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- English Word Rowel Definition A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.
- English Word Rowel Definition A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.
- English Word Rowel Definition To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse).
- English Word Rowel bone Definition See rewel bone.
- English Word Roweled Definition of Rowel
- English Word Roweling Definition of Rowel
- English Word Rowelled Definition of Rowel
- English Word Rowelling Definition of Rowel
- English Word Rowen Definition A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.
- English Word Rowen Definition The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath.
- English Word Rower Definition One who rows with an oar.
- English Word Rowett Definition See Rowen.
- English Word Rowing Definition of Row
- English Word Rowlock Definition 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.
- English Word Rown Definition see Roun.
- English Word Rown Definition To whisper.
- English Word Rowport Definition An opening in the side of small vessels of war, near the surface of the water, to facilitate rowing in calm weather.
- English Word Roxburgh Definition 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.
- English Word Roy Definition A king.
- English Word Roy Definition Royal.
- English Word Royal Definition 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.
- English Word Royal Definition Noble; generous; magnificent; princely.
- English Word Royal Definition Under the patronage of royality; holding a charter granted by the sovereign; as, the Royal Academy of Arts; the Royal Society.
- English Word Royal Definition Printing and writing papers of particular sizes. See under paper, n.
- English Word Royal Definition A small sail immediately above the topgallant sail.
- English Word Royal Definition One of the upper or distal branches of an antler, as the third and fourth tynes of the antlers of a stag.
- English Word Royal Definition A small mortar.
- English Word Royal Definition 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.
- English Word Royal Definition An old English coin. See Rial.
- English Word Royalet Definition A petty or powerless king.