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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.

Rootstock

A perennial underground stem, producing leafly stems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome.

Rooty

Full of roots; as, rooty ground.

Rope

To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.

Rope-yarn

the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.

Ropeband

A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar.

Ropedancer

One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height.

Ropery

A place where ropes are made.

Ropewalk

A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.

Ropily

In a ropy manner; in a viscous or glutinous manner.

Ropiness

Quality of being ropy; viscosity.

Ropy

capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.

Roque

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.

Roquefort Roquefort cheese

A highly flavored blue-molded cheese, made at Roquefort, department of Aveyron, France. It is made from milk of ewes, sometimes with cow's milk added, and is cured in caves. Improperly, a cheese made in imitation of it.

Roquelaure

A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century.

Roquet

To hit another's ball with one's own.

Roral

Of or pertaining to dew; consisting of dew; dewy.

Roric

Of or pertaining to dew; resembling dew; dewy.

Rorqual

A very large North Atlantic whalebone whale (Physalus antiquorum, or Balaenoptera physalus). It has a dorsal fin, and strong longitudinal folds on the throat and belly. Called also razorback.

Rosaceous

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceae) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service trees, and quinces. Like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla.

Rosacic

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also lithic acid) found in certain red precipitates of urine. See Uric.

Rosalia

A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.

Rosaniline

A complex nitrogenous base, C20H21N3O, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red salts. These salts are essential components of many of the socalled aniline dyes, as fuchsine, aniline red, etc. By extension, any one of the series of substances derived from, or related to, rosaniline proper.

Rosary

A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.

Roscid

Containing, or consisting of, dew; dewy.

Roscoelite

A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.

Rose

To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush.

Rose-colored

Having the color of a pink rose; rose-pink; of a delicate pink color.

Rose-cut

Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds and other precious stones. See Rose diamond, under Rose. Cf. Brilliant, n.

Rose-pink

Having a pink color like that of the rose, or like the pigment called rose pink. See Rose pink, under Rose.

Rose-red

Red as a rose; specifically (Zool.), of a pure purplish red color.

Rose-rial

A name of several English gold coins struck in different reigns and having having different values; a rose noble.

Rose-water

Having the odor of rose water; hence, affectedly nice or delicate; sentimental.

Roseal

resembling a rose in smell or color.

Roseate

Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.

Rosebay

the oleander. Any shrub of the genus Rhododendron. An herb (Epilobium spicatum) with showy purple flowers, common in Europe and North America; -- called also great willow herb.

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