Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 77
Rope (v. t.) To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.
Rope (v. t.) To lasso (a steer, horse). [Colloq. U.S.]
Rope (v. t.) To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters. [Slang, U.S.]
Rope (v. t.) To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing. [Racing Slang, Eng.]
Rope (n.) A strong line.
Rope (n.) Street names for flunitrazepan [syn: R-2, Mexican valium, rophy, rope, roofy, roach, forget me drug, circle].
Rope (v.) Catch with a lasso; "rope cows" [syn: lasso, rope].
Rope (v.) Fasten with a rope; "rope the bag securely" [syn: rope, leash].
Rope (n.) An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal.
It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long. It has been largely superseded by a more complex electrical device worn upon another part of the person; and this is rapidly giving place to an apparatus known as the preachment.
Ropeband (n.) A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar.
Ropedancer (n.) One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height.
Roper (n.) A maker of ropes.
Roper (n.) One who ropes goods; a packer.
Roper (n.) One fit to be hanged.
Ropery (n.) A place where ropes are made.
Ropery (n.) Tricks deserving the halter; roguery.
Rope's-end (v. t.) To punish with a rope's end.
Ropewalk (a.) A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.
Ropewalker (n.) A ropedancer.
Rope-yarn (n.) the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.
Ropily (adv.) In a ropy manner; in a viscous or glutinous manner.
Ropiness (n.) Quality of being ropy; viscosity.
Ropish (a.) Somewhat ropy.
Ropy (a.) capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.
Roquelaure (n.) A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century.
Roquet (v. t.) To hit, as another's ball, with one's own ball.
Roquet (v. i.) To hit another's ball with one's own.
Roral (a.) Of or pertaining to dew; consisting of dew; dewy.
Roration (n.) A falling of dew.
Roric (a.) Of or pertaining to dew; resembling dew; dewy.
Rorid (a.) Dewy; bedewed.
Roriferous (a.) generating or producing dew.
Rorifluent (a.) Flowing with dew.
Rorqual (n.) 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.
Rorschach (Comics) (n.) 變臉羅夏 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Rorschach (born Walter Joseph Kovacs) Is a fictional character and an antihero of the acclaimed 1986 graphic novel miniseries Watchmen, published by DC Comics. Rorschach was created by writer Alan Moore with artist Dave Gibbons, but as with most of the main characters in the series, he was an analogue for a Charlton Comics character, in this case Steve Ditko's the Question and Mr. A.
While the series has an ensemble cast, some consider Rorschach to be the protagonist as he drives most of the plot forward. [1] [2] [3] In the beginning of the story, he is introduced as the only remaining active masked vigilante not employed by the government. A ruthless crime-fighter, his beliefs in moral absolutism—good and evil with no shades of grey—have driven him to seek to punish evil at all costs. Rorschach's mask displays a constantly morphing inkblot based on the ambiguous designs used in Rorschach inkblot tests, with the mask's black and white coloring consistent with Rorschach's sense and view of morality.
Reception towards the character is positive and he has been referenced several times in other comic book stories and has appeared in other forms of media. Jackie Earle Haley portrays Rorschach in the 2009 film adaptation directed by Zack Snyder, and also voices him in the video games series. Rorschach later appears in the Before Watchmen comic book prequel, with his own individual issue miniseries.
Rorulent (a.) Full of, or abounding in, dew.
Rorulent (a.) Having the surface appearing as if dusty, or covered with fine dew.
Rory (a.) Dewy.
Rosaceous (a.) 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.
Rosaceous (a.) Like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla.
Rosaceous (a.) Of a pure purpish pink color.
Rosacic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also lithic acid) found in certain red precipitates of urine. See Uric.
Rosalgar (n.) Realgar. [Obs.] -- chaucer.
Rosalia (n.) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.
Rosaniline (n.) 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.
Rosarian (n.) A cultivator of roses.
Rosaries (n. pl. ) of Rosary.
Rosary (n.) 玫瑰園 A bed of roses, or place where roses grow. "Thick rosaries of scented thorn." -- Tennyson.
Rosary (n.) (R. C. Ch.) （天主教的）玫瑰經；誦經用的念珠 A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted.
His idolized book, and the whole rosary of his prayers. -- Milton.
Note: A rosary consists of fifteen decades. Each decade contains ten Ave Marias marked by small beads, preceded by a Paternoster, marked by a larger bead, and concluded by a Gloria Patri. Five decades make a chaplet, a third part of the rosary. -- Bp. Fitzpatrick.
Rosary (n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.
Every day propound to yourself a rosary or chaplet of good works to present to God at night. -- Jer. Taylor.
Rosary (n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.
Rosary shell (Zool.), Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Monodonta. They are top-shaped, bright-colored and pearly.
Rosary (n.) A string of beads used in counting prayers (especially by Catholics) [syn: rosary, prayer beads].
Roscid (a.) Containing, or consisting of, dew; dewy.
Roscoelite (n.) A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.
Rose () imp. of {Rise}.
Rose (n.) A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemisphere.
Note: Roses are shrubs with pinnate leaves and usually prickly stems. The flowers are large, and in the wild state have five petals of a color varying from deep pink to white, or sometimes yellow. By cultivation and hybridizing the number of petals is greatly increased and the natural perfume enhanced. In this way many distinct classes of roses have been formed, as the Banksia, Baurbon, Boursalt, China, Noisette, hybrid perpetual, etc., with multitudes of varieties in nearly every class.
Rose (n.) A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe. -- Sha.
Rose (n.) (Arch.) A rose window. See {Rose window}, below.
Rose (n.) A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump.
Rose (n.) (Med.) The erysipelas. -- Dunglison.
Rose (n.) The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments.
Rose (n.) The color of a rose; rose-red; pink.
Rose (n.) A diamond. See {Rose diamond}, below.
{Cabbage rose}, {China rose}, etc. See under {Cabbage}, {China}, etc.
{Corn rose} (Bot.) See {Corn poppy}, Under {Corn}.
{Infantile rose} (Med.), A variety of roseola.
{Jamaica rose}. (Bot.) See Under {Jamaica}.
{Rose acacia} (Bot.), A low American leguminous shrub ({Robinia hispida}) with handsome clusters of rose-colored blossoms.
{Rose aniline}. (Chem.) Same as {Rosaniline}.
{Rose apple} (Bot.), The fruit of the tropical myrtaceous tree {Eugenia Jambos}. It is an edible berry an inch or more in diameter, and is said to have a very strong roselike perfume.
{Rose beetle}. (Zool.) (a) A small yellowish or buff longlegged beetle ({Macrodactylus subspinosus}), which eats the leaves of various plants, and is often very injurious to rosebushes, apple trees, grapevines, etc. Called also {rose bug}, and {rose chafer}.
{Rose beetle}. (Zool.) (b) The European chafer.
{Rose bug}. (Zool.) Same as {Rose beetle}, {Rose chafer}.
{Rose burner}, A kind of gas-burner producing a rose-shaped flame.
{Rose camphor} (Chem.), A solid odorless substance which separates from rose oil.
{Rose campion}. (Bot.) See under {Campion}.
{Rose catarrh} (Med.), Rose cold.
{Rose chafer}. (Zool.) (a) A common European beetle ({Cetonia aurata}) which is often very injurious to rosebushes; -- called also {rose beetle}, and {rose fly}.
{Rose chafer}. (Zool.) (b) The rose beetle
{Rose cold} (Med.), A variety of hay fever, sometimes attributed to the inhalation of the effluvia of roses. See {Hay fever}, under {Hay}.
{Rose color}, The color of a rose; pink; hence, a beautiful hue or appearance; fancied beauty, attractiveness, or promise.
{Rose de Pompadour}, {Rose du Barry}, Names succesively given to a delicate rose color used on S[`e]vres porcelain.
{Rose diamond}, A diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top. Cf. {Brilliant}, n.
{Rose ear}. See Under {Ear}.
{Rose elder} (Bot.), The Guelder-rose.
{Rose engine}, A machine, or an appendage to a turning lathe, by which a surface or wood, metal, etc., is engraved with a variety of curved lines. -- Craig.
{Rose family} (Bot.) The {Roseceae}. See {Rosaceous}.
{Rose fever} (Med.), Rose cold.
{Rose fly} (Zool.), A rose betle, or rose chafer.
{Rose gall} (Zool.), Any gall found on rosebushes. See {Bedeguar}.
{Rose knot}, A ribbon, or other pliade band plaited so as to resemble a rose; a rosette.
{Rose lake}, {Rose madder}, A rich tint prepared from lac and madder precipitated on an earthy basis. --Fairholt.
{Rose mallow}. (Bot.) (a) A name of several malvaceous plants of the genus {Hibiscus}, with large rose-colored flowers.
{Rose mallow}. (Bot.) (b) The hollyhock.
{Rose nail}, A nail with a convex, faceted head.
{Rose noble}, An ancient English gold coin, stamped with the figure of a rose, first struck in the reign of Edward III., and current at 6s. 8d. --Sir W. Scott.
{Rose of China}. (Bot.) See {China rose} (b), Under {China}.
{Rose of Jericho} (Bot.), A Syrian cruciferous plant ({Anastatica Hierochuntica}) which rolls up when dry, and expands again when moistened; -- called also {resurrection plant}.
{Rose of Sharon} (Bot.), An ornamental malvaceous shrub ({Hibiscus Syriacus}). In the Bible the name is used for some flower not yet identified, perhaps a Narcissus, or possibly the great lotus flower.
{Rose oil} (Chem.), The yellow essential oil extracted from various species of rose blossoms, and forming the chief part of attar of roses.
{Rose pink}, A pigment of a rose color, made by dyeing chalk or whiting with a decoction of Brazil wood and alum; also, the color of the pigment.
{Rose quartz} (Min.), A variety of quartz which is rose-red.
{Rose rash}. (Med.) Same as {Roseola}.
{Rose slug} (Zool.), The small green larva of a black sawfly ({Selandria rosae}). These larvae feed in groups on the parenchyma of the leaves of rosebushes, and are often abundant and very destructive.
{Rose window} (Arch.), A circular window filled with ornamental tracery. Called also {Catherine wheel}, and {marigold window}. Cf. {wheel window}, under {Wheel}.
{Summer rose} (Med.), A variety of roseola. See {Roseola}.
{Under the rose} [a translation of L. sub rosa], In secret; privately; in a manner that forbids disclosure; -- the rose being among the ancients the symbol of secrecy, and hung up at entertainments as a token that nothing there said was to be divulged.
{Wars of the Roses} (Eng. Hist.), Feuds between the Houses of York and Lancaster, the white rose being the badge of the House of York, and the red rose of the House of Lancaster.
Rose (v. t.) To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush. [Poetic] "A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty." -- Shak.
Rose (v. t.) To perfume, as with roses. [Poetic] -- Tennyson.
Rose (a.) Of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn" [syn: {rose}, {roseate}, {rosaceous}].
Rose (n.) Any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses [syn: {rose}, {rosebush}].
Rose (n.) Pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began [syn: {blush wine}, {pink wine}, {rose}, {rose wine}].
Rose (n.) A dusty pink color [syn: {rose}, {rosiness}].
ROSE, () [CAE] Real-time Object-based Simulation Environment.
ROSE, () Remote Operations Service Element (OSI, RPC)
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(ROSE) A sub-layer of protocol layer six ({presentation layer) in the OSI seven layer model which provides SASE for remote operations.
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Rose, () Many varieties of the rose proper are indigenous to Syria. The famed rose of Damascus is white, but there are also red and yellow roses. In Cant. 2:1 and Isa. 35:1 the Hebrew word _habatstseleth_ (found only in these passages), rendered "rose" (R.V. marg., "autumn crocus"), is supposed by some to mean the oleander, by others the sweet-scented narcissus (a native of Palestine), the tulip, or the daisy; but nothing definite can be affirmed regarding it.
The "rose of Sharon" is probably the cistus or rock-rose, several species of which abound in Palestine. "Mount Carmel especially abounds in the cistus, which in April covers some of the barer parts of the mountain with a glow not inferior to that of the Scottish heather." (See MYRRH [2].)
Roseal (a.) Resembling a rose in smell or color.
Roseate (a.) 薔薇色的，玫瑰色的；幸福的；樂觀的 Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.
Roseate (a.) Resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming; as, roseate beauty; her roseate lips.
{Roseate tern} (Zool.), An American and European tern ({Sterna Dougalli}) whose breast is roseate in the breeding season.
Roseate (a.) Of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn" [syn: {rose}, {roseate}, {rosaceous}].
Rosebay (n.) The oleander.
Rosebay (n.) Any shrub of the genus Rhododendron.
Rosebay (n.) An herb (Epilobium spicatum) with showy purple flowers, common in Europe and North America; -- called also great willow herb.
Rosebud (n.) The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open.
Rosebush (n.) The bush or shrub which bears roses.
Rose-colored (a.) Having the color of a pink rose; rose-pink; of a delicate pink color.
Rose-colored (a.) Uncommonly beautiful; hence, extravagantly fine or pleasing; alluring; as, rose-colored anticipations.
Rose-cut (a.) 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.
Rosedrop (n.) A lozenge having a rose flavor.
Rosedrop (n.) A kind of earring.
Rosedrop (n.) A ruddy eruption upon the nose caused by drinking ardent spirits; a grog blossom.
Rosefinch (n.) 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.
Rosefish (n.) 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.
Rosehead (n.) See Rose, n., 4.
Rosehead (n.) A many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head.
Roseine (n.) See Magenta.
Roselite (n.) A hydrous arsenite of cobalt, occuring in small red crystals, allied to erythrite.
Rosella (n.) 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.
Roselle (n.) 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.
Rosemaloes (n.) The liquid storax of the East Indian Liquidambar orientalis.
Rosemary (n.) 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.
Rosen (a.) Consisting of roses; rosy.
Rosenmuller's organ () The parovarium.
Roseo- () A prefix (also used adjectively) signifying rose-red; specifically used to designate certain rose-red compounds (called roseo-cobaltic compounds) of cobalt with ammonia. Cf. Luteo-.
Roseola (n.) 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.
Rose-pink (a.) Having a pink color like that of the rose, or like the pigment called rose pink. See Rose pink, under Rose.
Rose-pink (a.) Disposed to clothe everything with roseate hues; hence, sentimental.
Roser (n.) A rosier; a rosebush.
Rose-red (a.) Red as a rose; specifically (Zool.), of a pure purplish red color.
Rose-rial (n.) A name of several English gold coins struck in different reigns and having having different values; a rose noble.
Roseroot (n.) A fleshy-leaved herb (Rhodiola rosea); rosewort; -- so called because the roots have the odor of roses.
Rosery (n.) A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1.
Roset (n.) A red color used by painters.
Ro-setta stone () A stone found at Rosetta, in Egypt, bearing a trilingual inscription, by aid of which, with other inscriptions, a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt.
Rosetta wood () An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork.
Rosette (n.) An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.
Rosette (n.) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration.
Rosette (n.) A red color. See Roset.
Rosette (n.) A rose burner. See under Rose.