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- English Word Root Definition To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.
- English Word Rootcap Definition A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.
- English Word Rooted Definition of Root
- English Word Rooted Definition Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart.
- English Word Rooter Definition One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
- English Word Rootery Definition A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.
- English Word Rooting Definition of Root
- English Word Rootless Definition Destitute of roots.
- English Word Rootlet Definition A radicle; a little root.
- English Word Rootstock Definition A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s/ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome.
- English Word Rooty Definition Full of roots; as, rooty ground.
- English Word Ropalic Definition See Rhopalic.
- English Word Rope Definition 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.
- English Word Rope Definition A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.
- English Word Rope Definition The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
- English Word Rope Definition To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
- English Word Rope Definition To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.
- English Word Rope Definition To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.
- English Word Rope Definition 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.
- English Word Rope Definition To lasso (a steer, horse).
- English Word Rope Definition To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.
- English Word Rope Definition To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.
- English Word Rope's-end Definition To punish with a rope's end.
- English Word Rope-yarn Definition the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.
- English Word Ropeband Definition A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar.
- English Word Roped Definition of Rope
- English Word Ropedancer Definition One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height.
- English Word Roper Definition A maker of ropes.
- English Word Roper Definition One who ropes goods; a packer.
- English Word Roper Definition One fit to be hanged.