Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 76

Roofer (n.) One who puts on roofs.

Roofing (n.) The act of covering with a roof.

Roofing (n.) The materials of which a roof is composed; materials for a roof.

Roofing (n.) Hence, the roof itself; figuratively, shelter.

Roofing (n.) The wedging, as of a horse or car, against the top of an underground passage.

Roofless (a.) Having no roof; as, a roofless house.

Roofless (a.) Having no house or home; shelterless; homeless.

Rooflet (n.) A small roof, covering, or shelter.

Rooftree (n.) The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself.

Roofy (a.) Having roofs.

Rook (n.) Mist; fog. See Roke.

Rook (v. i.) To squat; to ruck.

Rook (n.) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.

Rook (n.) A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.

Rook (n.) A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.

Rooked (imp. & p. p.) of Rook

Rooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rook

Rook (v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating.

Rookeries (pl. ) of Rookery

Rookery (n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.

Rookery (n.) A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc.

Rookery (n.) The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.

Rookery (n.) A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.

Rookery (n.) A brothel.

Rooky (a.) Misty; gloomy.

Room (n.) Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room.

Room (n.) A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.

Room (n.) Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.

Room (n.) Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated.

Room (n.) Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.

Roomed (imp. & p. p.) of Room

Rooming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Room

Room (v. i.) To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.

Room (a.) Spacious; roomy.

Roomage (n.) Space; place; room.

Roomer (n.) A lodger.

Roomer (a.) At a greater distance; farther off.

Roomful (a.) Abounding with room or rooms; roomy.

Roomfuls (pl. ) of Roomful

Roomful (n.) As much or many as a room will hold; as, a roomful of men.

Roomily (adv.) Spaciously.

Roominess (n.) The quality or state of being roomy; spaciousness; as, the roominess of a hall.

Roomless (a.) Being without room or rooms.

Roommate (n.) One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.

Roomsome (a.) Roomy.

Roomth (n.) Room; space.

Roomthy (a.) Roomy; spacious.

Roomy (a.) Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck.

Roon (a. & n.) Vermilion red; red.

Roop (n.) See Roup.

Roorback (n.) Alt. of Roorbach

Roorbach (n.) A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue.

Roosa oil () The East Indian name for grass oil. See under Grass.

Roost (n.) Roast.

Roost (v. t.) See Roust, v. t.

Roost (n.) The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.

Roost (n.) A collection of fowls roosting together.

Roosted (imp. & p. p.) of Roost

Roosting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roost

Roost (v. i.) To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.

Roost (v. i.) Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.

Roostcock (n.) The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.

Rooster (n.) The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.

Root (v. i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

Root (v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.

Root (v. t.) To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.

Root (n.) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.

Root (n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.

Root (n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.

Root (n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.

Root (n.) An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.

Root (n.) A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.

Root (n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.

Root (n.) That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.

Root (n.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.

Root (n.) The lowest place, position, or part.

Root (n.) The time which to reckon in making calculations.

Rooted (imp. & p. p.) of Root

Rooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Root

Root (v. i.) To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.

Root (v. i.) To be firmly fixed; to be established.

Root (v. t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.

Root (v. t.) To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.

Rootcap (n.) A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.

Rooted (a.) Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart.

Rooter (n.) One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.

Rootery (n.) A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.

Rootless (a.) Destitute of roots.

Rootlet (n.) A radicle; a little root.

Rootstock (n.) A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s/ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome.

Rooty (a.) Full of roots; as, rooty ground.

Ropalic (a.) See Rhopalic.

Rope (n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.

Rope (n.) A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.

Rope (n.) The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.

Roped (imp. & p. p.) of Rope

Roping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rope

Rope (v. i.) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.

Rope (v. t.) To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.

Rope (v. t.) To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.

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