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.

A rodomontadist.

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.

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.

One who adheres to Romanism.

To use Latin words and idioms.

One who Romanizes.

The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin.

A romaunt.

Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.

Romantic.

In a romantic manner.

A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.

One who advocates romanticism in modern literature.

Romantically.

The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness.

A gypsy.

See Romance, 5.

A romantic story in verse; as, the /Romaunt of the Rose./

Rumble.

Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear.

A mineral of a hyacinth or honey-yellow color, occuring in square octahedrons. It is an antimonate of calcium.

A drinking cup.

Tending or directed toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church.

A method of notation for all spoken sounds, proposed by Mr. Sweet; -- so called because it is based on the common Roman-letter alphabet. It is like the palaeotype of Mr. Ellis in the general plan, but simpler.

Belonging or relating to Rome, or to the Roman Catholic Church; -- frequently used in a disparaging sense; as, the Romish church; the Romish religion, ritual, or ceremonies.

A Roman Catholic.

A girl who indulges in boisterous play.

Inclined to romp; indulging in romps.

In a romping manner.

Given to rude play; inclined to romp; frolicsome.

Broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, or the like.

Any one of several species of California sciaenoid food fishes, especially Roncador Stearnsi, which is an excellent market fish, and the red roncador (Corvina saturna syn. Johnius saturna).

An American marine food fish (Bathymaster signatus) of the North Pacific coast, allied to the tilefish.