AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
romantic: of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.-entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.-of or pertaining to the style of the christian and popular literature of the middle ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets.-characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.
romanticism: a fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.
romaunt: a romantic story in verse; as, the "romaunt of the rose."
rombowline: old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear.
romeite: a mineral of a hyacinth or honey-yellow color, occuring in square octahedrons. it is an antimonate of calcium.
romeward: toward rome, or toward the roman catholic church.-tending or directed toward rome, or toward the roman catholic church.
romic: a method of notation for all spoken sounds, proposed by mr. sweet; -- so called because it is based on the common roman-letter alphabet. it is like the palaeotype of mr. ellis in the general plan, but simpler.
romish: belonging or relating to rome, or to the roman catholic church; -- frequently used in a disparaging sense; as, the romish church; the romish religion, ritual, or ceremonies.
romp: to play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.-a girl who indulges in boisterous play.-rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport.
rompu: broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, or the like.
roncador: any one of several species of california sciaenoid food fishes, especially roncador stearnsi, which is an excellent market fish, and the red roncador (corvina, / johnius, saturna).
ronchil: an american marine food fish (bathymaster signatus) of the north pacific coast, allied to the tilefish.
ronde: a kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.
rondeau: a species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule.-see rondo, 1.
rondel: a small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.-same as rondeau.-specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth.
rondle: a rondeau.-a round mass, plate, or disk; especially (metal.), the crust or scale which forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible.
rondo: a composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.-see rondeau, 1.
rood: a representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with christ hanging on it.-a measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.-the fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
roof: the cover of any building, including the roofing (see roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. in the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. it is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.-that which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.-the surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.-to cover with a roof.-to inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.
roofing: of roof-the act of covering with a roof.-the materials of which a roof is composed; materials for a roof.-hence, the roof itself; figuratively, shelter.-the wedging, as of a horse or car, against the top of an underground passage.
roofless: having no roof; as, a roofless house.-having no house or home; shelterless; homeless.
rook: mist; fog. see roke.-to squat; to ruck.-one of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.-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.-a trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.-to cheat; to defraud by cheating.
rookery: the breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.-a breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc.-the breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.-a dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.-a brothel.
room: 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.-a particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.-especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.-place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated.-possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.-to occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.-spacious; roomy.
roomful: abounding with room or rooms; roomy.-as much or many as a room will hold; as, a roomful of men.
roominess: the quality or state of being roomy; spaciousness; as, the roominess of a hall.
roommate: one of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.
roomy: having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck.
roorbach: a defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue.
roost: roast.-see roust, v. t.-the pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.-a collection of fowls roosting together.-to sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.-fig.; to lodge; to rest; to sleep.
root: to turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.-hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.-to turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.-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.-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.-an edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.-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.-an ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.-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.-the cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.-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.-the fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.-the lowest place, position, or part.-the time which to reckon in making calculations.-to fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.-to be firmly fixed; to be established.-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.-to tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.
rootcap: a mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.
rootery: a pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.
rootstock: a perennial underground stem, producing leafly s/ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome.
rope: 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.-a row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.-the small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.-to be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.-to bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.-to connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.-to partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.-to lasso (a steer, horse).-to draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.-to prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.
rope-yarn: the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.
ropeband: a small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar.
ropedancer: one who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height.
roper: a maker of ropes.-one who ropes goods; a packer.-one fit to be hanged.
ropery: a place where ropes are made.-tricks deserving the halter; roguery.
ropewalk: a long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.
ropy: capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.
roquelaure: a cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century.
roquet: to hit, as another's ball, with one's own ball.-to hit another's ball with one's own.
rorqual: a very large north atlantic whalebone whale (physalus antiquorum, or balaenoptera physalus). it has a dorsal fin, and strong longitudinal folds on the throat and belly. called also razorback.
rorulent: full of, or abounding in, dew.-having the surface appearing as if dusty, or covered with fine dew.
rosaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (rosaceae) of which the rose is the type. it includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service trees, and quinces.-like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla.-of a pure purpish pink color.
rosacic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also lithic acid) found in certain red precipitates of urine. see uric.
rosalia: a form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.
rosaniline: a complex nitrogenous base, c20h21n3o, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red salts. these salts are essential components of many of the socalled aniline dyes, as fuchsine, aniline red, etc. by extension, any one of the series of substances derived from, or related to, rosaniline proper.
rosary: a bed of roses, or place where roses grow.-a series of prayers (see note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted.-a chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.-a coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in ireland in the 13th century for a penny.
roscoelite: a green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. it is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.
rose: of rise-imp. of rise.-a flower and shrub of any species of the genus rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere-a knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe.-a rose window. see rose window, below.-a perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump.-the erysipelas.-the card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments.-the color of a rose; rose-red; pink.-a diamond. see rose diamond, below.-to render rose-colored; to redden; to flush.-to perfume, as with roses.
rose-colored: having the color of a pink rose; rose-pink; of a delicate pink color.-uncommonly beautiful; hence, extravagantly fine or pleasing; alluring; as, rose-colored anticipations.
rose-cut: cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds and other precious stones. see rose diamond, under rose.  cf. brilliant, n.
rose-pink: having a pink color like that of the rose, or like the pigment called rose pink. see rose pink, under rose.-disposed to clothe everything with roseate hues; hence, sentimental.
rose-red: red as a rose; specifically (zool.), of a pure purplish red color.
rose-rial: a name of several english gold coins struck in different reigns and having having different values; a rose noble.
rose-water: having the odor of rose water; hence, affectedly nice or delicate; sentimental.
roseate: full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.-resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming; as, roseate beauty; her roseate lips.
rosebay: the oleander.-any shrub of the genus rhododendron.-an herb (epilobium spicatum) with showy purple flowers, common in europe and north america; -- called also great willow herb.
rosedrop: a lozenge having a rose flavor.-a kind of earring.-a ruddy eruption upon the nose caused by drinking ardent spirits; a grog blossom.
rosefinch: any one of numerous species of asiatic finches of the genera carpodacus, and propasser, and allied genera, in which the male is more or less colored with rose red.
rosefish: a large marine scorpaenoid food fish (sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of europe and america. called also red perch, hemdurgan, norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt.
rosehead: see rose, n., 4.-a many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head.
roselite: a hydrous arsenite of cobalt, occuring in small red crystals, allied to erythrite.
rosella: a beautiful australian parrakeet (platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. the head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.
roselle: a malvaceous plant (hibiscus sabdariffa) cultivated in the east and west indies for its fleshy calyxes, which are used for making tarts and jelly and an acid drink.
rosemary: a labiate shrub (rosmarinus officinalis) with narrow grayish leaves, growing native in the southern part of france, spain, and italy, also in asia minor and in china. it has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. it is used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy.
roseo-: a prefix (also used adjectively) signifying rose-red; specifically used to designate certain rose-red compounds (called roseo-cobaltic compounds) of cobalt with ammonia.  cf. luteo-.
roseola: a rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash.
roseroot: a fleshy-leaved herb (rhodiola rosea); rosewort; -- so called because the roots have the odor of roses.
rosery: a place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. see rosary, 1.
rosetta wood: an east indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. it is occasionally used for cabinetwork.
rosette: an imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.-an ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration.-a red color. see roset.-a rose burner. see under rose.-any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. see illust. of spicule, and sand dollar, under sand.-a flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard.
rosewood: a valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera dalbergia and machaerium. the finest kind is from brazil, and is said to be from the dalbergia nigra.
roseworm: the larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially cacaecia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds.
rosicrucian: one who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years.-of or pertaining to the rosicrucians, or their arts.
rosin: the hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony.-to rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.
rosinweed: the compass plant. see under compass.-a name given in california to various composite plants which secrete resins or have a resinous smell.
rosmarine: dew from the sea; sea dew.-rosemary.-a fabulous sea animal which was reported to climb by means of its teeth to the tops of rocks to feed upon the dew.
rosolic: pertaining to, or designating, a complex red dyestuff (called rosolic acid) which is analogous to rosaniline and aurin. it is produced by oxidizing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, c20h16o3, which forms weak salts with bases, and stable ones with acids.  called also methyl aurin, and, formerly, corallin.
ross: the rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees.-to divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark.
rossel current: a portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westward from the fiji islands to new guinea.
rostellate: having a rostellum, or small beak; terminating in a beak.
rostellum: a small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm.
roster: a register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.
rostral: of or pertaining to the beak or snout of an animal, or the beak of a ship; resembling a rostrum, esp., the rostra at rome, or their decorations.
rostrated: having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.-furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys.
rostrifera: a division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.
rostrum: the beak or head of a ship.-the beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in rome for the use of public orators.-hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.-any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.-the beak, or sucking mouth parts, of hemiptera.-the snout of a gastropod mollusk. see illust. of littorina.-the anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.-same as rostellum.-the pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.-a pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
rosy: resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.
rot: to undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.-figuratively: to perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.-to make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.-to expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.-process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.-a disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. see bitter rot, black rot, etc., below.-a fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. it is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. see 1st fluke, 2.
rota: an ecclesiastical court of rome, called also rota romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. it consists of twelve members.-a short-lived political club established in 1659 by j.harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of parliament.-a species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the middle ages in church music; -- written also rotta.
rotalite: any fossil foraminifer of the genus rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. see illust. under rhizopod.
rotary: turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion.
rotate: having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.-to turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.-to perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.-to cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.-to cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
rotated: of rotate-turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate.
rotation: the act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the sun is a revolution.-any return or succesion in a series.-pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
rotator: that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.-a revolving reverberatory furnace.
rotatory: turning as on an axis; rotary.-going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles.-producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, the rotatory power of bodies on light. see the note under polarization.-a rotifer.