Rohob (n.) An inspissated juice. See Rob.
Roial (a.) Royal.
Roiled (imp. & p. p.) of Roil
Roiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roil
Roil (v.) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.
Roil (v.) To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex.
Roil (v. i.) To wander; to roam.
Roil (v. i.) To romp.
Roily (a.) Turbid; as, roily water.
Roin (v. t.) See Royne.
Roin (n.) A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.
Roinish (a.) See Roynish.
Roint (interj.) See Aroint.
Roist (v. i.) See Roister.
Roister (v. i.) To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent.
Roister (n.) See Roisterer.
Roisterer (n.) A blustering, turbulent fellow.
Roisterly (a.) Blustering; violent.
Roisterly (adv.) In a roistering manner.
Rokambole (n.) See Rocambole.
Roke (n.) Mist; smoke; damp
Roke (n.) A vein of ore.
Rokeage (n.) Alt. of Rokee
Rokee (n.) Parched Indian corn, pounded up and mixed with sugar; -- called also yokeage.
Rokelay (n.) A short cloak.
Roky (a.) Misty; foggy; cloudy.
Role (n.) A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the role of philanthropist.
Rolled (imp. & p. p.) of Roll
Rolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roll
Roll (n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
Roll (n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
Roll (n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
Roll (n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
Roll (n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
Roll (n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.
Roll (n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
Roll (n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
Roll (n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
Roll (n.) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
Roll (v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.
Roll (v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
Roll (v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
Roll (v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
Roll (v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
Roll (v. i.) To turn; to move circularly.
Roll (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
Roll (v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.
Roll (v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
Roll (v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
Roll (v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
Roll (v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
Roll (v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
Roll (v.) That which rolls; a roller.
Roll (v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
Roll (v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
Roll (v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
Roll (v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
Roll (v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
Roll (v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
Roll (v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
Roll (v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
Roll (v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
Roll (v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
Roll (v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
Roll (v.) Part; office; duty; role.
Rollable (a.) Capable of being rolled.
Roller (n.) One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.
Roller (n.) A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.
Roller (n.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather.
Roller (n.) A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.
Roller (n.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them.
Roller (n.) A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man.
Roller (n.) A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
Roller (n.) ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix.
Roller (n.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight.
Roller (n.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae.
Rolley (n.) A small wagon used for the underground work of a mine.
Rollicked (imp. & p. p.) of Rollic
Rollicking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rollic
Rollic (v. i.) To move or play in a careless, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; to frolic; to sport; commonly in the form rollicking.
Rolling (a.) Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.
Rolling (a.) Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair.
Rolling (a.) Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land.
Rolling-pin (n.) A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness.
Rollway (n.) A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream.
Rolly-poly (n.) A kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit, rolled into a cylindrical form, and boiled or steamed.
Rolly-poly (a.) Shaped like a rolly-poly; short and stout.
Rolly-pooly (n.) A game in which a ball, rolling into a certain place, wins.
Roly-poly (n. & a.) Rolly-poly.
Romage (n. & v.) See Rummage.
Romaic (a.) Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language.
Romaic (n.) The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic.
Roman (a.) Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
Roman (a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.
Roman (a.) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.
Roman (a.) Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.
Roman (n.) A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
Roman (n.) Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.
Romance (n.) A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.
Romance (n.) An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.