ROCK-BUTTER
ROCK-BUTTER, noun A subsulphite of alumin, oozing from aluminous rocks.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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ROCK-CRYSTAL
ROCK-CRYS'TAL, noun The most perfect variety of silicious earth or quartz; limpid quartz. When purest it is white or colorless, but it is found of a grayish or yellowish white, ...
ROCK-ROSE
ROCK'-ROSE, noun A plant of the genus Cistus.
ROCK-RUBY
ROCK-RUBY, noun A name sometimes given to the garnet, when it is of a strong, but not a deep red, and has a cast of blue.
ROCK-SALT
ROCK'-SALT, noun Fossil or mineral salt; salt dug from the earth; muriate of soda. But in America, this name is sometimes given to salt that comes in large crystals from the Wes...
ROCKED
ROCK'ED, participle passive [from rock, the verb.] Moved one way and the other.
ROCKER
ROCK'ER, noun One who rocks the cradle; also, the curving piece of wood on which a cradle or chair rocks.
ROCKET
ROCK'ET, nounAn artificial fire-work, consisting of a cylindrical case of paper, filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal and sulphur. This being...
ROCKINESS
ROCK'INESS, noun [from rocky.] State of abounding with rocks.
ROCKING
ROCK'ING, participle present tense Moving backwards and forwards.
ROCKLESS
ROCK'LESS, adjective Being without rocks.ROCK'-OIL, noun Another name for petrol or petroleum.ROCK'-PIGEON, noun A pigeon that builds her nest on a rock.
ROCKY
ROCK'Y, adjective [from rock.]1. Full of rocks; as a rocky mountain; rocky shore.2. Resembling a rock; as the rocky orb of a shield.3. Very hard; stony; obdurate; insusceptible ...
ROD
ROD, noun [Latin radius, ray, radix, root.]1. The shoot or long twig of any woody plant; a branch, or the stem of a shrub; as a rod of hazle, of birch, of oak or hickory. Hence,...
RODE
RODE, preterit tense of ride; also, a cross. [See Rood.]
RODOMONT
ROD'OMONT, nounA vain boaster.ROD'OMONT, adjective Bragging; vainly boasting.
RODOMONTADE
RODOMONTA'DE, noun [See Rodomont.]Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible.RODOMONT...
RODOMONTADIST
RODOMONT'ADIST,RODOMONTA'DOR, noun A blustering boaster; one that brags or vaunts.
RODOMONTADOR
RODOMONTA'DOR, n. A blustering boaster; one that brags or vaunts.
ROE
ROE,RO'E-STONE, noun Called also oolite, which see.
ROEBUCK
ROEBUCK, noun1. A species of deer, the Cervus capreolus, with erect cylindrical branched horns, forked at the summit. This is one of the smallest of the cervine genus, but of el...
ROGATION
ROGA'TION, noun [Latin rogatio; rogo, to ask.]1. Litany; supplication.He perfecteth the rogations or litanies before in use.2. In Roman jurisprudence, the demand by the consuls ...
ROGATION-WEEK
ROGA'TION-WEEK, noun The second week before Whitsunday, thus called from the three fasts observed therein; viz, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, called rogation-days, because ...
ROGUE
ROGUE, noun rog. [Gr., Eng. rogue by transposition of letters. The word arga, in the laws of the Longobards, denotes a cuckold.]1. In law, a vagrant; a sturdy beggar; a vagabond...
ROGUERY
ROGUERY, noun1. The life of a vagrant. [Not little used.]2. Knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices.Tis no scandal grown, for debt and roguery to quit the town.3. W...
ROGUESHIP
ROGUESHIP, noun The qualities or personage of a rogue.
ROGUISH
ROGUISH, adjective1. Vagrant; vagabond. [Nearly obsolete.]2. Knavish; fraudulent; dishonest. [This is the present sense of the word.]3. Waggish; wanton; slightly mischievous.
ROGUISHLY
ROGUISHLY, adverb Like a rogue; knavishly; wantonly.