Romanize Ro"man·ize intransitive verb 1. To use Latin words and idioms. "Apishly Romanizing ." Milton.

2. To conform to Roman Catholic opinions, customs, or modes of speech.

Romanizer Ro"man·i`zer noun One who Romanizes.

Romansch Ro·mansch" noun [ Grisons rumansch , rumonsch , romonsch . See Romance .] The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin. [ Written also Romansch , and Rumonsch .]

Romant Ro·mant" noun A romaunt. [ Obsolete]

Romantic Ro·man"tic adjective [ French romantique , from Old French romant . See Romance .] 1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.

Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more absurd, and undeed romantic , than such a persuasion?

South.

Zeal for the good of one's country a party of men have represented as chimerical and romantic .

Addison.

2. Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.

3. Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets.

4. Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.

Syn. -- Sentimental; fanciful; fantastic; fictitious; extravagant; wild; chimerical. See Sentimental .

The romantic drama . See under Drama .

Romantical Ro·man"tic·al adjective Romantic.

Romanticaly Ro·man"tic·al·y adverb In a romantic manner.

Romanticism Ro·man"ti·cism noun [ CF. Italian romanticismo , French romantisme , romanticisme .] A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi...val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.

He [ Lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from pseudo-classicism in poetry, and to have been thus unconsciously the founder of romanticism .

Lowell.

Romanticist Ro·man"ti·cist noun One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.

Romanticly Ro·man"tic·ly adverb Romantically. [ R.] Strype.

Romanticness Ro·man"tic·ness noun The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. Richardson.

Romany Rom"a·ny noun [ Gypsy romano , romani , adj., gypsy; confer rom husband.] 1. A gypsy.

2. The language spoken among themselves by the gypsies. [ Written also Rommany .]

Romanza Ro·man"za noun [ Italian ] See Romance , 5.

Romaunt Ro·maunt" noun [ See Romance .] A romantic story in verse; as, the " Romaunt of the Rose."

O, hearken, loving hearts and bold,
Unto my wild romaunt .

Mrs. Browning.

Romble Rom"ble v.& noun Rumble. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Rombowline Rom·bow"line noun [ Etymol. uncertain.] (Nautical) Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear. [ Written also rumbowline .]

Rome penny, Rome scot Rome" pen`ny, Rome" scot` See Peter pence , under Peter .

Romeine, Romeite Ro"me·ine, Ro"me·ite noun [ French roméine . So calledafter the French mineralogist Romé L'Isle.] (Min.) A mineral of a hyacinth or honey-yellow color, occuring in square octahedrons. It is an antimonate of calcium.

Romekin Rome"kin noun [ CF. Rummer .] A drinking cup. [ Written also romkin .] [ Obsolete] Halliwell.

Romeward Rome"ward adverb Toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church.

Romeward Rome"ward adjective Tending or directed toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church.

To analyze the crisis in its Anglican rather than in its Romeward aspect.

Gladstone.

Romic Rom"ic noun A method of notation for all spoken sounds, proposed by Mr. Sweet; -- so called because it is based on the common Roman -letter alphabet. It is like the palæotype of Mr. Ellis in the general plan, but simpler.

Romish Rom"ish adjective Belonging or relating to Rome, or to the Roman Catholic Church; -- frequently used in a disparaging sense; as, the Romish church; the Romish religion, ritual, or ceremonies.

Romist Rom"ist noun A Roman Catholic. [ R.] South.

Romp Romp intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Romped ; present participle & verbal noun Romping .] [ A variant of ramp . See Ramp to leap, Rampallian .] To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

Romp Romp noun 1. A girl who indulges in boisterous play.

2. Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport.

While romp -loving miss
Is hauled about in gallantry robust.

Thomson.

Romping Romp"ing adjective Inclined to romp; indulging in romps.

A little romping girl from boarding school.

W. Irving.

Rompingly Romp"ing·ly adverb In a romping manner.

Rompish Romp"ish adjective Given to rude play; inclined to romp.

--- Romp"ish , adverb -- Romp"ish*ness , noun

Rompu Rom"pu adjective [ French rompu , past participle of rompre to breeak, Latin rumpere . See Rupture .] (Her.) Broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, or the like.

Roncador Ron`ca·dor" noun [ Spanish , a snorer, from roncar to snore. So called in allusion to the grunting noise made by them on being taken from the water. ] (Zoology) Any one of several species of California sciænoid food fishes, especially Roncador Stearnsi , which is an excellent market fish, and the red roncador ( Corvina, or Johnius, saturna ).

Ronchil Ron"chil noun [ Confer Spanish ronquillo slightly hoarse.] (Zoology) An American marine food fish ( Bathymaster signatus ) of the North Pacific coast, allied to the tilefish. [ Written also ronquil .]

Ronco Ron"co noun [ Spanish ronco hoarse.] (Zoology) See Croaker , noun , 2. (a) . [ Texas]

Rondache Ron`dache" noun [ French] (Anc. Armor.) A circular shield carried by foot soldiers.

Ronde Ronde noun [ French] (Print.) A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.

Rondeau Ron·deau" noun [ French See Roundel .] [ Written also rondo .] 1. A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule.

» When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the 17th century the approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses with a refrain. Encyc. Brit.

2. (Mus.) See Rondo , 1.

Rondel Ron"del noun [ Confer Rondeau , Roundel .] 1. (Fort.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. [ Obsolete]

2. [ French] (a) Same as Rondeau . (b) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth. E. W. Gosse.

Rondeletia Ron`de·le"ti·a noun [ New Latin So named after William Rondelet , a French naturalist.] (Botany) A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers.

Rondle Ron"dle noun [ Confer Rondel .] 1. A rondeau. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

2. A round mass, plate, or disk; especially (Metal.) , the crust or scale which forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible.

Rondo Ron"do noun [ Italian rondò , from French rondeau . See Rondeau .] 1. (Mus.) A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. "The Rondo -form was the earliest and most frequent definite mold for musical construction." Grove.

2. (Poetry) See Rondeau , 1.

Rondure Ron"dure noun [ Confer French rondeur roundness.] 1. A round; a circle. [ Obsolete] Shak.

2. Roundness; plumpness. [ R.]

High-kirtled for the chase, and what was shown
Of maiden rondure , like the rose half-blown.

Lowell.

Rong Rong obsolete imperfect & past participle of Ring . Chaucer.

Rong Rong noun Rung (of a ladder). [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Rongeur Ron`geur" noun [ French, from ronger to gnaw.] (Surg.) An instrument for removing small rough portions of bone.

Ronin Ro"nin" noun [ Jap. rō- nin , from Chin. lang profligate, lawless + jên (old sound nīn ) man.] In Japan, under the feudal system, a samurai who had renounced his clan or who had been discharged or ostracized and had become a wanderer without a lord; an outcast; an outlaw.

Ronion, Ronyon Ron"ion, Ron"yon noun [ French rogne scab, mange.] A mangy or scabby creature.

"Aroint thee, with!" the rump-fed ronyon cries.

Shak.

Ronne Ron"ne obsolete imperfect plural , and Ron"nen obsolete past participle of Renne , to run. Chaucer.

Ront Ront noun [ See Runt .] A runt. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Rood Rood (rōd) noun [ Anglo-Saxon rōd a cross; akin to Old Saxon rōda , Dutch roede rod, German ruthe , rute , Old High German ruota . Confer Rod a measure.] 1. A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.

» Generally, the Trinity is represented, the Father as an elderly man fully clothed, with a nimbus around his head, and holding the cross on which the Son is represented as crucified, the Holy Spirit descending in the form of a dove near the Son's head. Figures of the Virgin Mary and of St. John are often placed near the principal figures.

Savior, in thine image seen
Bleeding on that precious rood .

Wordsworth.

2. A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole. [ Prov. Eng.]

3. The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.

By the rood , by the cross; -- a phrase formerly used in swearing. "No, by the rood , not so." Shak. -- Rood beam (Architecture) , a beam across the chancel of a church, supporting the rood. -- Rood loft (Architecture) , a loft or gallery, in a church, on which the rood and its appendages were set up to view. Gwilt. -- Rood screen (Architecture) , a screen, between the choir and the body of the church, over which the rood was placed. Fairholt. -- Rood tower (Architecture) , a tower at the intersection of the nave and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it was called also rood steeple . Weale. -- Rood tree , the cross. [ Obsolete] "Died upon the rood tree ." Gower.

Roodebok Roo"de·bok noun [ Dutch rood red + bok buck.] (Zoology) The pallah.

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