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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

A falling of dew.

Of or pertaining to dew; resembling dew; dewy.

Dewy; bedewed.

generating or producing dew.

Flowing with dew.

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.

Full of, or abounding in, dew.

Dewy.

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.

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

realgar.

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

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.

A cultivator of roses.

A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.

Containing, or consisting of, dew; dewy.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

resembling a rose in smell or color.

Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.

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.

The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open.

The bush or shrub which bears roses.

A lozenge having a rose flavor.

Any one of numerous species of Asiatic finches of the genera Carpodacus, and Propasser, and allied genera, in which the male is more or less colored with rose red.

A large marine scorpaenoid food fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt.

See Rose, n., 4.

See Magenta.

A hydrous arsenite of cobalt, occuring in small red crystals, allied to erythrite.

A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.

a malvaceous plant (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) cultivated in the east and West Indies for its fleshy calyxes, which are used for making tarts and jelly and an acid drink.

The liquid storax of the East Indian Liquidambar orientalis.

A labiate shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) with narrow grayish leaves, growing native in the southern part of France, Spain, and Italy, also in Asia Minor and in China. It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It is used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy.

Consisting of roses; rosy.

A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash.

A rosier; a rosebush.