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rowel | a little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits. |
rowel | a roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery. |
roweled | of rowel |
rowelled | of rowel |
roweling | of rowel |
rowelling | of rowel |
rowel | to insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into . |
rowel | bone see rewel bone. |
rowen | a stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle. |
rowen | the second growth of grass in a season; aftermath. |
rower | one who rows with an oar. |
rowett | see rowen. |
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. |
rown | see roun. |
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. |
roy | a king. |
roy | royal. |
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. |
royal | noble; generous; magnificent; princely. |
royal | under the patronage of royality; holding a charter granted by the sovereign; as, the royal academy of arts; the royal society. |
royal | printing and writing papers of particular sizes. see under paper, n. |
royal | a small sail immediately above the topgallant sail. |
royal | one of the upper or distal branches of an antler, as the third and fourth tynes of the antlers of a stag. |
royal | a small mortar. |
royal | 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. |
royal | an old english coin. see rial. |
royalet | a petty or powerless king. |
royalism | the principles or conduct of royalists. |
royalist | an adherent of a king ; one attached to monarchical government. |
royalization | the act of making loyal to a king. |
royalize | to make royal. |
royally | in a royal or kingly manner; like a king; as becomes a king. |
royalties | of royalty |
royalty | the state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty. |
royalty | the person of a king or sovereign; majesty; as, in the presence of royalty. |
royalty | an emblem of royalty; -- usually in the plural, meaning regalia. |
royalty | kingliness; spirit of regal authority. |
royalty | domain; province; sphere. |
royalty | 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. |
royalty | a share of the product or profit , reserved by the owner for permitting another to use the property. |
royalty | hence , 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. |
royne | to bite; to gnaw. |
roynish | mangy; scabby; hence, mean; paltry; troublesome. |
royster | alt. of roysterer |
roysterer | same as roister, roisterer. |
royston | crow see hooded crow, under hooded. |
roytelet | a little king. |
roytish | wild; irregular. |
rubbed | of rub |
rubbing | of rub |
rub | to subject 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. |
rub | to move over the surface of with pressure and friction; to graze; to chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground. |
rub | to cause to move with pressure and friction along a surface; as, to rub the hand over the body. |
rub | to spread a substance thinly over; to smear. |
rub | to scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver. |
rub | to hinder; to cross; to thwart. |
rub | to move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost. |
rub | to fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore. |
rub | to move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world. |
rub | the act of rubbing; friction. |
rub | 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. |
rub | inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness. |
rub | something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub. |
rub | imperfection; failing; fault. |
rub | a chance. |
rub | 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. |
rubato | robbed; borrowed. |
rubbage | rubbish. |
rubber | one who, or that which, rubs. |
rubber | an instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning. |
rubber | a coarse file, or the rough part of a file. |
rubber | a whetstone; a rubstone. |
rubber | an eraser, usually made of caoutchouc. |
rubber | the cushion of an electrical machine. |
rubber | one who performs massage, especially in a turkish bath. |
rubber | something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub. |
rubber | 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. |
rubber | india rubber; caoutchouc. |
rubber | an overshoe made of india rubber. |
rubbidge | rubbish. |
rubbing | a. & n. from rub, v. |
rubbish | waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris. |
rubbish | 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. |
rubble | 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. |
rubble | a mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. |
rubble | the whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. |
rubblestone | see rubble, 1 and 2. |
rubblework | masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape. |
rubbly | relating to, or containing, rubble. |
rubedinous | reddish. |
rubefacient | making red. |
rubefacient | an external application which produces redness of the skin. |
rubefaction | the act or process of making red. |
rubelet | a little ruby. |
rubella | an acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also german measles. |
rubelle | a red color used in enameling. |
rubellite | a variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium. |