ROTATED
RO'TATED, adjective [Latin rotatus.] Turned round, as a wheel.
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ROTATION
ROTA'TION, noun [Latin rotatio, from roto, to turn; rota, a wheel.]1. The act of turning, as a wheel or solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a...
ROTATIVE
RO'TATIVE, adjective Turning, as a wheel; rotary. [Little used.]
ROTATO-PLANE
ROTA'TO-PLANE, adjective In botany, wheel-shaped and flat, without a tube; as a rotato-plane corol.
ROTATOR
ROTA'TOR, noun [Latin] That which gives a circular or rolling motion; a muscle producing a rolling motion.
ROTATORY
RO'TATORY, adjective [from rotator.]1. Turning on an axis, as a wheel; rotary.2. Going in a circle; following in succession; as rotatory assemblies.[This word is often used, pro...
ROTE
ROTE, noun A kind of violin or harp. obsoleteROTE, noun [Latin rota, a wheel.]Properly, a round of words; frequent repetition of words or sounds, without attending to the signif...
ROTHER-BEASTS
ROTH'ER-BEASTS, nounCattle of the bovine genus; called in England black cattle. [Not used in America.]
ROTHER-NAILS
ROTH'ER-NAILS, noun [corrupted from rudder-nails.]Among shipwrights, nails with very full heads, used for fastening the rudder irons of ships.
ROTHOFFITE
ROTH'OFFITE, noun A variety of grenate, brown or black, found in Sweden. It has a resemblance to melanite, another variety, but differs from it in having a small portion of alumin.
ROTOCO
RO'TOCO, noun An eastern weight of 5 pounds.
ROTTEN
ROTTEN, adjective rot'n.1. Putrid; carious; decomposed by the natural process of decay; as a rotten plank.2. Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective in principle; treacherous; de...
ROTTEN-STONE
ROT'TEN-STONE, noun A soft stone or mineral, called also Tripoli, terra Tripolitana, from the country from which it was formerly brought. It is used in all sorts of finer grindi...
ROTTENNESS
ROT'TENNESS, noun State of being decayed or putrid; cariousness; putrefaction; unsoundness.
ROTUND
ROTUND', adjective [Latin rotundus, probably formed on rota, a wheel, as jocundus on jocus.]1. Round; circular; spherical.2. In botany, circumscribed by one unbroken curve, or w...
ROTUNDIFOLIOUS
ROTUNDIFO'LIOUS, adjective [Latin rotundus, round, and folium, a leaf.] Having round leaves.
ROTUNDITY
ROTUND'ITY, noun Roundness; sphericity; circularity; as the rotundity of a globe.
ROTUNDO
ROTUND'O, noun A round building; any building that is round both on the outside and inside. The most celebrated edifice of this kind is the Pantheon at Rome.
ROUCOU
ROUCOU, noun roo'coo. A substance used in dyeing; the same as anotta.ROGUE, a roozh. Red.
ROUGE
ROUGE, noun roozh. Red paint; a substance used for painting the cheeks.ROUGE, verb intransitive [supra.] To paint the face, or rather the cheeks.ROUGE, verb transitive [supra.] ...
ROUGH
ROUGH, adjective [Latin raucus. Eng. rye, that is rough Latin ruga, a wrinkle. Gr. to snore. Latin ruga, a wrinkle, a ridge. See Ridge. The primary sense is to stretch or strain...
ROUGH-CAST
ROUGH-CAST, verb transitive ruf'-cast. [rough and cast.]1. To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction and polish.2. To mold without nicety or elegance, or to f...
ROUGH-DRAUGHT
ROUGH-DRAUGHT, noun ruf'-draft. A draught in its rudiments; a draught not perfected; a sketch.
ROUGH-DRAW
ROUGH-DRAW, verb transitive ruf'-draw. To draw or delineate coarsely.
ROUGH-DRAWN
ROUGH-DRAWN, participle passive ruf'-drawn. Coarsely drawn.
ROUGH-FOOTED
ROUGH-FOOTED, adjective ruf'-footed. Feather-footed; as a rough-footed dove.
ROUGH-HEW
ROUGH-HEW, verb transitive ruf'-hew. [rough and hew.]1. To hew coarsely without smoothing; as, to rough-hew timber.2. To give the first form or shape to a thing.There's a divini...