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.

A fleshy-leaved herb (Rhodiola rosea); rosewort; -- so called because the roots have the odor of roses.

A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1.

A red color used by painters.

An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.

A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machaerium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra.

The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacaecia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds.

Roseroot. Any plant nearly related to the rose.

Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.

Decorated with roses, or with the color of roses.

A rosebush; roses, collectively.

In a rosy manner.

To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.

The quality of being rosy.

The compass plant. See under Compass. A name given in California to various composite plants which secrete resins or have a resinous smell.

like rosin, or having its qualities.

heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.

A fabulous sea animal which was reported to climb by means of its teeth to the tops of rocks to feed upon the dew.

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex red dyestuff (called rosolic acid) which is analogous to rosaniline and aurin. It is produced by oxidizing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with bases, and stable ones with acids. Called also methyl aurin, and, formerly, corallin.

To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark.

Light land; rosland.

Loose; light.

See Roust.

same as Rostellum.

Pertaining to a rostellum.

Having a rostellum, or small beak; terminating in a beak.

Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak.

A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm.

A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.

See Rostrum, 2.

Of or pertaining to the beak or snout of an animal, or the beak of a ship; resembling a rostrum, esp., the rostra at Rome, or their decorations.

Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.

A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.

Having the form of a beak.

A little rostrum, or beak, as of an insect.

The beak or head of a ship.

Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.

Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.

Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.

A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.

See Rhotacism.

Relating to wheels or to rotary motion; rotary.

Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under Rhizopod.

Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion.

Same as Gyroscope, 1.

To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.

Turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate.

Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.

turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational.

that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.

Same as Rotifera.

A rotifer.

A very small arctic sea bird (Mergulus alle, or Alle alle) common on both coasts of the Atlantic in winter; -- called also little auk, dovekie, rotch, rotchie, and sea dove.

To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.

Any one of numerous species of small, polished, brightcolored gastropods of the genus Rotella, native of tropical seas.

A chemical substance (C23H22O6) extracted from the root of the derris (Derris elliptica, Derris malaccensis, and other species), used in treatment of scabies and as an insecticide for external infestation by chiggers in human medicine, and in veterinary medicine for the treatment of infestations with fleas, ticks, and lice.

Bad small beer.

A rudder.

One of the Rotifera. See Illust. in Appendix.

An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits.

Wheel-shaped; as, rotiform appendages.

A photograph printed by a process in which a strip or roll of sensitized paper is automatically fed over the negative so that a series of prints are made, and are then developed, fixed, cut apart, and washed at a very rapid rate.

The rotating part of a generator or motor. Contrasted with stator, the stationary part.

See Rota.

Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.

The patella, or kneepan.

Of or pertaining to the rotula, or kneepan.

A rotunda.

A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.

Rounded; especially, rounded at the end or ends, or at the corners.

Having round leaves.

The state or quality of being rotu/; roundness; sphericity; circularity.

Roundness; rotundity.

See Rotunda.

The condition of being a roturier.

A roturier.

A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.

To make rotten.

A coin. See Ruble.

See Ruche.

One devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.

A small wheel formerly fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them.

To tint with rouge; as, to rouge the face or the cheeks.

One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.

One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.

To render rough; to roughen.

Feather-footed; as, a rough-footed dove.

Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not polished; brisque.

Having the legs covered with feathers; -- said of a bird.

A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.

One who roughcasts.

To draw or delineate rapidly and by way of a first sketch.

in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.

To grow or become rough.

The redfin.

To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber.

One who roughhews.

Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.

The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.

Rowen.

Somewhat rough.

Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough-legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard.

In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.

The quality or state of being rough.

One who breaks horses; especially (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry, whose duty is to assist the riding master.

A rough, coarse fellow; collectively, the lowest class of the people; the rabble; the riffraff.

A mason who builds rough stonework.

Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.

Pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support.

imp. of Reck, to care.

Any species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidae; -- so called from their rough tails.

To work over coarsely, without regard to nicety, smoothness, or finish.

Wrought in a rough, unfinished way; worked over coarsely.