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- English Word Ropery Definition A place where ropes are made.
- English Word Ropery Definition Tricks deserving the halter; roguery.
- English Word Ropewalk Definition A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.
- English Word Ropewalker Definition A ropedancer.
- English Word Ropily Definition In a ropy manner; in a viscous or glutinous manner.
- English Word Ropiness Definition Quality of being ropy; viscosity.
- English Word Roping Definition of Rope
- English Word Ropish Definition Somewhat ropy.
- English Word Ropy Definition capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.
- English Word Roquelaure Definition A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century.
- English Word Roquet Definition To hit, as another's ball, with one's own ball.
- English Word Roquet Definition To hit another's ball with one's own.
- English Word Roral Definition Of or pertaining to dew; consisting of dew; dewy.
- English Word Roration Definition A falling of dew.
- English Word Roric Definition Of or pertaining to dew; resembling dew; dewy.
- English Word Rorid Definition Dewy; bedewed.
- English Word Roriferous Definition generating or producing dew.
- English Word Rorifluent Definition Flowing with dew.
- English Word Rorqual Definition 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.
- English Word Rorulent Definition Full of, or abounding in, dew.
- English Word Rorulent Definition Having the surface appearing as if dusty, or covered with fine dew.
- English Word Rory Definition Dewy.
- English Word Rosaceous Definition 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.
- English Word Rosaceous Definition Like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla.
- English Word Rosaceous Definition Of a pure purpish pink color.
- English Word Rosacic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also lithic acid) found in certain red precipitates of urine. See Uric.
- English Word Rosalgar Definition realgar.
- English Word Rosalia Definition A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.
- English Word Rosaniline Definition 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.
- English Word Rosarian Definition A cultivator of roses.