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.

See 5th Ruck, and Roke.

A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.

A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll.

To make short incisions in with a roulette; to separate by incisions made with a roulette; as, to roulette a sheet of postage stamps.

See Rolly-pooly.

An inhabitant of Roumania; also, the language of Roumania, one of the Romance or Romanic languages descended from Latin, but containing many words from other languages, as Slavic, Turkish, and Greek.

The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again; -- sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.

A giant; anything large; a kind of pea called also marrowfat.

A common hackney horse; a nag.

To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.

to collect or gather together scattered animals, persons, or things.

Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally.

Having a round back or shoulders; round-shouldered.

Any series or sequence of actions.

Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.

The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.

A large horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round; a carousel.

The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.

Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.

A rondelay.

See Rondeau, and Rondel.

One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.

Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish (Coregonus quadrilateralis), less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.

A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Having a round head or top.

A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house.

Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.

Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure.

A little circle.

In a round form or manner.

The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc.

To form into round ridges by plowing.

A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.

A top; a platform at a masthead; -- so called because formerly round in shape.

Roundness; a round or circle.

A nematoid worm.

Round.

An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction.

Rising; -- applied to a bird in the attitude of rising; also, sometmes, to a bird in profile with wings addorsed.

To get or start up; to rise.

Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.

In a rousing manner.

A fruit bat, especially the large species (Pieropus vulgaris) inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.

A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.

A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs.

To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.

A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes. A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.

Ruth; sorrow.

Involving, or pertaining to, routine; ordinary; customary.

A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.

the practice of doing things with undiscriminating, mechanical regularity.

One who habituated to a routine.

Uproarious; riotous.

With that violation of law called a rout. See 5th Rout, 4.

A thickening, made of flour, for soups and gravies.

The act of wandering; a ramble.

One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.

The act of one who roves or wanders.

In a wandering manner.

The state of roving.

The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.

That may be rowed, or rowed upon.

Rowan tree.

A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.

One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow.

Hubbub; uproar.

Uproarious.

Resembling a rowdy in temper or conduct; characteristic of a rowdy.

the conduct of a rowdy.

Formed into a row, or rows; having a row, or rows; as, a twelve-rowed ear of corn.

To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse).

A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.

One who rows with an oar.

See Rowen.

A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar; same as oarlock.

see Roun.

To whisper.

An opening in the side of small vessels of war, near the surface of the water, to facilitate rowing in calm weather.

A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.

Royal.

Printing and writing papers of particular sizes. See under paper, n.

A petty or powerless king.

the principles or conduct of royalists.

An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government.

The act of making loyal to a king.

to make royal.

In a royal or kingly manner; like a king; as becomes a king.

The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty.

To bite; to gnaw.

Mangy; scabby; hence, mean; paltry; troublesome.

same as Roister, Roisterer.

A little king.

Wild; irregular.

The act of rubbing; friction.

The sound of a drum when continuously beaten; hence, a clamorous, repeated sound; a clatter.

Quatrians; as, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Sometimes in pl. construed as sing., a poem in such stanzas.

Robbed; borrowed.

Rubbish.

One who, or that which, rubs. An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning. A coarse file, or the rough part of a file. A whetstone; a rubstone. An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc or a synthetic rubber[4]. The cushion of an electrical machine. One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath. Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub.