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2. pl. ( ) (Rom. Antiq.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
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3. Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
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Myself will mount the rostrum in his favor. Addison.
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4. (Zoöl.) (a) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds. (b) The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera. (c) The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of . (d) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
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5. (Bot.) Same as .
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6. (Old Chem.) The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic. Quincy.
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7. (Surg.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form. [Obs.] Coxe.
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Rosulate (?), a. [NL. rosulatus, fr. L. rosa a rose.] (Bot.) Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.
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Rosy (?), a. [Compar. Rosier (?); superl. Rosiest.] Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.
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A smile that glowed
Celestial rosy-red, love's proper hue. Milton.
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While blooming youth and gay delight
Sit thy rosy cheeks confessed. Prior.
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☞ Rosy is sometimes used in the formation of self�xplaining compounde; as, rosy-bosomed, rosy-colored, rosy-crowned, rosy-fingered, rosy-tinted.
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Coloq. Rosy cross . See the Note under , n.
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Rot (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rotting.] [OE. rotien, AS. rotian; akin to D. rotten, Prov. G. rotten, OHG. rozz�n, G. rösten to steep flax, Icel. rotna to rot, Sw. ruttna, Dan. raadne, Icel. rottin rotten. √117. Cf. , .] 1. To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.
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Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Pope.
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2. Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
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Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons. Macaulay.
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Rot, poor bachelor, in your club. Thackeray.
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Syn. -- To putrefy; corrupt; decay; spoil.
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Rot, v. t. 1. To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
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2. To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
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Rot, n. 1. Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
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2. (Bot.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
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3. [Cf. G. rotz glanders.] A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st , 2.
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His cattle must of rot and murrain die. Milton.
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Coloq. Bitter rot (Bot.), a disease of apples, caused by the fungus Glæosporium fructigenum. F. L. Scribner. -- Coloq. Black rot (Bot.), a disease of grapevines, attacking the leaves and fruit, caused by the fungus Læstadia Bidwellii. F. L. Scribner. -- Coloq. Dry rot (Bot.) See under . -- Coloq. Grinder's rot (Med.) See under . -- Coloq. Potato rot . (Bot.) See under . -- Coloq. White rot (Bot.), a disease of grapes, first appearing in whitish pustules on the fruit, caused by the fungus Coniothyrium diplodiella. F. L. Scribner.
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Rota (?), n. [L. rota wheel. The name is said to allude to the design of the floor of the room in which the court used to sit, which was that of a wheel. See .] 1. An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.
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2. (Eng. Hist.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.
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Rota (?), n. (Mus.) A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.
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Rotacism (?), n. See .
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Rotal (?), a. Relating to wheels or to rotary motion; rotary. [R.]
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Rotalite (?), n. [L. rota wheel + -lite.] (Paleon.) Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under .
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Rotary (?), a. [L. rota a wheel. See , v., and cf. , , , , a., .] Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion.
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Coloq. Rotary engine , steam engine in which the continuous rotation of the shaft is produced by the direct action of the steam upon rotating devices which serve as pistons, instead of being derived from a reciprocating motion, as in the ordinary engine; a steam turbine; -- called also rotatory engine. -- Coloq. Rotary pump , a pump in which the fluid is impelled by rotating devices which take the place of reciprocating buckets or pistons. -- Coloq. Rotary shears , shears, as for cloth, metal, etc., in which revolving sharp-edged or sharp-cornered wheels do the cutting. -- Coloq. Rotary valve , a valve acting by continuous or partial rotation, as in the four-way cock.
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Rotascope (?), n. [L. rota a wheel + -scope.] Same as , 1.
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Rotate (?), a. [L. rotatus, p. p. of rotare to turn round like a wheel, fr. rota wheel. See , and cf. .] Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
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Rotate (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rotated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rotating.] 1. To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
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2. To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
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Rotate, v. i. 1. To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
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2. To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office. [Colloq.] “Both, after a brief service, were rotated out of office.” Harper's Mag.
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Rotated (?), a. Turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate.
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Rotation (?), n. [L. rotatio: cf. F. rotation.] 1. The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution.
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2. Any return or succesion in a series.
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Coloq. Moment of rotation . See Moment of inertia, under . -- Coloq. Rotation in office , the practice of changing public officers at frequent intervals by discharges and substitutions. -- Coloq. Rotation of crops , the practices of cultivating an orderly succession of different crops on the same land.
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Rotation (?), a. Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
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Rotative (?), a. [Cf. F. rotatif.] turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational.
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This high rotative velocity of the sun must cause an equatorial rise of the solar atmosphere. Siemens.
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Coloq. Rotative engine , a steam engine in which the reciprocating motion of the piston is transformed into a continuous rotary motion, as by means of a connecting rod, a working beam and crank, or an oscillating cylinder.
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Rotator (?), n. [L.] 1. (Anat.) that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.
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2. (Metal.) A revolving reverberatory furnace.
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Rotatoria (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Rotatory (?), a. [Cf. F. rotatoire. See , .] 1. Turning as on an axis; rotary.
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2. Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles. Burke.
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3. (Opt.) Producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, the rotatory power of bodies on light. See the Note under . Nichol.
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Rotatory, n. (Zoöl.) A rotifer. [R.] Kirby.
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Rotche (?), n. (Zoöl.) A very small arctic sea bird (Mergulus alle, or Alle alle) common on both coasts of the Atlantic in winter; -- called also little auk, dovekie, rotch, rotchie, and sea dove.
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Rotchet (?), n. (Zoöl.) The European red gurnard (Trigla pini).
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Rote (?), n. A root. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Rote (?), n. [OE. rote, probably of German origin; cf. MHG. rotte, OHG. rota, hrota, LL. chrotta. Cf. a kind of violin.] (Mus.) A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
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Well could he sing and play on a rote. Chaucer.
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extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes. Sir W. Scott.
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Rote, n. [Cf. roaring.] The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See .
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Rote, n. [OF. rote, F. route, road, path. See , and cf. a furrow, .] A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote. Swift.
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till he the first verse could [i. e., knew] all by rote. Chaucer.
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Thy love did read by rote, and could not spell. Shak.
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Rote, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roted; p. pr. & vb. n. Roting.] To learn or repeat by rote. [Obs.] Shak.
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Rote, v. i. To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate. [Obs.] Z. Grey.
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Rotella (?), 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 Rotella, native of tropical seas.
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rotenone (?), n. A chemical substance (C23H22O6) extracted from the root of the derris (Derris elliptica, Derris malaccensis, and other species), used in treatment of scabies and as an insecticide for external infestation by chiggers in human medicine, and in veterinary medicine for the treatment of infestations with fleas, ticks, and lice.
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rotgut (?), n. 1. Bad small beer. [Slang]
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2. Any bad spirituous liquor, especially when adulterated so as to be very deleterious. [Slang]
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Rother (?), a. [AS. hryðer; cf. D. rund.] (Zoöl.) Bovine. -- n. A bovine beast. [Obs.] Shak.
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Coloq. Rother beasts , cattle of the bovine genus; black cattle. [Obs.] Golding. -- Coloq. Rother soil , the dung of rother beasts.
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Rother, n. [OE. See .] A rudder.
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Coloq. Rother nail , a nail with a very full head, used for fastening the rudder irons of ships; -- so called by shipwrights.
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Rotifer (?; 277), n. [NL. see .] (Zoöl.) One of the Rotifera. See Illust. in Appendix.
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Rotifera (?), 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, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits.
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Rotiform (?), a. [L. rota wheel + -form.] 1. Wheel-shaped; as, rotiform appendages.
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2. (Bot.) Same as .
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Rotograph (?), 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 are made, and are then developed, fixed, cut apart, and washed at a very rapid rate.
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Rotor (?), n. (Elec.) The rotating part of a generator or motor. Contrasted with stator, the stationary part.
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Rotta (?), n. (Mus.) See .
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Rotten (?), a. [Icel. rotinn; akin to Sw. rutten, Dan. radden. See .] Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence: (a) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
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You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek of the rotten fens. Shak.
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(b) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. “The deepness of the rotten way.” Knolles.
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Coloq. Rotten borough . See under . -- Coloq. Rotten stone (Min.), a soft stone, called also Tripoli (from the country from which it was formerly brought), used in all sorts of finer grinding and polishing in the arts, and for cleaning metallic substances. The name is also given to other friable siliceous stones applied to like uses.
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Syn. -- Putrefied; decayed; carious; defective; unsound; corrupt; deceitful; treacherous.
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-- Rottenly, adv. -- Rottenness, n.
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Rotula (?), n. [L., a little wheel; cf. It. rotula.] (Anat.) The patella, or kneepan.
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Rotular (?), a. [L. rotula, dim. of rota wheel.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the rotula, or kneepan.
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Rotund (?), a. [L. rotundus. See , and cf. .] 1. Round; circular; spherical.
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2. Hence, complete; entire.
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3. (Bot.) orbicular, or nearly so. Gray.
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Rotund, n. A rotunda. [Obs.] Burke.
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Rotunda (?), n. [Cf. It. rotonda, F. rotonde; both fr. L. rotundus round. See , a.] (Arch.) A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.
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Rotundate (?), a. Rounded; especially, rounded at the end or ends, or at the corners.
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Rotundifolious (?), a. [L. rotundus round + folium a leaf.] (Bot.) Having round leaves.
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Rotundity (?), n. [L. rotunditas: cf. F. rotondité.] 1. The state or quality of being rotu�; roundness; sphericity; circularity.
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Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world! Shak.
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2. Hence, completeness; entirety; roundness.
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For the more rotundity of the number and grace of the matter, it passeth for a full thousand. Fuller.
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A boldness and rotundity of speech. Hawthorne.
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Rotundness, n. Roundness; rotundity.
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Rotundo (?), n. See .
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Roture (?), n. [F.] 1. The condition of being a roturier.
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2. (Fr. & Canadian Law) A feudal tenure of lands by one who has no privileges of nobility, but is permitted to discharge all his obligations to his feudal lord or superior by a payment of rent in money or kind and without rendering any personal services.
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Roturer (?), n. A roturier. [Obs.] Howell.
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Roturier (?), n. [F.] A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.
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Roty (?), v. t. [See .] To make rotten. [Obs.]
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Well bet is rotten apple out of hoard,
Than that it roty all the remenant. Chaucer.
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Rouble (?), n. A coin. See .
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Rouche (?), n. See .
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Roué (?), n. [F., properly p. p. of rouer to break upon the wheel, fr. roue a wheel, L. rota. See , .] One devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.
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Rouet (?), n. [F.] A small wheel formerly fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them. Crabb.
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Rouge (?), a. [F., fr. L. rubeus red, akin to rubere to be red, ruber red. See .] red. [R.]
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Coloq. Rouge et noir (�) [F., red and black], a game at cards in which persons play against the owner of the bank; -- so called because the table around which the players sit has certain compartments colored red and black, upon which the stakes are deposited. Hoyle.
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Rouge, n. [F.] 1. (Chem.) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide. It is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. Called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc.
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2. A cosmetic used for giving a red color to the cheeks or lips. The best is prepared from the dried flowers of the safflower, but it is often made from carmine. Ure.
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Rouge, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rouged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rouging .] To paint the face or cheeks with rouge.
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Rouge, v. t. To tint with rouge; as, to rouge the face or the cheeks.
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Rougecroix (? or ?), n. [F., literally, red cross.] (Her.) One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.
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Rouge dragon (?), n. [F., literally, red dragon.] (Her.) One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.
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