Romanizer noun One who Romanizes.

Romansch 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 noun A romaunt. [ Obsolete]

Romantic 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 adjective Romantic.

Romanticaly adverb In a romantic manner.

Romanticism 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 noun One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.

Romanticly adverb Romantically. [ R.] Strype.

Romanticness noun The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. Richardson.

Romany 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 noun [ Italian ] See Romance , 5.

Romaunt 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 v.& noun Rumble. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

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

Rome penny, Rome scot See Peter pence , under Peter .

Romeine, Romeite 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 noun [ CF. Rummer .] A drinking cup. [ Written also romkin .] [ Obsolete] Halliwell.

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

Romeward 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 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 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 noun A Roman Catholic. [ R.] South.

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 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 adjective Inclined to romp; indulging in romps.

A little romping girl from boarding school.

W. Irving.

Rompingly adverb In a romping manner.

Rompish adjective Given to rude play; inclined to romp.

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

Rompu 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 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 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 noun [ Spanish ronco hoarse.] (Zoology) See Croaker , noun , 2. (a) . [ Texas]

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

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 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 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 noun [ New Latin So named after William Rondelet , a French naturalist.] (Botany) A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers.

Rondle 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 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 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 obsolete imperfect & past participle of Ring . Chaucer.

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

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

Ronin 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 noun [ French rogne scab, mange.] A mangy or scabby creature.

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

Shak.

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

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