AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
rotche: a very small arctic sea bird (mergulus alle, or alle alle) common on both coasts of the atlantic in winter; -- called also little auk, dovekie, rotch, rotchie, and sea dove.
rote: a root.-a kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.-the noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. see rut.-a frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote.-to learn or repeat by rote.-to go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
rotella: any one of numerous species of small, polished, brightcolored gastropods of the genus rotella, native of tropical seas.
rotgut: bad small beer.-any bad spirituous liquor, especially when adulterated so as to be very deleterious.
rotifera: an order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels.  the species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits.
rotten: having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.-offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.-not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone.
rotund: round; circular; spherical.-hence, complete; entire.-orbicular, or nearly so.-a rotunda.
rotunda: a round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the pantheon at rome. less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the capitol at washington.
rotundity: the state or quality of being rotu/; roundness; sphericity; circularity.-hence, completeness; entirety; roundness.
roturier: a person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.
roue: one devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.
rouet: a small wheel formerly fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them.
rouge: red.-a red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide.  it is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc.-a cosmetic used for giving a red color to the cheeks or lips. the best is prepared from the dried flowers of the safflower, but it is often made from carmine.-to paint the face or cheeks with rouge.-to tint with rouge; as, to rouge the face or the cheeks.
rough: having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.-not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road.-not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond.-tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water.-marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat.-hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.-not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper.-marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions.-loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers.-austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.-tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a rough day.-hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught.-produced offhand.-boisterous weather.-a rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.-in a rough manner; rudely; roughly.-to render rough; to roughen.-to break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.-to cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch.
rough-grained: having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not polished; brisque.
roughcast: to form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.-to mold without nicety or elegance; to form with asperities and inequalities.-to plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as, to roughcast a building.-a rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.-a kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings.
roughhew: to hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber.-to give the first form or shape to; to form rudely; to shape approximately and rudely; to roughcast.
roughhewn: hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.-of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained.
roughing-in: the first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
roughleg: any one of several species of large hawks of the genus archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes.  called also rough-legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard.
roughly: in a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.
roughrider: one who breaks horses; especially (mil.), a noncommissioned officer in the british cavalry, whose duty is to assist the riding master.
roughscuff: a rough, coarse fellow; collectively, the lowest class of the people; the rabble; the riffraff.
roughshod: shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.
roughstrings: pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support.
roughtail: any species of small ground snakes of the family uropeltidae; -- so called from their rough tails.
roughwork: to work over coarsely, without regard to nicety, smoothness, or finish.
roughwrought: wrought in a rough, unfinished way; worked over coarsely.
roulade: a smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in handel's oratorios.
rouleau: a little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll.
roulette: a game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.-a small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.-a similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.-the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. see cycloid, and epycycloid.
rounce: the handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again; -- sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.
rounceval: large; strong; -- from the gigantic bones shown at roncesvalles, and alleged to be those of old heroes.-a giant; anything large; a kind of pea called also marrowfat.
round-arm: applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally.
round-up: the act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
roundabout: circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.-encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.-a horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round.-a dance performed in a circle.-a short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc.-a state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude.
rounded: of round-modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. see guide to pronunciation, / 11.
roundel: a rondelay.-anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.-a small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.-a circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle.-a bastion of a circular form.
roundelay: see rondeau, and rondel.-a tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively.-a dance in a circle.-anything having a round form; a roundel.
rounder: one who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.-a tool for making an edge or surface round.-an english game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another english game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football.
roundfish: any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes.-a lake whitefish (coregonus quadrilateralis), less compressed than the common species.  it is very abundant in british america and alaska.
roundhead: a nickname for a puritan. see roundheads, the, in the dictionary of noted names in fiction.
roundhouse: a constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house.-a cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach.-a privy near the bow of the vessel.-a house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.
rounding: of round-round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.-small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.-modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. see guide to pronunciation, / 11.
roundly: in a round form or manner.-openly; boldly; peremptorily; plumply.-briskly; with speed.-completely; vigorously; in earnest.-without regard to detail; in gross; comprehensively; generally; as, to give numbers roundly.
roundness: 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.-fullness; smoothness of flow; as, the roundness of a period; the roundness of a note; roundness of tone.-openess; plainess; boldness; positiveness; as, the roundness of an assertion.
roundsman: a patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
roundtop: a top; a platform at a masthead; -- so called because formerly round in shape.
roup: to cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction.-an outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction.-a disease in poultry. see pip.
rousant: rising; -- applied to a bird in the attitude of rising; also, sometmes, to a bird in profile with wings addorsed.
rouse: to pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.-a bumper in honor of a toast or health.-a carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.-to cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.-to wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.-to excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.-to put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.-to raise; to make erect.-to get or start up; to rise.-to awake from sleep or repose.-to be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
rouser: one who, or that which, rouses.-something very exciting or great.-a stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
rousing: of rouse-having power to awaken or excite; exciting.-very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie.
roussette: 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.-any small shark of the genus scyllium; -- called also dogfish. see dogfish.
roust: to rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out.-a strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
roustabout: 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: to roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.-a bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.-to scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.-to search or root in the ground, as a swine.-a troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.-a disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.-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.-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.-a fashionable assembly, or large evening party.-to break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.-to assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
route: 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: a plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.-a plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
routine: a round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.-any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit.
routously: with that violation of law called a rout. see 5th rout, 4.
rove: of reeve-to draw through an eye or aperture.-to draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.-to twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.-a copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.-a roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.-to practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.-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.-to shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).-to wander over or through.-to plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.-the act of wandering; a ramble.
rover: one who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.-one who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.-hence, a fickle, inconstant person.-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.-casual marks at uncertain distances.-a sort of arrow.
roving: of rove-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.-a roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. see 2d rove, 2.-the act of one who roves or wanders.
row: rough; stern; angry.-a noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.-a series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns.-to propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.-to transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.-to use the oar; as, to row well.-to be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.-the act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
rowan tree: a european tree (pyrus aucuparia) related to the apple, but with pinnate leaves and flat corymbs of small white flowers followed by little bright red berries.  called also roan tree, and mountain ash.  the name is also applied to two american trees of similar habit (pyrus americana, and p. sambucifolia).
rowdy: one who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow.
rowdyish: resembling a rowdy in temper or conduct; characteristic of a rowdy.
rowed: of row-formed into a row, or rows; having a row, or rows; as, a twelve-rowed ear of corn.
rowel: the little wheel of a spur, with sharp points.-a little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.-a roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.-to insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse).
rowen: a stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.-the second growth of grass in a season; aftermath.
rowlock: a contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. it consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar.
rowport: an opening in the side of small vessels of war, near the surface of the water, to facilitate rowing in calm weather.
roxburgh: a style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.
royal: kingly; pertaining to the crown or the sovereign; suitable for a king or queen; regal; as, royal power or prerogative; royal domains; the royal family; royal state.-noble; generous; magnificent; princely.-under the patronage of royality; holding a charter granted by the sovereign; as, the royal academy of arts; the royal society.-printing and writing papers of particular sizes. see under paper, n.-a small sail immediately above the topgallant sail.-one of the upper or distal branches of an antler, as the third and fourth tynes of the antlers of a stag.-a small mortar.-one of the soldiers of the first regiment of foot of the british army, formerly called the royals, and supposed to be the oldest regular corps in europe; -- now called the royal scots.-an old english coin. see rial.
royalist: an adherent of a king (as of charles i. in england, or of the bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government.
royalty: the state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty.-the person of a king or sovereign; majesty; as, in the presence of royalty.-an emblem of royalty; -- usually in the plural, meaning regalia.-kingliness; spirit of regal authority.-domain; province; sphere.-that which is due to a sovereign, as a seigniorage on gold and silver coined at the mint, metals taken from mines, etc.; the tax exacted in lieu of such share; imperiality.-a share of the product or profit (as of a mine, forest, etc.), reserved by the owner for permitting another to use the property.-hence (com.), a duty paid by a manufacturer to the owner of a patent or a copyright at a certain rate for each article manufactured; or, a percentage paid to the owner of an article by one who hires the use of it.
roynish: mangy; scabby; hence, mean; paltry; troublesome.
rub: to subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back and forth; as, to rub the flesh with the hand; to rub wood with sandpaper.-to move over the surface of (a body) with pressure and friction; to graze; to chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground.-to cause (a body) to move with pressure and friction along a surface; as, to rub the hand over the body.-to spread a substance thinly over; to smear.-to scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver.-to hinder; to cross; to thwart.-to move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost.-to fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore.-to move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world.-the act of rubbing; friction.-that which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch.-inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness.-something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub.-imperfection; failing; fault.-a chance.-a stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also rubstone.
ruba-dub: the sound of a drum when continuously beaten; hence, a clamorous, repeated sound; a clatter.
rubber: one who, or that which, rubs.-an instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning.-a coarse file, or the rough part of a file.-a whetstone; a rubstone.-an eraser, usually made of caoutchouc.-the cushion of an electrical machine.-one who performs massage, especially in a turkish bath.-something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub.-in some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist.-india rubber; caoutchouc.-an overshoe made of india rubber.
rubbish: waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.-of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.
rubble: water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.-rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash.-a mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.-the whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
rubella: an acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also german measles.
rubellite: a variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium.
ruberythrinic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. it is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained.
rubiaceous: of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (rubiaceae) named after the madder (rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and sierre leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms.
rubiacin: a substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.
rubianic: pertaining to, or derived from, rubian; specifically, designating an acid called also ruberythrinic acid.
rubican: colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses.
rubicon: a small river which separated italy from cisalpine gaul, the province alloted to julius caesar.
rubidine: a nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, c11h17n; also, any one of the group od metameric compounds of which rubidine is the type.
rubidium: a rare metallic element. it occurs quite widely, but in small quantities, and always combined. it is isolated as a soft yellowish white metal, analogous to potassium in most of its properties.  symbol rb.  atomic weight, 85.2.
rubiform: having the nature or quality of red; as, the rubiform rays of the sun.
rubiretin: one of the red dye products extracted from madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.
ruble: the unit of monetary value in russia.  it is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents. the silver ruble is a coin worth about 60 cents.