Rounding (n.) Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.
Rounding (n.) Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.
Roundish (a.) Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure.
Roundlet (n.) A little circle.
Roundly (adv.) In a round form or manner.
Roundly (adv.) Openly; boldly; peremptorily; plumply.
Roundly (adv.) Briskly; with speed.
Roundly (adv.) Completely; vigorously; in earnest.
Roundly (adv.) Without regard to detail; in gross; comprehensively; generally; as, to give numbers roundly.
Roundness (n.) The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc.
Roundness (n.) Fullness; smoothness of flow; as, the roundness of a period; the roundness of a note; roundness of tone.
Roundness (n.) Openess; plainess; boldness; positiveness; as, the roundness of an assertion.
Roundridge (v. t.) To form into round ridges by plowing.
Round-shouldered (a.) Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
Roundsmen (pl. ) of Roundsman
Roundsman (n.) A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
Roundtop (n.) A top; a platform at a masthead; -- so called because formerly round in shape.
Round-up (n.) The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
Roundure (n.) Roundness; a round or circle.
Roundworm (n.) A nematoid worm.
Roundy (a.) Round.
Roup (v. i. & t.) To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction.
Roup (n.) An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction.
Roup (n.) A disease in poultry. See Pip.
Rousant (a.) Rising; -- applied to a bird in the attitude of rising; also, sometmes, to a bird in profile with wings addorsed.
Rouse (v. i. & t.) To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
Rouse (n.) A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
Rouse (n.) A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
Roused (imp. & p. p.) of Rouse
Rousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rouse
Rouse (v.) To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
Rouse (v.) To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
Rouse (v.) To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.
Rouse (v.) To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
Rouse (v.) To raise; to make erect.
Rouse (v. i.) To get or start up; to rise.
Rouse (v. i.) To awake from sleep or repose.
Rouse (v. i.) To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
Rouser (n.) One who, or that which, rouses.
Rouser (n.) Something very exciting or great.
Rouser (n.) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
Rousing (a.) Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.
Rousing (a.) Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie.
Rousingly (adv.) In a rousing manner.
Roussette (n.) A fruit bat, especially the large species (Pieropus vulgaris) inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.
Roussette (n.) Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; -- called also dogfish. See Dogfish.
Roust (v. t.) To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out.
Roust (n.) A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs.
Rout (v. i.) To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.
Rout (n.) A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.
Rout (v. t.) To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
Rout (v. i.) To search or root in the ground, as a swine.
Rout (n.) A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.
Rout (n.) A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
Rout (n.) The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.
Rout (n.) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.
Rout (n.) A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.
Routed (imp. & p. p.) of Rout
Routing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rout
Rout (v. t.) To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.
Rout (v. i.) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
Route (n.) The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.
Router (n.) A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
Router (n.) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
Routhe (n.) Ruth; sorrow.
Routinary (a.) Involving, or pertaining to, routine; ordinary; customary.
Routine (n.) A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.
Routine (n.) Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit.
Routinism (n.) the practice of doing things with undiscriminating, mechanical regularity.
Routinist (n.) One who habituated to a routine.
Routish (a.) Uproarious; riotous.
Routously (adv.) With that violation of law called a rout. See 5th Rout, 4.
Roux (n.) A thickening, made of flour, for soups and gravies.
Rove (v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture.
Rove (v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
Rove (v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
Rove (n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
Rove (n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
Roved (imp. & p. p.) of Rove
Roving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rove
Rove (v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
Rove (v. i.) Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.
Rove (v. i.) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
Rove (v. t.) To wander over or through.
Rove (v. t.) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
Rove (n.) The act of wandering; a ramble.
Rover (v. i.) One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.
Rover (v. i.) One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.
Rover (v. i.) Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.
Rover (v. i.) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
Rover (v. i.) Casual marks at uncertain distances.
Rover (v. i.) A sort of arrow.
Roving (n.) The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.
Roving (n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.
Roving (n.) The act of one who roves or wanders.
Rovingly (adv.) In a wandering manner.
Rovingness (n.) The state of roving.
Row (a. & adv.) Rough; stern; angry.
Row (n.) A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.