A large horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round; a carousel.
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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.
One who, or that which, rouses.
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.
A closed loop of rubber usually having a thin rectangular cross-section; also called elastic band; -- it varies in length from the circumference of a finger to several inches, and is usually used to hold several objects together temporarily, by the tension exerted when the band is stretched and fitted around the objects to be held; as, to hold a pack of cards together with a rubber band.
To coat or impregnate with rubber or a rubber solution or preparation, as silk.
Rubbish.
a. n. from Rub, v.
Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.
Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
See Rubble, 1 and 2.
Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
Relating to, or containing, rubble.
Reddish.
Making red. An external application which produces redness of the skin.
The act or process of making red.
A little ruby.
An acute but mild viral infection characterized by a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but attended by only mild respiratory problems or fever; -- called also German measles. The infective virus is called Rubella virus, or Rubivirus. If contracted by a woman during the first several months of pregnancy, rubella may cause serious abnormalities in the fetus.
The virus that causes rubella.
A red color used in enameling.
A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium.
the measles. Rubella.
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained.
The quality or state of being rubescent; a reddening; a flush.
Growing or becoming red; tending to redness.
Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms.
A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.
One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root.
pertaining to, or derived from, rubian; specifically, designating an acid called also ruberythrinic acid.
A ribble.
Colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses.
A variety of ruby of a yellowish red color, from Brazil.
A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar.
Inclining to redness; ruddy; red.
The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness.
Of or pertaining to rubidium; containing rubidium.
A nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H17N; also, any one of the group od metameric compounds of which rubidine is the type.
A rare metallic element of the alkali metal series, atomic number 37. It occurs quite widely, but in small quantities, and always combined. It is isolated as a soft yellowish white metal, analogous to potassium in most of its properties. Symbol Rb. Atomic weight, 85.48.
Making red; as, rubific rays.
The act of making red.
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