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Roin

A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.

Roke

Mist; smoke; damp

Rokee Rokeage

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

Roky

Misty; foggy; cloudy.

Role

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.

Roll

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

Roller

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

Rolley

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

Rollic

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

Rollichie Rollejee Rolliche

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.

Rolling

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.

Rolling-pin

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

Rollway

A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream.

Rolly-poly

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.

Rolly-pooly

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

Rolodex

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.

Romaic

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.

Romajikai

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.

Roman

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.

Romance

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

Romanic

Of or pertaining to Rome or its people.

Romanism

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

Romansch

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

Romantic

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

Romanticism

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.

Romanticist

One who advocates romanticism in modern literature.

Romanticness

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

Romaunt

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

Rombowline

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

Romeite Romeine

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

Romeward

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

Romic

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.

Romish

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.

Romp

A girl who indulges in boisterous play.

Romping

Inclined to romp; indulging in romps.

Rompish

Given to rude play; inclined to romp; frolicsome.

Rompu

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

Roncador

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).

Ronchil

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

Ronco

See Croaker, n., 2. (a).

Rondache

A circular shield carried by foot soldiers.

Ronde

A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.

Rondeau

A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule.

Rondel

A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

Rondeletia

A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers.

Rondo

A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.

Rong

Rung (of a ladder).

Rongeur

An instrument for removing small rough portions of bone.

ronin

In Japan, under the feudal system, a samurai who had renounced his clan or who had been discharged or ostracized and had become a wanderer without a lord; an outcast; an outlaw.

Rood

A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.

Roof

To cover with a roof.

Roofing

The act of covering with a roof.

Roofless

Having no roof; as, a roofless house.

Rooflet

A small roof, covering, or shelter.

Rooftree

The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself.

Rook

To cheat; to defraud by cheating.

Rookery

The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.

Room

Spacious; roomy.

Roomer

At a greater distance; farther off.

Roomful

As much or many as a room will hold; as, a roomful of men.

Roominess

The quality or state of being roomy; spaciousness; as, the roominess of a hall.

Roommate

One of two or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.

Roomy

Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck.

Roon

Vermilion red; red.

Roorbach Roorback

A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue.

Roost

To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.

Roostcock

The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.

Rooster

The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.

Root

To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.

Rootcap

A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.

Rooted

Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart.

Rooter

One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.

Rootery

A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.

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