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- English Word Roc Definition A monstrous bird of Arabian mythology.
- English Word Rocambole Definition A name of Allium Scorodoprasum and A. Ascalonium, two kinds of garlic, the latter of which is also called shallot.
- English Word Roccellic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the oxalic series found in archil (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), and other lichens, and extracted as a white crystalline substance C17H32O4.
- English Word Roccellin Definition A red dyestuff, used as a substitute for cochineal, archil, etc. It consists of the sodium salt of a complex azo derivative of naphtol.
- English Word Roche Definition Rock.
- English Word Roche alum Definition A kind of alum occuring in small fragments; -- so called from Rocca, in Syria, whence alum is said to have been obtained; -- also called rock alum.
- English Word Roche moutonnee Definition See Sheepback.
- English Word Rochelime Definition Lime in the lump after it is burned; quicklime.
- English Word Rochelle Definition A seaport town in France.
- English Word Rochet Definition A linen garment resembling the surplise, but with narrower sleeves, also without sleeves, worn by bishops, and by some other ecclesiastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies.
- English Word Rochet Definition A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
- English Word Rochet Definition The red gurnard, or gurnet. See Gurnard.
- English Word Roching cask Definition A tank in which alum is crystallized from a solution.
- English Word Rock Definition See Roc.
- English Word Rock Definition A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
- English Word Rock Definition A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.
- English Word Rock Definition Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.
- English Word Rock Definition That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.
- English Word Rock Definition Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
- English Word Rock Definition The striped bass. See under Bass.