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Show RO ROC couplets, and at the end of the fecon and third, the beginning of the rondea is repeated in an equivocal fenfe, if pofT revoux fible RoxrT. 7./. An animal flinted in th Some fithes have rows of teeth in the reofs o 7o Roor Bacon's Natural Hiftory «w. a. [from the noun. In 2 evils 1. To cover with a roof My ragged rones all fhiver and fhake As done high towers in an earthquake They wont in the wind, wag their wriggle tails Peark as a peacock, but nought it avails. Spesfer Large foundations may- be fafely laid Or houfes rogf°d, if friendly planets aid [from round. A roun mafs Certain rondles given in arms, have their name according to their feveral colours Peachan Ro'N1oN 7. /. [7ognon, French, the loins I know not certainly tlie meanin this word. A fat bulky woman o Give me, quoth I Aroint thee witch, the rump fed ronyen erigs Shake[peare Roov. #. /. [from rod. 1. The fourth part of an acre in fquar meafure Tve often wifh'd thatI had clear For life, fix hundred pounds a year A terras-walk, and half a 700 2. A pole a meafure of fixteen feet an a half in long meafure Satan With head uplift *bove the wave, his other part Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood Milton Fo ftone fence in the North, they dig th ftones for eighteen-pence a r00d, and make the wall for the fame price, reckoning twenty-one foot t the rwd or pole Mortimer 3. [nobe, Saxon. The crofs; fometime an image of a faint By the holy rood, I do not like thefe feveral councils Shakefpeare Addifon 2. To inclofe a houfe Here had we now our €ountry's honour rosf"d Were the grac'd perfon of our Banquo prefent Shakefpeare Having roofs Roory. adj. [from roof. Snakes Whether to roofy houfes they repair, Or fun themfelves abroad in open air In all abodes of peftilential kin Dryden's Georgicks To fheep ROOK. #. [pnoc, Saxon. 1. A bird refembling a crow : it feeds no on carrion, but grain Augurs Of land, fet out to plant a wood Swift No ftately larch-tree there expands a thad O'er half a rood of Larifféan glade Harte Creech. ings, that have not been roofed with vaults or arches that underftood relations, have By magpies, and by chouvghs, and rooks, brough fort The fecret'ft man of blood. Shakefpeare's Macbeth Huge flocks of rifing rooks forfake their food And crying feek the fhelter of the wood. Dryden The jay, the rook, the da Thomfon's Spring Aid the full concert 2. [Rocco, Italian. chefs A commo man a So have I feen a king on chefs His rooks and knights withdrawn His queen and bifhops in diftrefs Shifting about grow lefs and lefs Dryden's Songs With here and there a pawn 3. A cheat; a trickifh rapacious fellaw 1 am, like an old rook, who is ruined by gaming forced to live on the good fortune of the pufhin Wycherley young men 2. The houfe in general Tl tell all ftriétly true If time, and foode, and wine enough aceru Within your rosfe to us 5 that freely w May fit and banquet Chapman 3. The vault; the infide of the arch tha covers a building. From the magnanimity of the Jews, in caufe of moft extreme hazard, thofe ftrange and unwonted refolutions have grown which for all circum ftances, no people under the rosf of heaven di Hooker ever match The duf of heav'n Should have afcended to the roo Rais'd by your populous troops Shakefpeare In thy fane, the dufty fpoils among High on the burnifh'd roof, my banner fhall b hung Dryden 4. The palate mouth th upper part of th A nurfer with a mountain and rookery, is more contemplative than this court. Pspe Roo'ky. adj. [from rook. rooks Inhabited b Light thickens, and the cro Makes wing to th' reoky wood ROOM =a#. / Gothick. [pum Shakefpeare Saxon rums 1. Space; extent of place great or {fmall With new wonder now he views To all delight of human fenfe expos' In narrow room nature's whole wealth Milton If you will have a young man to put his travel into a little room, and in fhort time gather much this he muft do 2. Space or place unoccupied Bacon The dry land is much too big for its inhabitants and that before they fhall want room by encreafin and multiplying, there may be new heavens an a new earth Bentley 3. Way unobftrnéted Swearing till my very roof was dr With oaths of dove Roo'kErY. #. /. [from rook. of rooks No lone houfe in Wales Shakefp. Merchant of Venice My very lips might freeze to my teeth, my tongu to the ro0f of my mouth, er¢ I thould.come by a fir to thaw me Shakelpeare By contributing to the contentment Offifirm and rendering them as happy as lies in ¥ ey we do God's work, are in his place an rg,p Calamy's Sermy - 5. Unobftru&ted opportunity fhWbcn this princefs was in her father' e was fo celebrated, that there was no prie the empire, who had room for fuch :ZP:;]?;I that. was not ambitious of gainin her ingo ;? fam ly Addifon's Frecholder It puts us upon fo eager a purfuit of the advan tages of life, as leaves no roum to refledt on th great author of them Alterbyrg 6. Poflible admiffion; poffible mo € Will you not look with pity on me Is there no hope ? is there no rosm for pardon 4. Plifp 7. An apartment in a houfe ;. fo. much o a houfe as is inclofed. within partic tions ),cfigmal hwf I found the prince in the next room Wathing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks Shakefpers,- {y If when fhe appears in th™ room, Thou doft not quake, and art.ftruckidumb Thou lov2{t amifs ; Locke on Education Perching within fquare royal roswves Sidney Return to her, and fifty men difmifs'd No, rather I abjure all 700f5, and chuf ‘To wage againft the enmity o' th" air Shakefp For better ends our kind R edeemer 4 ,H#" Or the fallen angels rgoms wi 1 be butill r"PPly'd Know this Roo'prorT. n. [ [reodand oft.] A gal- ‘70 Rook. @. n. [from the noun. T lery in the church on which relique rob ; to cheat They rook'd upon us with defign or images were fet-to view T out-refor an undermine Hudibras ROOF. . /. [ppof, Saxon. In the plu- How any one's being put into a mixed herd o ral Sidney has roowes : now ob, folete. - unruly boys, and there learning to rook at fpan1. The cover of a houfe farthing, fits him for converfation, I do not fee Her fhoulders be like two white doves y mut give place to ;I::fi;:;"" and alleys brown Miiton I have not feen the remains of any Roman build that c ¢ nnot be rem ove manifeft danger of greater to f cceed invmhmt wifdom of neceffi He enter'd foon the fhad High rooft, and walks bencath 7. / This paternal regal power, being divine f 1 for eaves n where T t"'"‘}f:fi" 4. Place of another; ftead, their mouths; as pikes, falmons, and trouts growth : commonly pronounced ruzz Ro'~pLE RO Make room, and let him ftand before our face Shake[peare What train of fervants, what extent of field Shall aid the birthy or give him regm to build Creech And to love true Thou muft begin again, and love anew. Suclirg. In a prince's court, the only queftion 2 man istoafk is, whether it be the cuftom of the court, o will of the prince, to be uncovered in fome rum Stilling flectsand not in others It will afford me a few pleafant rooms, for fucha friend as yourfelf Poper Roo'macE n. /. [from room. Space place Man, of all fenfible creatures, !1as~theful!d brain to his preportion, for the lodging of the intelle@ive faculties jt muft be a filent charafle of hope, when there is good ftore of roumage an Watti receipt, where thofe powers are ftowed Roo'MINESs. 7. /. [from roomy.] Space quantity of extent Roo™™y. adj. [from room.] Spacious wide ;. large Wit}: raomy decks, her guns‘of' gughty ftrengthy Deep in her draught, and warlike in her leanrj 5 . tho&;il th rom mor i e num This fort o r can turn itfelf with greater eafe in a largeDrydens pafs RoosT. n. £ [ppore, Saxon. flee t fit bir c wh o Th 1. Sooner than the mattin-bell was nmgj He clap'd his wings upon his regff, and 1D0 dg&m 2. The a& of {leeping ' i r l z g r a A fox fpied out a coc Lar gs he win a fuppo the body a ToRoosT. @. 7, [rogfier f 1. Fo fleep as a bird The cock reoffed at night upon.th 2, To lodge ROOT. a. / Danifh. bpugh!' LrEj}rM In burlv efque-.. [rit, Sw 1. The it no M i 0 e @ Vo b |