Webster's Dictionary 1913

4618

Rope's-end

Rope's″–end′ (?), v. t. To punish with a rope's end.

4619

Ropeband

Rope″band′ (?), n.(Naut.) A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar. [Written also roband, and robbin.]

4620

Ropedancer

Rope″dan′cer (?), n. One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height. — Rope″dan′cing, n.

4621

Roper

Rop″er (?), n. 1. A maker of ropes. P. Plowman.2. One who ropes goods; a packer.3. One fit to be hanged. Douce.

4622

Ropery

Rop″er‐y (?), n. 1. A place where ropes are made.2. Tricks deserving the halter; roguery. “Saucy merchant... so full of his ropery.” Shak.

4623

Ropewalk

Rope″walk′ (?), a. A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.

4624

Ropewalker

Rope″walk′er (?), n. A ropedancer.

4625

Ropily

Rop″i‐ly (?), adv. In a ropy manner; in a viscous or glutinous manner.

4626

Ropiness

Rop″i‐ness, n. Quality of being ropy; viscosity.

4627

Ropish

Rop″ish, a. Somewhat ropy.

4628

Ropy

Rop″y (?), a. capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.

4629

Roque

Roque (rōk), n. [Abbr. fr. Croquet.] A form of croquet modified for greater accuracy of play. The court has a wood border often faced with rubber, used as a cushion in bank shot...

4630

Roquefort cheese

{ Roque′fort″ cheese, orRoque′fort″ } (?), n. A highly flavored blue-molded cheese, made at Roquefort, department of Aveyron, France. It is made from milk of ewes, sometimes wit...

4631

Roquelaure

Roq″ue‐laure (?; 277), n. [F.; so called after Duc de Roquelaure, in the reign of Louis XIV.] A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century. [Wri...

4632

Roquet

Ro‐quet″ (?), v. t.(Croquet) To hit, as another's ball, with one's own ball.

4633

Roquet (2)

Ro‐quet″, v. i. To hit another's ball with one's own.

4634

Roral

Ro″ral (?), a. [L. ros, roris, dew.] Of or pertaining to dew; consisting of dew; dewy. M. Green.

4635

Roration

Ro‐ra″tion (?), n. [L. roratio, fr. rorare to drop dew, fr. ros dew.] A falling of dew.

4636

Roric

Ro″ric (?), a. [L. ros, roris, dew.] Of or pertaining to dew; resembling dew; dewy.Roric figures(Physics), figures which appear upon a polished surface, as glass, when objects w...

4637

Rorid

Ro″rid (?), a. [L. roridus, fr. ros, roris, dew.] Dewy; bedewed. T. Granger.

4638

Roriferous

Ro‐rif″er‐ous (?), a. [L. rorifer; ros, roris, dew + ferre to bear: cf. F. rorifère.] generating or producing dew.

4639

Rorifluent

Ro‐rif″lu‐ent (?), a. [L. ros, roris, dew + fluens, p. pr. of fluere to flow.] Flowing with dew.

4640

Rorqual

Ror″qual (?), n. [Norw. rorqualus a whale with folds.] (Zoöl.) A very large North Atlantic whalebone whale (Physalus antiquorum, or Balænoptera physalus). It has a dorsal fin, a...

4641

Rorulent

Ro″ru‐lent (?), a. [L. rorulentus, from ros, roris, dew.] 1. Full of, or abounding in, dew.2. (Zoöl.) Having the surface appearing as if dusty, or covered with fine dew.

4642

Rory

Ro″ry (?), a. [L. ros, roris, dew.] Dewy.And shook his wings with rory May-dew wet. Fairfax.

4643

Rosaceous

Ro‐sa″ceous (?), a. [L. rosaceus, fr. rosa rose.] 1. (Bot.) (a) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceæ) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums...

4644

Rosacic

Ro‐sac″ic (?), a. [See Rosaceous.] (Old med. Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also lithic acid) found in certain red precipitates of urine. See Uric.