; or to be established; to increase and spread. NWAD ROOT.16

To take deep root, to be firmly planted or established; to be deeply impressed. NWAD ROOT.17

ROOT, v.i. NWAD ROOT.18

1. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots. NWAD ROOT.19

In deep grounds, the weeds root deeper. NWAD ROOT.20

2. To be firmly fixed; to be established. NWAD ROOT.21

The multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not take deep rooting. NWAD ROOT.22

3. To sink deep. NWAD ROOT.23

If any error chanced - to cause misapprehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment. NWAD ROOT.24

ROOT, v.t. NWAD ROOT.25

1. To plant and fix deep in the earth; used chiefly in the participle; as rooted trees or forests. NWAD ROOT.26

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. NWAD ROOT.27

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. Ephesians 3:17. NWAD ROOT.28

ROOT, v.i. or t. NWAD ROOT.29

To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. Swine root to find worms; they root the ground wherever they come. NWAD ROOT.30

To root up or out, to eradicate; to extirpate; to remove or destroy root and branch; to exterminate. Deuteronomy 29:28; Job 31:8, 12. NWAD ROOT.31

ROOT-BOUND, a. Fixed to the earth by roots. NWAD ROOT-BOUND.1

ROOT-BUILT, a. Built of roots. NWAD ROOT-BUILT.1

ROOTED, pp. Having its roots planted or fixed in the earth; hence, fixed; deep; radical; as rooted sorrow; rooted aversion; rooted prejudices. NWAD ROOTED.1

ROOTEDLY, adv. Deeply; from the heart. NWAD ROOTEDLY.1

ROOTER, n. One that roots; or one that tears up by the roots. NWAD ROOTER.1

ROOT-HOUSE, n. A house made of roots. NWAD ROOT-HOUSE.1

ROOTING, ppr. Striking or taking root; turning up with the snout. NWAD ROOTING.1

ROOT-LEAF, n. A leaf growing immediately from the root. NWAD ROOT-LEAF.1

ROOTLET, n. A radicle; the fibrous part of a root. NWAD ROOTLET.1

ROOTY, a. Full of roots; as rooty ground. NWAD ROOTY.1

ROPALIC, a. [Gr. a club.] Club-formed; increasing or selling towards the end. NWAD ROPALIC.1

ROPE, n. NWAD ROPE.1

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. NWAD ROPE.2

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. NWAD ROPE.3

2. A row or string consisting of a number of things united; as a rope of onions. NWAD ROPE.4

3. Ropes, the intestines of birds. NWAD ROPE.5

Rope of sand, proverbially, feeble union or tie; a band easily broken. NWAD ROPE.6

ROPE, v.i. 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. NWAD ROPE.7

ROPE-BAND, NWAD ROPE-BAND.1

ROPE-DANCER, n. [rope and dancer.] NWAD ROPE-DANCER.1

One that walks on a rope suspended. NWAD ROPE-DANCER.2

ROPE-LADDER, n. A ladder made of ropes. NWAD ROPE-LADDER.1

ROPE-MAKER, n. One whose occupation is to make ropes or cordage. [I do not know that roper is ever used.] NWAD ROPE-MAKER.1

ROPE-MAKING, n. The art or business of manufacturing ropes or cordage. NWAD ROPE-MAKING.1

ROPERY, n. NWAD ROPERY.1

1. A place where ropes are made. [Not used in the United States.] NWAD ROPERY.2

2. A trick that deserves the halter. NWAD ROPERY.3

ROPE-TRICK, n. A trick that deserves the halter. NWAD ROPE-TRICK.1

ROPE-WALK, n. A long covered walk, or a long building over smooth ground, where ropes are manufactured. NWAD ROPE-WALK.1

ROPE-YARN, n. Yarn for ropes, consisting of a single thread. The threads are twisted into strands, and the strands into ropes. NWAD ROPE-YARN.1

ROPINESS, n. [from ropy.] Stringiness, or aptness to draw out in a string or thread without breaking, as of glutinous substances; viscosity; adhesiveness. NWAD ROPINESS.1

ROPY, a. [from rope.] Stringy; adhesive; that may be drawn into a thread; as a glutinous substance; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy wine; ropy lees. NWAD ROPY.1

ROQUELAUR, n. A cloak for men. NWAD ROQUELAUR.1

RORAL, a. [L. roralis, from ros, dew.] NWAD RORAL.1

Pertaining to dew or consisting of dew; dewy. NWAD RORAL.2

RORATION, n. [L. roratio.] A falling of dew. [Not used.] NWAD RORATION.1

RORID, a. [L. roridus.] Dewy. NWAD RORID.1

RORIFEROUS, a. [L. ros, dew, and fero, to produce.] Generating or producing dew. NWAD RORIFEROUS.1

RORIFLUENT, a. [L. ros, dew, and fluo, to flow.] Flowing with dew. [Not used.] NWAD RORIFLUENT.1

ROSACEOUS, a. s as z. [L. rosaceus. See Rose.] NWAD ROSACEOUS.1

Rose-like; composed of several petals, arranged in a circular form; as a rosaceous corol. NWAD ROSACEOUS.2

ROSARY, n. s as z. [L. rosarium. See Rose.] NWAD ROSARY.1

1. A bed of roses, or place where roses grow. NWAD ROSARY.2

2. A chaplet. NWAD ROSARY.3

3. A string of beads used by Roman catholics, on which they count their prayers. NWAD ROSARY.4

ROSASIC, a. The rosasic acid is obtained from the urine of persons affected with intermitting and nervous fevers. NWAD ROSASIC.1

ROSCID, a. [L. roscidus, from ros, dew.] NWAD ROSCID.1

Dewy; containing dew, or consisting of dew. [Not used.] NWAD ROSCID.2

ROSE, n. s as z. [L., Gr. from the root of red, ruddy. See Red.] NWAD ROSE.1

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. NWAD ROSE.2

2. A knot of ribbon in the form of a rose, used as an ornamental tie of a shoe. NWAD ROSE.3

Under the rose, in secret; privately; in a manner that forbids disclosure. NWAD ROSE.4

Rose of Jericho, a plant growing on the plain of Jericho, the Anastatica hierochuntica. NWAD ROSE.5

ROSE, pret. of rise. NWAD ROSE.6

ROSEAL, a. [L. roseus.] Like a rose in smell or color. NWAD ROSEAL.1

ROSEATE, a. NWAD ROSEATE.1

1. Rosy; full of roses; as roseate bowers. NWAD ROSEATE.2

2. Blooming; of a rose color; as roseate beauty. NWAD ROSEATE.3

ROSEBAY, n. A plant, the Nerium oleander. The dwarf rosebay is the rhododendron. NWAD ROSEBAY.1

ROSED, A crimsoned; flushed. NWAD ROSED.1

ROSE-GALL, n. An excrescence on the dog-rose. NWAD ROSE-GALL.1

ROSE-MALLOW, n. A plant of the genus Alcea, larger than the common mallow. NWAD ROSE-MALLOW.1

ROSEMARY, n. [L. rosmarinus, sea-rose; rosa and marinus.] NWAD ROSEMARY.1

A verticillate plant of the genus Rosmarinus, growing naturally in the southern part of France, Spain and Italy. It has a fragrant smell and a warm pungent bitterish taste. NWAD ROSEMARY.2

ROSE-NOBLE, n. 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. NWAD ROSE-NOBLE.1

ROSE-QUARTZ, n. A subspecies of quartz, rose red or milk white. NWAD ROSE-QUARTZ.1

ROSE-ROOT, n. A plant of the genus Rhodiola. NWAD ROSE-ROOT.1

ROSET, n. A red color used by painters. NWAD ROSET.1

ROSE-WATER, n. Water tinctured with roses by distillation. NWAD ROSE-WATER.1

ROSE-WOOD, n. A plant or tree of the genus Aspalathus, growing in warm climates, from which is obtained the oleum rhodii, an agreeable perfume, used in scenting pomatum and liniments. NWAD ROSE-WOOD.1

ROSICRUCIAN, n. [L. ros, dew, and crux, cross; dew, the most powerful dissolvent of gold, according to these fanatics, and cross, the emblem of light.] NWAD ROSICRUCIAN.1

The Rosicrucians were a sect or cabal of hermetical philosophers, or rather fanatics, who sprung up in Germany in the fourteenth century, and made great pretensions to science; and among other things, pretended to be masters of the secret of the philosopher’s stone. NWAD ROSICRUCIAN.2

ROSICRUCIAN, a. Pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts. NWAD ROSICRUCIAN.3

ROSIER, n. ro’zhur. A rose bush. [Not in use.] NWAD ROSIER.1

ROSIN, n. s as z. [This is only a different orthography of resin. L. resina. See Resin.] NWAD ROSIN.1

1. Inspissated turpentine, a juice of the pine. NWAD ROSIN.2

2. Any inspissated matter of vegetables that dissolves in spirit of wine. NWAD ROSIN.3

ROSIN, v.t. To rub with rosin. NWAD ROSIN.4

ROSINESS, n. s as z. The quality of being rosy, or of resembling the color of the rose. NWAD ROSINESS.1

ROSINY, a. Like rosin, or partaking of its qualities. NWAD ROSINY.1

ROSLAND, n. NWAD ROSLAND.1

Heathy land; land full of ling; moorish or watery land. NWAD ROSLAND.2

ROSPO, n. A fish of Mexico, perfectly round, without scales, and good for food. NWAD ROSPO.1

ROSS, n. The rough scaly matter on the surface of the bark of certain trees. NWAD ROSS.1

ROSSEL, n. Light land. [Not used in America.] NWAD ROSSEL.1

ROSSELLY, a. Loose; light. [Not in use.] NWAD ROSSELLY.1

ROSSET, n. The large ternate bat. NWAD ROSSET.1

ROSSIGNOL, n. The nightingale. NWAD ROSSIGNOL.1

ROSTEL, n. [L. rostellum, dim of rostrum, a beak.] NWAD ROSTEL.1

In botany, the descending plane part of the coracle or heart, in the first vegetation of a seed. NWAD ROSTEL.2

ROSTER, n. In military affairs, a plan or table by which the duty of officers is regulated. NWAD ROSTER.1

In Massachusetts, a list of the officers of a division, brigade, regiment or battalion, containing under several heads their names, rank, the corps to which they belong, date of commission and place of abode. These are called division rosters, brigade rosters, regimental or battalion rosters. NWAD ROSTER.2

The word is also used frequently instead of register, which comprehends a general list of all the officers of the state, from the commander in chief to the lowest in commission, under the same appropriate heads, with an additional column for noting the alterations which take place. NWAD ROSTER.3

ROSTRAL, a. [from L. rostrum, beak.] NWAD ROSTRAL.1

1. Resembling the beak of a ship. NWAD ROSTRAL.2

2. Pertaining to the beak. NWAD ROSTRAL.3

ROSTRATE, ROSTRATED, a. [L. rostratus.] NWAD ROSTRATE.1

1. In botany, beaked; having a process resembling the beak of a bird. NWAD ROSTRATE.2

2. Furnished or adorned with beaks; as rostrated galleys. NWAD ROSTRATE.3

ROSTRUM, n. [L.] NWAD ROSTRUM.1

1. The beak or bill of a bird. NWAD ROSTRUM.2

2. The beak or head of a ship. NWAD ROSTRUM.3

3. In ancient Rome, a scaffold or elevated place in the forum, where orations, pleadings funeral harangues, etc., were delivered. NWAD ROSTRUM.4

4. The pipe which conveys the distilling liquor into its receiver, in the common alembic. NWAD ROSTRUM.5

5. A crooked pair of scissors, used by surgeons for dilating wounds. NWAD ROSTRUM.6

ROSY, a. [from rose.] NWAD ROSY.1

1. Resembling a rose in color or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; charming. NWAD ROSY.2

While blooming youth and gay delight sit on thy rosy check contest. NWAD ROSY.3

The rosy morn resigns her light. NWAD ROSY.4

2. Made in the form of a rose. NWAD ROSY.5

ROT, v.i. NWAD ROT.1

To lose the natural cohesion and organization of parts, as animal and vegetable substances; to be decomposed and resolved into its original component parts by the natural process, or the gradual operation of heat and air; to putrefy. NWAD ROT.2

ROT, v.t. To make putrid; to cause to be decomposed by the natural operation of air and heat; to bring to corruption. NWAD ROT.3

ROT, n. NWAD ROT.4

1. A fatal distemper incident to sheep, usually supposed to be owing to wet seasons and moist pastures. The immediate cause of the mortality of sheep, in this disease, is found to be a great number of small animals, called flukes, (Fascida,) found in the liver, and supposed to be produced from eggs swallowed with their food. NWAD ROT.5

2. Putrefaction; putrid decay. NWAD ROT.6

3. Dry rot, in timber, the decay of the wood without the access of water. NWAD ROT.7

ROTA, n. [L. rota. See Rotary.] NWAD ROTA.1

1. An ecclesiastical court of Rome, composed of twelve prelates, of whom one must be a German, another a Frenchman, and two Spaniards; the other eight are Italians. This is one of the most august tribunals in Rome, taking cognizance of all suits in the territory of the church by appeal, and of all matters beneficiary and patrimonial. NWAD ROTA.2

2. In English history, a club of politicians, who, in the time of Charles I. contemplated an equal government by rotation. NWAD ROTA.3

ROTALITE, n. A genus of fossil shells. NWAD ROTALITE.1

ROTARY, a. [L. rota, a wheel. L. curro.] NWAD ROTARY.1

Turning, as a wheel on its axis; as rotary motion. NWAD ROTARY.2

ROTATE, a. In botany, wheel-shaped; monopetalous, spreading flat, without any tube, or expanding into a flat border, with scarcely any tube; as a rotate corol. NWAD ROTATE.1

ROTATED, a. [L. rotatus.] Turned round, as a wheel. NWAD ROTATED.1

ROTATION, n. [L. rotatio, from roto, to turn; rota, a wheel.] NWAD ROTATION.1

1. The act of turning, as a wheel or solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a body revolving round another body or a distant point. Thus the daily turning of the earth on its axis, is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution. NWAD ROTATION.2

2. Vicissitude of succession; the course by which officers or others leave their places at certain times and are succeeded by others; applied also to a change of crops. NWAD ROTATION.3

ROTATIVE, a. Turning, as a wheel; rotary. [Little used.] NWAD ROTATIVE.1

ROTATO-PLANE, a. In botany, wheel-shaped and flat, without a tube; as a rotato-plane corol. NWAD ROTATO-PLANE.1

ROTATOR, n. [L.] That which gives a circular or rolling motion; a muscle producing a rolling motion. NWAD ROTATOR.1

ROTATORY, a. [from rotator.] NWAD ROTATORY.1

1. Turning on an axis, as a wheel; rotary. NWAD ROTATORY.2

2. Going in a circle; following in succession; as rotatory assemblies. NWAD ROTATORY.3

[This word is often used, probably by mistake, for rotary. It may be regularly formed from rotator, but not with the exact sense in which it is used. With rotator for its original, it would signify causing rather than being in a circular motion. The true word is rotary.] NWAD ROTATORY.4

ROTE, n. A kind of violin or harp. Obs. NWAD ROTE.1

ROTE, n. [L. rota, a wheel.] NWAD ROTE.2

Properly, a round of words; frequent repetition of words or sounds, without attending to the signification, or to principles and rules; a practice that impresses words in the memory without an effort of the understanding, and without the aid of rules. Thus children learn to speak by rote; they often repeat what they hear, till it becomes familiar to them. So we learn to sing by rote, as we hear notes repeated, and soon learn to repeat them ourselves. NWAD ROTE.3

ROTE, v.t. To fix in the memory by means of frequent repetition ourselves, or by hearing the repetition of others, without an effort of the understanding to comprehend what is repeated, and without the aid of rules or principles. [Little used.] NWAD ROTE.4

ROTE, v.i. To go out by rotation or succession. [Little used.] NWAD ROTE.5

ROTHER-BEASTS, n. NWAD ROTHER-BEASTS.1

Cattle of the bovine genus; called in England black cattle. [Not used in America.] NWAD ROTHER-BEASTS.2

ROTHER-NAILS, n. [corrupted from rudder-nails.] NWAD ROTHER-NAILS.1

Among shipwrights, nails with very full heads, used for fastening the rudder irons of ships. NWAD ROTHER-NAILS.2

ROTHOFFITE, n. A variety of grenate, brown or black, found in Sweden. It has a resemblance to melanite, another variety, but differs from it in having a small portion of alumin. NWAD ROTHOFFITE.1

ROTOCO, n. An eastern weight of 5 pounds. NWAD ROTOCO.1

ROTTEN, a. rot’n. NWAD ROTTEN.1

1. Putrid; carious; decomposed by the natural process of decay; as a rotten plank. NWAD ROTTEN.2

2. Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective in principle; treacherous; deceitful. NWAD ROTTEN.3

3. Defective in substance; not sound or hard. NWAD ROTTEN.4

4. Fetid; ill smelling. NWAD ROTTEN.5

ROTTENNESS, n. State of being decayed or putrid; cariousness; putrefaction; unsoundness. NWAD ROTTENNESS.1

ROTTEN-STONE, n. A soft stone or mineral, called also Tripoli, terra Tripolitana, from the country from which it was formerly brought. It is used in all sorts of finer grinding and polishing in the arts, and for cleaning furniture of metallic substances. The rotten-stone of Derbyshire, in England, is a Tripoli mixed with calcarious earth. NWAD ROTTEN-STONE.1

ROTUND, a. [L. rotundus, probably formed on rota, a wheel, as jocundus on jocus.] NWAD ROTUND.1

1. Round; circular; spherical. NWAD ROTUND.2

2. In botany, circumscribed by one unbroken curve, or without angles; as a rotund leaf. NWAD ROTUND.3

ROTUNDIFOLIOUS, a. [L. rotundus, round, and folium, a leaf.] Having round leaves. NWAD ROTUNDIFOLIOUS.1

ROTUNDITY, n. Roundness; sphericity; circularity; as the rotundity of a globe. NWAD ROTUNDITY.1

ROTUNDO, n. A round building; any building that is round both on the outside and inside. The most celebrated edifice of this kind is the Pantheon at Rome. NWAD ROTUNDO.1

ROUCOU, n. roo’coo. A substance used in dyeing; the same as anotta. NWAD ROUCOU.1

ROUGE, a. roozh. Red. NWAD ROUGE.1

ROUGE, n. roozh. Red paint; a substance used for painting the cheeks. NWAD ROUGE.2

ROUGE, v.i. [supra.] To paint the face, or rather the cheeks. NWAD ROUGE.3

ROUGE, v.t. [supra.] To paint, or tinge with red paint. NWAD ROUGE.4

ROUGH, a. [L. raucus. Eng. rye, that is rough. L. ruga, a wrinkle. Gr. to snore. L. ruga, a wrinkle, a ridge. See Ridge. The primary sense is to stretch or strain; but applied to roughness or wrinkling, it is to draw or contract, a straining together.] NWAD ROUGH.1

1. Having inequalities, small ridges or points on the surface; not smooth or plane; as a rough board, a rough stone; rough cloth. NWAD ROUGH.2

2. Stony; abounding with stones and stumps; as rough land; or simply with stones; as a rough road. NWAD ROUGH.3

3. Not wrought or polished; as a rough diamond. NWAD ROUGH.4

4. Thrown into huge waves; violently agitated; as a rough sea. NWAD ROUGH.5

5. Tempestuous; stormy; boisterous; as rough weather. NWAD ROUGH.6

6. Austere to the taste; harsh; as rough wine. NWAD ROUGH.7

7. Harsh to the ear; grating; jarring; unharmonious; as rough sounds; rough numbers. NWAD ROUGH.8

8. Rugged of temper; severe; austere; rude; not mild or courteous. NWAD ROUGH.9

A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough. NWAD ROUGH.10

9. Coarse in manners; rude. NWAD ROUGH.11

A surly boatman, rough as seas and wind. NWAD ROUGH.12

10. Harsh; violent; not easy; as a rough remedy. NWAD ROUGH.13

11. Hard featured; not delicate; as a rough visage. NWAD ROUGH.14

12. Harsh; severe; uncivil; as rough usage. NWAD ROUGH.15

13. Terrible; dreadful. NWAD ROUGH.16

On the rough edge of battle, ere it join’d, Satan advanc’d. NWAD ROUGH.17

14. Rugged; disordered in appearance; coarse. NWAD ROUGH.18

Rough from the tossing surge Ulysses moves. NWAD ROUGH.19

15. Hairy; shaggy; covered with hairs, bristles and the like. NWAD ROUGH.20

ROUGH-CAST, v.t. ruf’-cast. [rough and cast.] NWAD ROUGH-CAST.1

1. To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction and polish. NWAD ROUGH-CAST.2

2. To mold without nicety or elegance, or to form with asperities. NWAD ROUGH-CAST.3

3. To cover with a mixture of plaster and shells or pebbles; as, to rough-cast a building. NWAD ROUGH-CAST.4

ROUGH-CAST, n. ruf’-cast. NWAD ROUGH-CAST.5

1. A rude model; the form of a thing in its first rudiments, unfinished. NWAD ROUGH-CAST.6

2. A plaster with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings. NWAD ROUGH-CAST.7

ROUGH-DRAUGHT, n. ruf’-draft. A draught in its rudiments; a draught not perfected; a sketch. NWAD ROUGH-DRAUGHT.1

ROUGH-DRAW, v.t. ruf’-draw. To draw or delineate coarsely. NWAD ROUGH-DRAW.1

ROUGH-DRAWN, pp. ruf’-drawn. Coarsely drawn. NWAD ROUGH-DRAWN.1

ROUGHEN, v.t. ruf’n. [from rough.] To make rough. NWAD ROUGHEN.1

ROUGHEN, v.i. ruf’n. To grow or become rough. NWAD ROUGHEN.2

ROUGH-FOOTED, a. ruf’-footed. Feather-footed; as a rough-footed dove. NWAD ROUGH-FOOTED.1

ROUGH-HEW, v.t. ruf’-hew. [rough and hew.] NWAD ROUGH-HEW.1

1. To hew coarsely without smoothing; as, to rough-hew timber. NWAD ROUGH-HEW.2

2. To give the first form or shape to a thing. NWAD ROUGH-HEW.3

There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. NWAD ROUGH-HEW.4

ROUGH-HEWN, pp. of a ruf’-hewn. NWAD ROUGH-HEWN.1

1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing. NWAD ROUGH-HEWN.2

2. Rugged; unpolished; of coarse manners; rude. NWAD ROUGH-HEWN.3

A rough-hewn seaman. NWAD ROUGH-HEWN.4

3. Unpolished; not nicely finished. NWAD ROUGH-HEWN.5