To move or play in a careless, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; to frolic; to sport; commonly in the form rollicking.
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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.
See Croaker, n., 2. (a).
A circular shield carried by foot soldiers.
A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.
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.
A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers.
A rondeau.
A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
A round; a circle.
Rung (of a ladder).
An instrument for removing small rough portions of bone.
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.
obs. imp. pl. obs. p. p. of Renne, to run.
A runt.
A mangy or scabby creature.
A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.
The pallah.
Rank in growth.
To cover with a roof.
One who puts on roofs.
The act of covering with a roof.
Having no roof; as, a roofless house.
A small roof, covering, or shelter.
The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself.
Having roofs.
To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.
Misty; gloomy.
Spacious; roomy.
Space; place; room.
At a greater distance; farther off.
As much or many as a room will hold; as, a roomful of men.
Spaciously.
The quality or state of being roomy; spaciousness; as, the roominess of a hall.
Being without room or rooms.
One of two or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.
Roomy.
Room; space.
Roomy; spacious.
Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck.
Vermilion red; red.
See Roup.
A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue.
To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.
The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
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.
A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.
Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart.
One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.
Destitute of roots.
A radicle; a little root.
A perennial underground stem, producing leafly stems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome.
Full of roots; as, rooty ground.
See Rhopalic.
To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.
the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.
To punish with a rope's end.
A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar.
One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height.
A maker of ropes.
A place where ropes are made.
A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.
A ropedancer.
In a ropy manner; in a viscous or glutinous manner.
Quality of being ropy; viscosity.
Somewhat ropy.
capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.
A form of croquet modified for greater accuracy of play. The court has a wood border often faced with rubber, used as a cushion in bank shots. The balls are 3/ in. in diameter, the cage (center arches or wickets) 3/ in. wide, the other arches 3/ in. wide.
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