Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 73
Rocker (n.) One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.
It was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honor, some thirty years since, to attend on your highness in your infancy. -- Fuller.
Rocker (n.) One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks.
Rocker (n.) Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
Rocker (n.) A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.
Rocker (n.) A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair.
Rocker (n.) A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
Rocker (n.) (Mach.) Same as Rock shaft.
Rocker arm (Mach.), An arm borne by a rock shaft.
Rock shaft, () (Mach.) A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.
Compare: Cradle
Cradle (n.) A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.
The cradle that received thee at thy birth. -- Cowper.
No sooner was I crept out of my cradle But I was made a king, at nine months old. -- Shak.
Cradle (n.) Infancy, or very early life.
From their cradles bred together. -- Shak.
A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles. -- Clarendon.
Cradle (n.) (Agric.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
Cradle (n.) (Engraving) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
Cradle (n.) A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
Cradle (n.) (Med.) A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
Cradle (n.) (Med.) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
Cradle (n.) (Mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker. [U.S.]
Cradle (n.) (Mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
Cradle (n.) (Carp.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster. -- Knight.
Cradle (n.) (Naut.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
Cat's cradle. See under Cat.
Cradle hole, A sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot.
Cradle scythe, A broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting grain.
Rocker (n.) An attendant who rocks a child in a cradle.
Rocker (n.) A performer or composer or fan of rock music [syn: rocker, rock 'n' roll musician].
Rocker (n.) A teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles.
Rocker (n.) A chair mounted on rockers [syn: rocking chair, rocker].
Rocker (n.) A trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold [syn: rocker, cradle].
Rocker (n.) An ice skate with a curved blade.
Rocker (n.) A curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro.
Rockered (a.) (Naut.) Shaped like a rocker; curved; as, a rockered keel.
Rockery (n.) (Gardening) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.
Rockery (n.) A garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants [syn: rock garden, rockery].
Rocket (n.) (Bot.) A cruciferous
plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in
Rocket (n.) (Bot.) Damewort.
Rocket (n.) (Bot.) Rocket larkspur. See below.
Dyer's Rocket. (Bot.) See Dyer's broom, under Broom.
Rocket larkspur (Bot.), An annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes ({Delphinium Ajacis).
Sea rocket (Bot.), Either of two fleshy cruciferous plants ({Cakile maritima and Cakile Americana) found on the seashore of Europe and America.
Yellow rocket (Bot.), A common cruciferous weed with yellow flowers ({Barbarea vulgaris).
Rocket (n.) An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.
Rocket (n.) A blunt lance head used in the joust.
Rocket (n.) any flying device propelled by the reactive force of hot gases expelled in the direction opposite its motion. The fuel used to generate the expelled gases in rockets may be solid or liquid; rockets propelled by liquid fuels typically have a combustible fuel (such as hydrogen or kerosene) which is combined inside the rocket engine with an oxidizer, such as liquid oxygen. Single liquid fuels (called monopropellants) are also known. Since rocket engines do not depend on a surrounding fluid medium to generate their thrust, as do airplanes with propellers or jet engines, they may be used for propulsion in the vacuum of space.
Congreve rocket, A powerful form of rocket for use in war, invented by Sir William Congreve. It may be used either in the field or for bombardment; in the former case, it is armed with shells or case shot; in the latter, with a combustible material inclosed in a metallic case, which is inextinguishable when kindled, and scatters its fire on every side.
Rocketed (imp. & p. p.) of Rocket.
Rocketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rocket.
Rocket (v. i.) (Sporting) To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective. [Eng.]
An old cock pheasant came rocketing over me. -- H. R. Haggard.
Compare: Damewort
Damewort (n.) (Bot.) A cruciferrous plant ({Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet. -- Loudon.
Rocket (n.) Any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine [syn: rocket, projectile].
Rocket (n.) A jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion [syn: rocket, rocket engine].
Rocket (n.) Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender [syn: rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, arugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa].
Rocket (n.) Propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon [syn: rocket, skyrocket].
Rocket (n.) Sends a firework display high into the sky [syn: skyrocket, rocket].
Rocket (v.) Shoot up abruptly, like a rocket; "prices skyrocketed" [syn: rocket, skyrocket].
Rocket (v.) Propel with a rocket.
Rocketer (n.) (Sporting) A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket. [Eng.]
Compare: Garrupa
Garrupa (n.) (Zool.) One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.
Compare: Log
Log (n.) See Lie to lie prostrate.]
Log (n.) A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
Log, () (Naut.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.
Note: The common log consists of the log-chip, or logship, often exclusively called the log, and the log line, the former being commonly a thin wooden quadrant of five or six inches radius, loaded with lead on the arc to make it float with the point up. It is attached to the log line by cords from each corner. This line is divided into equal spaces, called knots, each bearing the same proportion to a mile that half a minute does to an hour. The line is wound on a reel which is so held as to let it run off freely. When the log is thrown, the log-chip is kept by the water from being drawn forward, and the speed of the ship is shown by the number of knots run out in half a minute. There are improved logs, consisting of a piece of mechanism which, being towed astern, shows the distance actually gone through by the ship, by means of the revolutions of a fly, which are registered on a dial plate.
Hence: The record of the rate of speed of a ship or airplane, and of the course of its progress for the duration of a voyage; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.
Log, () (Naut.) Hence, generally: A record and tabulated statement of the person(s) operating, operations performed, resources consumed, and the work done by any machine, device, or system.
Log, (Mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
Log, (computers) A record of activities performed within a program, or changes in a database or file on a computer, and typically kept as a file in the computer.
Log board (Naut.), A board consisting of two parts shutting together like a book, with columns in which are entered the direction of the wind, course of the ship, etc., during each hour of the day and night. These entries are transferred to the log book. A folding slate is now used instead.
Log book, or Logbook (Naut.), A book in which is entered the daily progress of a ship at sea, as indicated by the log, with notes on the weather and incidents of the voyage; the contents of the log board.
Log book, or Logbook (Naut.), A book in which a log[4] is recorded.
Log cabin, Log house, A cabin or house made of logs.
Log canoe, A canoe made by shaping and hollowing out a single log; a dugout canoe.
Log glass (Naut.), A small sandglass used to time the running out of the log line.
Log line (Naut.), A line or cord about a hundred and fifty fathoms long, fastened to the log-chip. See Note under 2d Log, n., 2.
Log perch (Zool.), An ethiostomoid fish, or darter ({Percina caprodes); -- called also hogfish and rockfish
Log reel (Naut.), The reel on which the log line is wound.
Log slate. (Naut.) See Log board (above).
Rough log (Naut.), A first draught of a record of the cruise or voyage.
Smooth log (Naut.), A clean copy of the rough log. In the case of naval vessels this copy is forwarded to the proper officer of the government.
To heave the log (Naut.), To cast the log-chip into the water; also, the whole process of ascertaining a vessel's speed by the log.
Rockfish
(n.)
(Zool.) Any one of several
Rockfish (n.) The striped bass. See Bass.
Rockfish (n.) Any one of several
species of
Rockfish (n.) An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.
Note: The term is locally applied to various other fishes.
Rockfish (n.) The lean flesh of any of various valuable market fish caught among rocks.
Rockfish (n.) Marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America.
Rockfish (n.) Marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone [syn: striped bass, striper, Roccus saxatilis, rockfish].
Rockfish, NC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in North Carolina
Population (2000): 2353
Housing Units (2000): 893
Land area (2000): 5.007130 sq. miles (12.968406 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003287 sq. miles (0.008513 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.010417 sq. miles (12.976919 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57200
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 34.991167 N, 79.066654 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Rockfish, NC
Rockfish
Rockiness (n.) The state or quality of being rocky.
Rockiness (n.) The quality of abounding in rocks and stones; "due to the rockiness of the land it was quickly dry even after a heavy rain".
Rocking (a.) Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking.
Rocking-chair (n.) A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.
Rocking-horse (n.) The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.
Rocking-stone (n.) A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force.
Rockless (a.) Being without rocks.
Rockling (n.) Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels.
Rockrose (n.) A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European H. vulgare and the American frostweed, H. Canadense.
Rock shaft () (Mach.) A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.
Rock staff (v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.
Rocksucker (n.) A lamprey.
Rockweed (n.) Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus.
Rockwood (n.) Ligniform asbestus; also, fossil wood.
Rockwork (n.) Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
Rockwork (n.) A rockery.
Rocky (a.) Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.
Rocky (a.) Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield.
Rocky (a.) Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.
Rocoa (n.) The orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto.
Rococo (n.) A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
Rococo (a.) Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.
Rod (n.) A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes). Specifically:
Rod (n.) An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son. -- Prov. xiii. 24.
Rod (n.) A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression. "The rod, and bird of peace." -- Shak.
Rod (n.) A support for a fishing line; a fish pole. -- Gay.
Rod (n.) (Mach. & Structure) A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar.
Rod (n.) An instrument for measuring.
Rod (n.) A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
Black rod. See in the Vocabulary.
Rods and cones (Anat.), The elongated cells or elements of the sensory layer of the retina, some of which are cylindrical, others somewhat conical.
Rod (n.) A long thin implement made of metal or wood.
Rod (n.) Any rod-shaped bacterium.
Rod (n.) A linear measure of 16.5 feet [syn: perch, rod, pole].
Rod (n.) A square rod of land [syn: perch, rod, pole].
Rod (n.) A visual receptor cell that is sensitive to dim light [syn: rod, rod cell, retinal rod].
Rod (n.) A gangster's pistol [syn: gat, rod].
ROD, () Rewritable Optical Disk (OD).
ROD. () A measure sixteen feet and a half long; a perch.
Roddy (a.) Full of rods or twigs.
Roddy (a.) Ruddy. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Rode (n.) Redness; complexion. [Obs.] "His rode was red." -- Chaucer.
Rode () imp. of Ride.
Rode (n.) See Rood, the cross. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Rodent (v. t.) Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
Rodent (v. t.) Gnawing.
Rodent (v. t.) Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.
Rodent (n.) One of the Rodentia.
Rodentia (a.) An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.
Rodeo (n.) A round-up. See Round-up.
Rodge (n.) (Zool.) The gadwall. [Prov. Eng.]
Rodomel (n.) Juice of roses mixed with honey. -- Simmonds.
Rodomont (n.) A vain or blustering boaster; a braggart; a braggadocio. -- Sir T. Herbert.
Rodomont (a.) Bragging; vainly boasting.
Rodomontade (v. i.) 大言不慚 To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.
Rodomontade (n.) 大話；吹牛Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.
I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible. -- Dryden.
Rodomontade (n.) Vain and empty boasting [syn: braggadocio, bluster, rodomontade, rhodomontade].
Rodomontade (n.) Vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.
Rodomontade (a.) 吹牛的 Bragging.
Rodomontade (v. i.) (rod·o·mon·tad·ed, rod·o·mon·tad·ing.) To boast; brag; talk big.
Rodomontadist (n.) One who boasts.
Rodomontado (n.) Rodomontade.
Rodomontador (n.) A rodomontadist.
Rodsmen (n. pl. ) of Rodsman.
Rodsman (n.) One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party. -- G. W. Cable.
Rody (a.) Ruddy. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Roe (n.) (Zool.) The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male.
Roe (n.) A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
Roe (n.) (Zool.) A roebuck. See Roebuck.
Roe (n.) The female of any species of deer.
Roe (n.) Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture [syn: roe, hard roe].
Roe (n.) Eggs of female fish.
Roe (n.) The egg mass or spawn of certain crustaceans such as the Lobster.
Roe (n.) The eggs or egg-laden ovary of a fish.
Roe, () (Heb. tsebi), properly the gazelle (Arab. ghazal), permitted for food (Deut. 14:5; comp. Deut. 12:15, 22; 15:22; 1 Kings 4:23), noted for its swiftness and beauty and grace of form (2 Sam. 2:18; 1 Chr. 12:8; Cant. 2:9; 7:3; 8:14).
The gazelle (Gazella dorcas) is found in great numbers in Palestine. "Among the gray hills of Galilee it is still 'the roe upon the mountains of Bether,' and I have seen a little troop of gazelles feeding on the Mount of Olives close to Jerusalem itself" (Tristram).
The Hebrew word ('ayyalah) in Prov. 5: 19 thus rendered (R.V., "doe"), is properly the "wild she-goat," the mountain goat, the ibex. (See 1 Sam. 24:2; Ps. 104:18; Job 39:1.)
Roe, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 124
Housing Units (2000): 56
Land area (2000): 0.194814 sq. miles (0.504567 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.194814 sq. miles (0.504567 sq. km)
FIPS code: 60380
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 34.630946 N, 91.385853 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72134
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Roe, AR
Roe
Roebuck (n.) (Zool.) A small European and Asiatic deer ({Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.
Roebuck (n.) Male roe deer.
Roebuck, SC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in South Carolina
Population (2000): 1725
Housing Units (2000): 783
Land area (2000): 4.275658 sq. miles (11.073903 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.275658 sq. miles (11.073903 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61720
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 34.884195 N, 81.960597 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29376
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Roebuck, SC
Roebuck
Roed (a.) (Zool.) Filled with roe.
Roedeer (n.) (Zool.) The roebuck.
Roestone (n.) (Min.) Same as Oolite.
Rogation (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree.
Rogation (n.) (Eccl.) Litany; supplication.
He perfecteth the rogations or litanies before in use. -- Hooker.
Rogation days (Eccl.), The three days which immediately precede Ascension Day; -- so called as being days on which the people, walking in procession, sang litanies of special supplication.
Rogation flower (Bot.), A European species of milkwort ({Polygala vulgaris); -- so called from its former use for garlands in Rogation week. -- Dr. Prior.
Rogation week, The second week before Whitsunday, in which the Rogation days occur.
Rogation (n.) A solemn supplication ceremony prescribed by the church.
Rogatory (a.) Seeking information; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission. -- Woolsey.
Rogatory, Letters. () A kind of commission from a judge authorizing and requesting a judge of another jurisdiction to examine a witness. Vide Letters Rogatory.
Rogue (n.) (Eng.Law) A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Note: The phrase rogues and vagabonds is applied to a large class of wandering, disorderly, or dissolute persons.
They were formerly punished by being whipped and having the gristle of the right ear bored with a hot iron.
Rogue (n.) A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. -- Pope.
Rogue (n.) One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment.
Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! -- Shak.
Rogue (n.) An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.
Rogue (n.) (Hort.) A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.
Rogues' gallery, A collection of portraits of rogues or criminals, for the use of the police authorities.
Rogue's march, Derisive music performed in driving away a person under popular indignation or official sentence, as when a soldier is drummed out of a regiment.
Rogue's yarn, Yarn of a different twist and color from the rest, inserted into the cordage of the British navy, to identify it if stolen, or for the purpose of tracing the maker in case of defect. Different makers are required to use yarns of different colors.
Rogue (v. i.) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Rogue (v. t.) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry. [Obs.] -- Cudworth.
Rogue (v. t.) (Hort.) To destroy
(plants that do not come up to a required standard).
Rogue (n.) A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn:
rogue, knave, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, varlet].
Rogue [Unix] (n.) A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently ported to other Unix systems. The original BSD curses(3) screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold primarily to support games, and the development of rogue(6) popularized its use; it has since become one of Unix's most important and heavily used application libraries. Nethack, Omega, Larn, Angband, and an entire subgenre of computer dungeon games (all known as ?roguelikes?) all took off from the inspiration provided by rogue(6); the popular Windows game Diablo, though graphics-intensive, has very similar play logic. See also nethack, moria, Angband.
Rogue [Usenet] (a.) An ISP which permits net abuse (usually in the form of {spamming) by its customers, or which itself engages in such activities. Rogue ISPs are sometimes subject to IDPs or UDPs. Sometimes deliberately misspelled as ?rouge?.
Rogue [Unix] A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently ported to other Unix systems. The original BSD "curses(3)" screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold to support "rogue(6)" and has since become one of Unix's most important and heavily used application libraries. Nethack, Omega, Larn, and an entire subgenre of computer dungeon games all took off from the inspiration provided by "rogue(6)". See also nethack. [{Jargon File]
Rogue. () A French word, which in that language signifies proud, arrogant. In some of the ancient English statutes it means an idle, sturdy beggar, which is its meaning in law. Rogues are usually punished as vagrants. Although the word rogue is a word of reproach, yet to charge one as a rogue is not actionable. 5 Binn. 219. See 2 Dev. 162 Hardin, 529.
Roguery (n.) The life of a vargant.
Roguery (n.) The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices.
Roguery (n.) Arch tricks; mischievousness.
Rogueship (n.) The quality or state of being a rogue.
Roguish (a.) Vagrant. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
His roguish madness Allows itself to anything. -- Shak.
Roguish (a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, a rogue; knavish.
Roguish (a.) Pleasantly mischievous; waggish; arch.
Roguy (a.) Roguish. [Obs.] -- L'Estrange.