Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 81
Rounding (n.) (Naut.) Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.
Rounding (n.) (Phonetics) Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 11.
Rounding (n.) (Mathematics) A miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals; "the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding"; "taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small" [syn: rounding, rounding error].
Roundish (a.) Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
Roundish (a.) Somewhat round in appearance or form.
Roundlet (n.) A little circle. -- J. Gregory.
Roundly (adv.) In a round form or manner.
Roundly (adv.) Openly; boldly; peremptorily; plumply.
He affirms everything roundly. -- Addison.
Roundly (adv.) Briskly; with speed. -- locke.
Two of the outlaws walked roundly forward. -- Sir W. Scott.
Roundly (adv.) Completely; vigorously; in earnest. -- Shak.
Roundly (adv.) Without regard to detail; in gross; comprehensively; generally; as, to give numbers roundly.
In speaking roundly of this period. -- H. Morley.
Roundly (adv.) In a round manner; "she was roundly slim."
Roundly (adv.) In a blunt direct manner; "he spoke bluntly"; "he stated his opinion flat-out"; "he was criticized roundly" [syn: bluffly, bluntly, brusquely, flat out, roundly].
Roundness (n.) 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.
Roundness (n.) Fullness; smoothness of flow; as, the roundness of a period; the roundness of a note; roundness of tone.
Roundness (n.) Openess; plainess; boldness; positiveness; as, the roundness of an assertion.
Syn: Circularity; sphericity; globosity; globularity; globularness; orbicularness; cylindricity; fullness; plumpness; rotundity.
Roundness (n.) The fullness of a tone of voice; "there is a musky roundness to his wordiness" [syn: roundness, rotundity].
Roundness (n.) The quality of being round numbers; "he gave us the results in round numbers, but their roundness didn't affect the point he was making."
Roundness (n.) The property possessed by a line or surface that is curved and not angular [ant: angularity].
Roundness (n.) The bodily property of being well rounded [syn: plumpness, embonpoint, roundness].
Roundridge (v. t.) (Agric.) To form into round ridges by plowing. -- B. Edwards. Round; robin
Round-shouldered (a.) Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
Round-shouldered (a.) Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman" [syn: hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping, crooked].
Roundsmen (n. pl. ) of Roundsman.
Roundsman (n.) A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
Roundsman (n.) A workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on).
Roundtop (n.) (Naut.) A top; a platform at a masthead; -- so called because formerly round in shape.
Round-up (n.) The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. [Western U.S.]
Round-up (n.) A rounding up, or upward curvature or convexity, as in the deck of a vessel.
Round-up (n.) A gathering in of scattered persons or things; as, a round-up of criminals. [Colloq., U. S.]
Roundup, MT -- U.S. city in Montana
Population (2000): 1931
Housing Units (2000): 978
Land area (2000): 1.343016 sq. miles (3.478396 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.001627 sq. miles (0.004214 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.344643 sq. miles (3.482610 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64525
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 46.448401 N, 108.542676 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 59072
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Roundup, MT
Roundup
Roundure (n.) Roundness; a round or circle. [Obs.] -- Shak
Roundworm (n.) (Zool.) A nematoid worm.
Roundworm (n.) Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches [syn: tinea, ringworm, roundworm].
Roundworm (n.) Unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic [syn: nematode, nematode worm, roundworm].
Roundy (a.) Round. [Obs.] -- Sir P. Sidney.
Roup (v. i. & t.) To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Roup (n.) An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
To roup, That is, the sale of his crops, was over. -- J. C. Shairp.
Roup (n.) A disease in poultry. See Pip.
Rousant (a.) (her.) Rising; -- applied to a bird in the attitude of rising; also, sometmes, to a bird in profile with wings addorsed.
Rouse (v. i. & t.) (Naut.) To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
Rouse (n.) A bumper in honor of a toast or health. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Rouse (n.) A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn. -- Tennyson.
Roused (imp. & p. p.) of Rouse.
Rousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rouse.
Rouse (v. t.) To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes. -- Spenser.
Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. -- Pope.
Rouse (v. t.) To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
Rouse (v. t.) To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.
To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom. -- Atterbury.
Rouse (v. t.) To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea. -- Milton.
Rouse (v. t.) To raise; to make erect. [Obs.] -- Spenser. Shak.
Rouse (v. i.) To get or start up; to rise. [Obs.]
Night's black agents to their preys do rouse. -- Shak.
Rouse (v. i.) To awake from sleep or repose.
Morpheus rouses from his bed. -- Pope.
Rouse (v. i.) To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
Rouse (v.) Become active; "He finally bestirred himself" [syn: bestir, rouse].
Rouse (v.) Force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M." [syn: rout out, drive out, force out, rouse].
Rouse (v.) Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" [syn: agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up] [ant: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize].
Rouse (v.) Cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse] [ant: cause to sleep].
Rouser (n.) One who, or that which, rouses.
Rouser (n.) Something very exciting or great. [Colloq.]
Rouser (n.) (Brewing) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
Rouser (n.) Someone who rouses others from sleep [syn: waker, rouser, arouser].
Rousing (a.) Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.
I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me. -- Milton.
Rousing (a.) Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie. [Colloq.]
Rousing (a.) Capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; "a rousing sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues" [syn: rousing, stirring].
Rousing (a.) Rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading; "tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation."
Rousing (n.) The act of arousing; "the purpose of art is the arousal of emotions" [syn: arousal, rousing].
Rousingly (adv.) In a rousing manner.
Roussette (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Roussette (n.) (Zool.) Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; -- called also dogfish. See Dogfish.
Roust (v. t.) To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
Roust (n.) A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. [Written also rost, and roost.] -- Jamieson.
Roustabout (n.) 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. [Western U.S.]
Roustabout (n.) A member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor [syn: deckhand, roustabout].
Rout (v. i.) To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obs. or Scot.] -- Chaucer.
Rout (n.) A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult. -- Shak.
This new book the whole world makes such a rout about. -- Sterne.
"My child, it is not well," I said, "Among the graves to shout; To laugh and play among the dead, And make this noisy rout." -- Trench.
Rout (v. t.) To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
To rout out (a) To turn up to view, as if by rooting; to discover; to find.
To rout out (b) To turn out by force or compulsion; as, to rout people out of bed. [Colloq.]
Rout (v. i.) To search or root in the ground, as a swine. -- Edwards.
Rout (n.) A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. [Obs.] "A route of ratones [rats]." -- Piers Plowman. "A great solemn route." -- Chaucer.
And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. -- Chaucer.
A rout of people there assembled were. -- Spenser.
Rout (n.) A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
the endless routs of wretched thralls. -- Spenser.
The ringleader and head of all this rout. -- Shak.
Nor do I name of men the common rout. -- Milton.
Rout (n.) The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.
Thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. -- Daniel.
To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. -- pope.
Rout (n.) (Law) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof. -- Wharton.
Rout (n.) A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. "At routs and dances." -- Landor.
To put to rout, To defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight.
Routed (imp. & p. p.) of Rout.
Routing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rout.
Rout (v. t.) To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.
That party
. . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole
army, that they fied. -- Clarendon.
Syn: To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow.
Rout (v. i.) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. [obs.] -- Bacon.
In all that land no Christian[s] durste route. -- Chaucer.
Rout (n.) A disorderly crowd of people [syn: mob, rabble, rout].
Rout (n.) An overwhelming defeat.
Rout (v.) Cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves" [syn: rout, rout out, expel].
Rout (v.) Dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn: rout, root, rootle].
Rout (v.) Make a groove in [syn: rout, gouge].
Rout (v.) Defeat disastrously [syn: spread-eagle, spreadeagle, rout].
Rout, () crim. law. A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with an intention to do a thing, which, if executed, would have made them rioters, and actually making a motion towards the execution of their purpose.
Rout, () It generally agrees in all particulars with a riot, except only in this, that it may be a complete offence without the execution of the intended enterprise. Hawk. c. 65, s. 14; 1 Russ. on Cr. 253; 4 Bl. Com. 140; Vin. Abr. Riots, &c., A 2 Com. Dig. Forcible Entry, D 9.
Route (n.) The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.
Wide through the furzy field their route they take. -- Gay.
Route (n.) An established line of travel or access [syn: path, route, itinerary].
Route (n.) An open way (generally public) for travel or transportation [syn: road, route].
Route (v.) Send documents or materials to appropriate destinations.
Route (v.) Send via a specific route.
Route (v.) Divert in a specified direction; "divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders."
Route, () The sequence of hosts, routers, bridges, gateways, and other devices that network traffic takes, or could take, from its source to its destination. As a verb, to determine the link down which to send a packet, that will minimise its total journey time according to some routeing algorithm.
You can find the route from your computer to another using the program traceroute on Unix or tracert on Microsoft Windows. (2001-05-26)
Router (n.) (Carp.) A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
Router (n.) (Carp.) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
Router (n.) (Mach.) A machine with a rapidly revolving vertical spindle and cutter for scooping out the surface of wood or metal, as between and around the engraved parts of an electrotype.
Router (n.) A worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery.
Router (n.) (Computer science) A device that forwards data packets between computer networks.
Router (n.) A power tool with a shaped cutter; used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
Router, () A device which forwards packets between networks. The forwarding decision is based on network layer information and routing tables, often constructed by routing protocols.
Unix manual page: route (8).
See also bridge, gateway, Exterior Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol, flapping router. (1999-08-24)
Routhe (n.) Ruth; sorrow. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Routinary (a.) Involving, or pertaining to, routine; ordinary; customary. [R.] -- Emerson.
Routine (n.) A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.
Routine (n.) Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit.
Routine (a.) Found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute" -- Anita Diamant [syn: everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday].
Routine (n.) An unvarying or habitual method or procedure [syn: routine, modus operandi].
Routine (n.) A short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program; "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he ever did" [syn: act, routine, number, turn, bit].
Routine (n.) A set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program [syn: routine, subroutine, subprogram, procedure, function].
Routinism (n.) The practice of doing things with undiscriminating, mechanical regularity.
Routinist (n.) One who habituated to a routine.
Routish (a.) Uproarious; riotous. [Obs.]
Routously (adv.) (Law) With that violation of law called a rout. See 5th Rout, 4.
Routously, () pleadings. A technical word properly used in indictments for a rout as descriptive of the offence. 2 Salk. 593.
Roux (n.) (Cookery) A thickening, made of flour, for soups and gravies.
Roux (n.) A mixture of fat and flour heated and used as a basis for sauces.
Reeve (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Rove (r[=o]v); p. pr. & vb. n. Reeving.] [Cf. D. reven. See Reef, n. & v. t.] (Naut.) To pass, as the end of a rope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.
Rove (v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture.
Rove (v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool. -- Jamieson.
Rove (v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
Rove (n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
Rove (n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
Roved (imp. & p. p.) of Rove.
Roving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rove.
Rove (v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. [Obs.] --Hakluyt.
Rove (v. i.) Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.
For who has power to walk has power to rove. -- Arbuthnot.
Rove (v. i.) (Archery) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range) Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart At that good knight so cunningly didst rove. -- Spenser.
Syn: To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.
Rove (v. t.) To wander over or through.
Roving the field, I chanced A goodly tree far distant to behold. -- milton.
Rove (v. t.) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
Rove (n.) The act of wandering; a ramble.
In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt. -- Young.
Rove beetle (Zool.), Any one of numerous species of beetles of the family Staphylinidae, having short elytra beneath which the wings are folded transversely. They are rapid runners, and seldom fly.
Rove (v.) Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond].
Rover (n.) One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.
Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships. -- Holland.
Rover (n.) One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.
Rover (n.) Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.
Rover (n.) (Croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
Rover (n.) (Archery) Casual marks at uncertain distances. -- Encyc. Brit.
Rover (n.) (Archery) A sort
of arrow. [Obs.]
All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts. -- B. Jonson.
At rovers, At casual marks; hence, at random; as, shooting at rovers. See def. 5
(a) above. -- Addison.
Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Rover (n.) Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life [syn: wanderer, roamer, rover, bird of passage].
Rover (n.) An adult member of the Boy Scouts movement [syn: rover, scouter].
Roving (n.) The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.
Roving (n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.
Roving frame, Roving machine, A machine for drawing and twisting roves and twisting roves and winding them on bobbin for the spinning machine.
Roving (n.) The act of one who roves or wanders.
Roving (a.) Migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes" [syn: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering].
Roving (n.) Travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him" [syn: wandering, roving, vagabondage].
Rovingly (adv.) In a wandering manner.
Rovingness (n.) The state of roving.
Row (a. & adv.) Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] "Lock he never so row." -- Chaucer.
Row (n.) A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.] -- Byron.