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- English Word Rood Definition The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
- English Word Roodebok Definition The pallah.
- English Word Roody Definition Rank in growth.
- English Word Roof Definition 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.
- English Word Roof Definition 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.
- English Word Roof Definition The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
- English Word Roof Definition To cover with a roof.
- English Word Roof Definition To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.
- English Word Roofed Definition of Roof
- English Word Roofer Definition One who puts on roofs.
- English Word Roofing Definition of Roof
- English Word Roofing Definition The act of covering with a roof.
- English Word Roofing Definition The materials of which a roof is composed; materials for a roof.
- English Word Roofing Definition Hence, the roof itself; figuratively, shelter.
- English Word Roofing Definition The wedging, as of a horse or car, against the top of an underground passage.
- English Word Roofless Definition Having no roof; as, a roofless house.
- English Word Roofless Definition Having no house or home; shelterless; homeless.
- English Word Rooflet Definition A small roof, covering, or shelter.
- English Word Rooftree Definition The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself.
- English Word Roofy Definition Having roofs.
- English Word Rook Definition Mist; fog. See Roke.
- English Word Rook Definition To squat; to ruck.
- English Word Rook Definition One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
- English Word Rook Definition 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.
- English Word Rook Definition A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
- English Word Rook Definition To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
- English Word Rooked Definition of Rook
- English Word Rookeries Definition of Rookery
- English Word Rookery Definition The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.
- English Word Rookery Definition A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc.