Webster's Dictionary 1913

4753

Rote (5)

Rote, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Roted; p. pr. & vb. n.Roting.] To learn or repeat by rote. Shak.

4754

Rote (6)

Rote, v. i. To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate. Z. Grey.

4755

Rotella

Ro‐tel″la (?), n. [NL., dim. of rota wheel; cf. LL. rotella a little whell.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small, polished, brightcolored gastropods of the genus Rotell...

4756

Rotgut

Rot″gut (?), n. 1. Bad small beer.2. Any bad spirituous liquor, especially when adulterated so as to be very deleterious.

4757

Rother

Roth″er (?), a. [AS. hryðer; cf. D. rund.] (Zoöl.) Bovine. — n. A bovine beast. Shak.Rother beasts, cattle of the bovine genus; black cattle. Golding. — Rother soil, the dung of...

4758

Rother (2)

Roth″er, n. [OE. See Rudder.] A rudder.Rother nail, a nail with a very full head, used for fastening the rudder irons of ships; — so called by shipwrights.

4759

Rotifer

Ro″ti‐fer (?; 277), n. [NL. see Rotifera.] (Zoöl.) One of the Rotifera. See Illust. in Appendix.

4760

Rotifera

‖Ro‐tif″e‐ra (?), n.; pl. [NL., from L. rota � wheel + ferre to bear.] (Zoöl.) An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, whic...

4761

Rotiform

Ro″ti‐form (?), a. [L. rota wheel + -form.] 1. Wheel-shaped; as, rotiform appendages.2. (Bot.) Same as Rotate.

4762

Rotograph

Ro″to‐graph (?), n.(Photography) A photograph printed by a process in which a strip or roll of sensitized paper is automatically fed over the negative so that a series of prints...

4763

Rotor

Ro″tor (?), n.(Elec.) The rotating part of a generator or motor.

4764

Rotta

Rot″ta (?), n.(Mus.) See Rota.

4765

Rotten

Rot″ten (?), a. [Icel. rotinn; akin to Sw. rutten, Dan. radden. See Rot.] Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence: (a) Offensive to the smell; fet...

4766

Rotula

‖Rot″u‐la (?), n. [L., a little wheel; cf. It. rotula.] (Anat.) The patella, or kneepan.

4767

Rotular

Rot″u‐lar (?), a. [L. rotula, dim. of rota wheel.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the rotula, or kneepan.

4768

Rotund

Ro‐tund″ (?), a. [L. rotundus. See Round, and cf. Rotunda.] 1. Round; circular; spherical.2. Hence, complete; entire.3. (Bot.) Orbicular, or nearly so. Gray.

4769

Rotund (2)

Ro‐tund″, n. A rotunda. Burke.

4770

Rotunda

Ro‐tun″da (?), n. [Cf. It. rotonda, F. rotonde; both fr. L. rotundus round. See Rotund, a.] (Arch.) A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and insid...

4771

Rotundate

Ro‐tund″ate (?), a. Rounded; especially, rounded at the end or ends, or at the corners.

4772

Rotundifolious

Ro‐tund′i‐fo″li‐ous (?), a. [L. rotundus round + folium a leaf.] (Bot.) Having round leaves.

4773

Rotundity

Ro‐tund″i‐ty (?), n. [L. rotunditas: cf. F. rotondité.] 1. The state or quality of being rotu�; roundness; sphericity; circularity.Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world! Sh...

4774

Rotundness

Ro‐tund″ness, n. Roundness; rotundity.

4775

Rotundo

Ro‐tun″do (?), n. See Rotunda.

4776

Roture

‖Ro′ture (?), n. 1. The condition of being a roturier.2. (Fr. & Canadian Law) A feudal tenure of lands by one who has no privileges of nobility, but is permitted to discharge al...

4777

Roturer

Ro‐tur″er (?), n. A roturier. Howell.

4778

Roturier

‖Ro′tu′rier″ (?), n. A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.

4779

Roty

Rot″y (?), v. t. [See Rot.] To make rotten.Well bet is rotten apple out of hoard,Than that it roty all the remenant. Chaucer.