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- English Word Rockfish Definition An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.
- English Word Rockiness Definition The state or quality of being rocky.
- English Word Rocking Definition Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking.
- English Word Rocking Definition of Rock
- English Word Rocking-chair Definition A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.
- English Word Rocking-horse Definition The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.
- English Word Rocking-stone Definition A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force.
- English Word Rocklay Definition See Rokelay.
- English Word Rockless Definition Being without rocks.
- English Word Rockling Definition Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels.
- English Word Rockrose Definition A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European H. vulgare and the American frostweed, H. Canadense.
- English Word Rocksucker Definition A lamprey.
- English Word Rockweed Definition Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus.
- English Word Rockwood Definition Ligniform asbestus; also, fossil wood.
- English Word Rockwork Definition Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
- English Word Rockwork Definition A rockery.
- English Word Rocky Definition Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.
- English Word Rocky Definition Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield.
- English Word Rocky Definition Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.
- English Word Rocoa Definition The orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto.
- English Word Rococo Definition A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
- English Word Rococo Definition Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.
- English Word Rod Definition A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
- English Word Rod Definition An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.
- English Word Rod Definition A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
- English Word Rod Definition A support for a fishing line; a fish pole.
- English Word Rod Definition A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar.
- English Word Rod Definition An instrument for measuring.
- English Word Rod Definition A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
- English Word Roddy Definition Full of rods or twigs.