A bold, stout robber, or night thief; -- said to be so called from Robin Hood.

A small European singing bird (Erythacus rubecula), having a reddish breast; -- called also robin redbreast, robinet, and ruddock. An American singing bird (Merula migratoria), having the breast chestnut, or dull red. The upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish. Called also robin redbreast, and migratory thrush. Any one of several species of Australian warblers of the genera Petroica, Melanadrays, and allied genera; as, the scarlet-breasted robin (Petroica mullticolor). Any one of several Asiatic birds; as, the Indian robins. See Indian robin, below.

The chaffinch; -- called also roberd. The European robin.

The act of putting on a robe.

A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America (Robinia Pseudocacia).

The California white oak (Quercus lobata).

Strengthening. A strengthening medicine; a tonic.

To give strength or support to; to confirm.

The act of strengthening.

Made of oak.

Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.

Robust.

In a robust manner.

The quality or state of being robust.

A monstrous bird of Arabian mythology.

Artificial rockwork made of rough stones and cement, as for gardens. The rococo system of scroll ornament, based in part on the forms of shells and water-worn rocks.

A name of Allium Scorodoprasum and Allium Ascalonium, two kinds of garlic, the latter of which is also called shallot.

Pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the oxalic series found in archil (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), and other lichens, and extracted as a white crystalline substance C17H32O4.

A red dyestuff, used as a substitute for cochineal, archil, etc. It consists of the sodium salt of a complex azo derivative of naphtol.

Rock.

Lime in the lump after it is burned; quicklime.

A seaport town in France.

The red gurnard, or gurnet. See Gurnard.

To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.

An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.

One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.

Shaped like a rocker; curved; as, a rockered keel.

A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.

To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.

a very intelligent person; -- used mostly in the phrases: /you don't have to be a rocket scientist to . . ./ and /it doesn't take a rocket scientist to . . ./, meaning that the subject that follows is easy to understand.

A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.

Any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (Sebastichthys ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa. The striped bass. See Bass. Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus. An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.

The state or quality of being rocky.

Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking.

A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.

The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.

A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force.

See Rokelay.

Being without rocks.

Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels.

A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European Helianthemum vulgare and the American frostweed, Helianthemum Canadense.

A lamprey.

Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus.

Ligniform asbestus; also, fossil wood.

Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.

Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.

The orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto.

Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.

A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes). An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.

Ruddy.

See Rood, the cross.

One of the Rodentia.

An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.

A round-up. See Round-up.

The gadwall.

Juice of roses mixed with honey.

Bragging; vainly boasting.

To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.

One who boasts.

Rodomontade.

One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party.

Ruddy.

The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male.

A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.

Filled with roe.

The roebuck.

Of or pertaining to the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad R/ntgen, or the rays discovered by him; as, R/ntgen apparatus.

To render (air or other gas) conducting by the passage of R/ntgen rays.

Same as Oolite.

The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree.

Seeking information; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission.

A black flag with white skull and crossbones, formerly used by pirates; -- called also Jolly Roger and pirate flag.

Roger Bacon. A celebrated English philosopher of the thirteenth century. Born at or near Ilchester, Somersetshire, about 1214: died probably at Oxford in 1294. He is credited with a recognition of the importance of experiment in answering questions about the natural world, recognized the potential importance of gunpowder and explosives generally, and wrote comments about several of the physical sciences that anticipated facts proven by experiment only much later.

To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.

The life of a vargant.

The quality or state of being a rogue.

Vagrant.

Roguish.

An inspissated juice. See Rob.

Royal.

To wander; to roam.

Turbid; as, roily water.

A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.

See Roynish.

See Aroint.

See Roister.

See Roisterer.

A blustering, turbulent fellow.

In a roistering manner.

See Rocambole.

Mist; smoke; damp

Parched Indian corn, pounded up and mixed with sugar; -- called also yokeage.

A short cloak.

Misty; foggy; cloudy.

A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the role of philanthropist.

The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.

Capable of being rolled.

One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.

A small wagon used for the underground work of a mine.

To move or play in a careless, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; to frolic; to sport; commonly in the form rollicking.

A kind of sausage, made in a bag of tripe, sliced and fried, famous among the Dutch of New Amsterdam and still known, esp. in New Jersey.

Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.

A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness.

A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream.

A kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit, rolled into a cylindrical form, and boiled or steamed. Shaped like a rolly-poly; short and stout.

A game in which a ball, rolling into a certain place, wins.

A trade name for a type of card file; as, a Rolodex(R) card file. Also used informally and improperly as a noun meaning Rolodex(R) card file.

Rolly-poly.

See Rummage.

Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language. The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic.

An association, including both Japanese and Europeans, having for its object the changing of the Japanese method of writing by substituting Roman letters for Japanese characters. Laso known as Hyojun Romajikai.

A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.

To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.

One who romances.

A romancer.

Romantic.

Romanesque style.

Of or pertaining to Rome or its people.

Pertaining to Romanism.

The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion.