Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 78
Rosette (n.) (Zool.) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand.
Rosette (n.) (Zool.) A flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard.
Rosette (n.) An ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor.
Rosette (n.) Rhizoctinia disease of potatoes [syn: little potato, rosette, russet scab, stem canker].
Rosette (n.) A cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground).
Rosette (n.) Circular window filled with tracery [syn: rose window, rosette].
Rosette, () A concurrent object-oriented language from MCC. (1997-11-26)
Rose water () Water tinctured with roses by distillation.
Rose water (n.) Perfume consisting of water scented with oil of roses.
Rose-water (a.) Having the odor of rose water; hence, affectedly nice or delicate; sentimental. "Rose-water philanthropy." -- Carlyle.
Rosewood (n.) 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
African rosewood, The wood of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus erinaceus.
Jamaica rosewood, The wood of two West Indian trees ({Amyris balsamifera, and Linocieria ligustrina).
New South Wales rosewood, The wood of Trichilia glandulosa, a tree related to the margosa.
Rosewood (n.) Hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork.
Rosewood (n.) Any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black [syn: rosewood, rosewood tree].
Roseworm (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Rosewort (n.) (Bot.) Roseroot.
Rosewort (n.) (Bot.) Any plant nearly related to the rose. -- Lindley.
Rosicrucian (n.) One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years.
Note: The Rosicrucians also called brothers of the Rosy Cross, Rosy-cross Knights, Rosy-cross philosophers, etc. Among other pretensions, they claimed to be able to transmute metals, to prolong life, to know what is passing in distant places, and to discover the most hidden things by the application of the Cabala and science of numbers.
Rosicrucian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.
Rosicrucian (a.) Of or relating to the Rosicrucians.
Rosicrucian (n.) A member of any of various organizations that subsequently derived from the 17th-century society.
Rosicrucian (n.) A member of a secret 17th-century society of philosophers and scholars versed in mystical and metaphysical and alchemical lore.
Rosied (a.) Decorated with roses, or with the color of roses.
Rosier (n.) A rosebush; roses, collectively. [Obs.]
Crowned with a garland of sweet rosier. -- Spenser.
Rosily (adv.) In a rosy manner. -- M. Arnold.
Rosin (n.) The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony.
Rosin oil, An oil obtained from the resin of the pine tree, -- used by painters and for lubricating machinery, etc.
Rosin (v. t.) To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.
Or with the rosined bow torment the string. -- Gay.
Rosin (n.) Any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules [syn: resin, rosin].
Rosin (v.) Rub rosin onto; "rosin the violin bow."
Rosin, () Found only in Authorized Version, margin, Ezek. 27:17, Heb. tsori, uniformly rendered elsewhere "balm" (q.v.), as here in the text. The Vulgate has resinam, rendered "rosin" in the Douay Version. As used, however, by Jerome, the Lat. resina denotes some odoriferous gum or oil.
Rosiness (n.) The quality of being rosy.
Rosiness (n.) A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health [syn: bloom, blush, flush, rosiness].
Rosiness (n.) A healthy reddish complexion [syn: ruddiness, rosiness].
Rosiness (n.) A dusty pink color [syn: rose, rosiness].
Rosinweed (n.) (Bot.) The compass plant. See under Compass.
Rosinweed (n.) (Bot.) A name given
in
Rosinweed (n.) North American perennial having a resinous odor and yellow flowers [syn: rosinweed, Silphium laciniatum].
Rosinweed (n.) Any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock [syn: gumweed, gum plant, tarweed, rosinweed].
Rosiny (a.) Like rosin, or having its qualities.
Rosland (n.) Heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land. [prov. Eng.]
Rosmarine (n.) Dew from the sea; sea dew. [Obs.]
That purer brine And wholesome dew called rosmarine. -- B. Jonson.
Rosmarine (n.) Rosemary. [Obs.] --Spenser. "Biting on anise seed and rosmarine." -- Bp. Hall.
Rosmarine (n.) A fabulous sea animal which was reported to climb by means of its teeth to the tops of rocks to feed upon the dew.
And greedly rosmarines with visages deforme. -- Spenser.
Rosolic (a.) (Chem.) 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.
Ross (n.) The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
Ross (v. t.) To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark. [Local, U.S.]
Ross (n.) Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856) [syn: Ross, John Ross, Sir John Ross]
Ross (n.) British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862) [syn: Ross, James Clark Ross, Sir James Clark Ross].
Ross (n.) British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932) [syn: Ross, Sir Ronald Ross].
Ross (n.) A politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977) [syn: Ross, Nellie Ross, Nellie Tayloe Ross].
Ross (n.) American seamstress said to have made the first American flag at the request of George Washington (1752-1836) [syn: Ross, Betsy Ross, Betsy Griscom Ross].
Ross -- U.S. County in Ohio
Population (2000): 73345
Housing Units (2000): 29461
Land area (2000): 688.414519 sq. miles (1782.985342 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.546070 sq. miles (11.774268 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 692.960589 sq. miles (1794.759610 sq. km)
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.341461 N, 83.027332 W
Headwords:
Ross
Ross, OH
Ross County
Ross County, OH
Ross, CA -- U.S. town in California
Population (2000): 2329
Housing Units (2000): 805
Land area (2000): 1.593517 sq. miles (4.127191 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.593517 sq. miles (4.127191 sq. km)
FIPS code: 62980
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.962673 N, 122.558090 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ross, CA
Ross
Ross, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 48
Housing Units (2000): 29
Land area (2000): 0.282962 sq. miles (0.732867 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.282962 sq. miles (0.732867 sq. km)
FIPS code: 68540
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 48.313105 N, 102.543263 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58776
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ross, ND
Ross
Ross, OH -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Ohio
Population (2000): 1971
Housing Units (2000): 753
Land area (2000): 1.695112 sq. miles (4.390320 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.021339 sq. miles (0.055268 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.716451 sq. miles (4.445588 sq. km)
FIPS code: 68602
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.313606 N, 84.644899 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ross, OH
Ross
Ross, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 228
Housing Units (2000): 93
Land area (2000): 1.743692 sq. miles (4.516142 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.743692 sq. miles (4.516142 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63380
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.726723 N, 97.106170 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ross, TX
Ross
Rossel (n.) Light land; rosland.
Rossel current () A portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westward from the Fiji Islands to New Guinea.
Rosselly (a.) Loose; light.
Rost (n.) See Roust.
Rostel (n.) same as Rostellum.
Rostellar (a.) Pertaining to a rostellum.
Rostellate (a.) Having a rostellum, or small beak; terminating in a beak.
Rostelliform (a.) Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak.
Rostella (n. pl. ) of Rostellum.
Rostellum (n.) 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.
Roster (n.) A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.
Rostra (n. pl.) See Rostrum, 2.
Rostral (a.) 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.
Rostrate (a.) Alt. of Rostrated.
Rostrated (a.) Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
Rostrated (a.) Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys.
Rostrifera (n. pl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.
Rostriform (a.) Having the form of a beak.
Rostrula (n. pl. ) of Rostrulum.
Rostrulum (n.) A little rostrum, or beak, as of an insect.
Rostra (n. pl. ) of Rostrum.
Rostrums (n. pl. ) of Rostrum.
Rostrum (n.) The beak or head of a ship.
Rostrum (n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
Rostrum (n.) Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
Rostrum (n.) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
Rostrum (n.) The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
Rostrum (n.) The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
Rostrum (n.) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
Rostrum (n.) Same as Rostellum.
Rostrum (n.) The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
Rostrum (n.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
Rosulate (a.) Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.
Rosy (a.) Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.
A smile that glowed Celestial rosy-red, love's proper hue. -- Milton.
While blooming youth and gay delight Sit thy rosy cheeks confessed. -- Prior.
Note: Rosy is sometimes used in the formation of self?xplaining compounde; as, rosy-bosomed, rosy-colored, rosy-crowned, rosy-fingered, rosy-tinted.
Rosy cross. See the Note under Rosicrucian, n.
Rotted (imp. & p. p.) of Rot.
Rotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rot.
Rot (v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.
Rot (v. i.) Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
Rot (v. t.) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
Rot (v. t.) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
Rot (n.) Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
Rot (n.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
Rot (n.) A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.
Rota (n.) An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.
Rota (n.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.
Rota (n.) A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.
Rotacism (n.) See Rhotacism.
Rotal (a.) Relating to wheels or to rotary motion; rotary.
Rotalite (n.) Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under Rhizopod.
Rotary (a.) Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion.
Rotascope (n.) Same as Gyroscope, 1.
Rotate (a.) Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
Rotated (imp. & p. p.) of Rotate.
Rotating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rotate.
Rotate (v. i.) To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
Rotate (v. i.) To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
Rotate (v. i.) To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
Rotate (v. i.) To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
Rotated (a.) Turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate.
Rotation (n.) The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution.
Rotation (n.) Any return or succesion in a series.
Rotation (a.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
Rotative (a.) turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational.
Rotator (n.) that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.
Rotator (n.) A revolving reverberatory furnace.
Rotatoria (n. pl.) Same as Rotifera.
Rotatory (a.) Turning as on an axis; rotary.
Rotatory (a.) Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles.
Rotatory (a.) Producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, the rotatory power of bodies on light. See the Note under polarization.
Rotatory (n.) A rotifer.
Rotche (n.) 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.
Rotchet (n.) The European red gurnard (Trigla pini).
Rote (n.) A root.
Rote (n.) A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.