Rocker (n.) One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.
Rocker (n.) One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks.
Rocker (n.) Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
Rocker (n.) A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.
Rocker (n.) A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair.
Rocker (n.) A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
Rocker (n.) Same as Rock shaft.
Rockered (a.) Shaped like a rocker; curved; as, a rockered keel.
Rockery (n.) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.
Rocket (n.) A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.
Rocket (n.) Damewort.
Rocket (n.) Rocket larkspur. See below.
Rocket (n.) An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.
Rocket (n.) A blunt lance head used in the joust.
Rocketed (imp. & p. p.) of Rocket
Rocketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rocket
Rocket (v. i.) To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.
Rocketer (n.) A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.
Rockfish (n.) Any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa.
Rockfish (n.) The striped bass. See Bass.
Rockfish (n.) Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.
Rockfish (n.) An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.
Rockiness (n.) The state or quality of being rocky.
Rocking (a.) Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking.
Rocking-chair (n.) A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.
Rocking-horse (n.) The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.
Rocking-stone (n.) A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force.
Rockless (a.) Being without rocks.
Rockling (n.) Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels.
Rockrose (n.) A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European H. vulgare and the American frostweed, H. Canadense.
Rock shaft () A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.
Rock staff (v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.
Rocksucker (n.) A lamprey.
Rockweed (n.) Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus.
Rockwood (n.) Ligniform asbestus; also, fossil wood.
Rockwork (n.) Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
Rockwork (n.) A rockery.
Rocky (a.) Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.
Rocky (a.) Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield.
Rocky (a.) Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.
Rocoa (n.) The orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto.
Rococo (n.) A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
Rococo (a.) Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.
Rod (n.) A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
Rod (n.) An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.
Rod (n.) A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
Rod (n.) A support for a fishing line; a fish pole.
Rod (n.) A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar.
Rod (n.) An instrument for measuring.
Rod (n.) A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
Roddy (a.) Full of rods or twigs.
Roddy (a.) Ruddy.
Rode (n.) Redness; complexion.
Rode () imp. of Ride.
Rode (n.) See Rood, the cross.
Rodent (v. t.) Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
Rodent (v. t.) Gnawing.
Rodent (v. t.) Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.
Rodent (n.) One of the Rodentia.
Rodentia (a.) An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.
Rodeo (n.) A round-up. See Round-up.
Rodge (n.) The gadwall.
Rodomel (n.) Juice of roses mixed with honey.
Rodomont (n.) A vain or blustering boaster; a braggart; a braggadocio.
Rodomont (a.) Bragging; vainly boasting.
Rodomontade (n.) Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.
Rodomontade (v. i.) To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.
Rodomontadist (n.) One who boasts.
Rodomontado (n.) Rodomontade.
Rodomontador (n.) A rodomontadist.
Rodsmen (pl. ) of Rodsman
Rodsman (n.) One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party.
Rody (a.) Ruddy.
Roe (n.) A roebuck. See Roebuck.
Roe (n.) The female of any species of deer.
Roe (n.) The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male.
Roe (n.) A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
Roebuck (n.) A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.
Roed (a.) Filled with roe.
Roedeer (n.) The roebuck.
Roestone (n.) Same as Oolite.
Rogation (n.) The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree.
Rogation (n.) Litany; supplication.
Rogatory (a.) Seeking information; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission.
Rogue (n.) A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Rogue (n.) A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
Rogue (n.) One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment.
Rogue (n.) An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.
Rogue (n.) A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.
Rogue (v. i.) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
Rogue (v. t.) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
Rogue (v. t.) To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).
Roguery (n.) The life of a vargant.
Roguery (n.) The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices.
Roguery (n.) Arch tricks; mischievousness.
Rogueship (n.) The quality or state of being a rogue.
Roguish (a.) Vagrant.
Roguish (a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, a rogue; knavish.
Roguish (a.) Pleasantly mischievous; waggish; arch.
Roguy (a.) Roguish.