Rootcap (rōt"kăp`) noun (Botany) A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.

Rooted adjective Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart. "A rooted sorrow." Shak.

-- Root"ed*ly , adverb -- Root"ed*ness , noun

Rooter noun One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.

Rooter noun One who roots, or applauds. [ Slang, U. S.]

Rootery noun A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.

Rootless adjective Destitute of roots.

Rootlet noun A radicle; a little root.

Rootstock noun (Botany) A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s...ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome.

Rooty adjective Full of roots; as, rooty ground.

Ropalic adjective See Rhopalic .

Rope noun [ Anglo-Saxon rāp ; akin to Dutch reep , German reif ring hoop, Icelandic reip rope, Swedish rep , Danish reb , reeb Goth. skauda raip latchet.]
1. A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord , line , and string , only in its size. See Cordage .

2. A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.

3. plural The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.

Rope ladder , a ladder made of ropes. -- Rope mat ., a mat made of cordage, or strands of old rope. -- Rope of sand , something of no cohession or fiber; a feeble union or tie; something not to be relied upon. -- Rope pump , a pump in which a rapidly running endless rope raises water by the momentum communicated to the water by its adhesion to the rope. -- Rope transmission (Machinery) , a method of transmitting power, as between distant places, by means of endless ropes running over grooved pulleys. -- Rope's end , a piece of rope; especially, one used as a lash in inflicting punishment. -- To give one rope , to give one liberty or license; to let one go at will uncheked.

Rope intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Roped ; present participle & verbal noun Roping .] To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.

Let us not hang like roping icicles
Upon our houses' thatch.

Shak.

Rope transitive verb
1. To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods. Hence: --

2. To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.

3. To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in , or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.

4. To lasso (a steer, horse). [ Colloq. U.S.]

5. To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters . [ Slang, U.S.]

6. To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing. [ Racing Slang, Eng.]

Rope-yarn noun the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.

Rope's-end transitive verb To punish with a rope's end.

Ropeband noun (Nautical) A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar. [ Written also roband , and robbin .]

Ropedancer noun One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height. -- Rope"dan`cing , noun

Roper noun
1. A maker of ropes. P. Plowman.

2. One who ropes goods; a packer.

3. One fit to be hanged. [ Old Slang] Douce.

Ropery noun
1. A place where ropes are made.

2. Tricks deserving the halter; roguery. [ Obsolete] "Saucy merchant . . . so full of his ropery ." Shak.

Ropewalk adjective A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.

Ropewalker noun A ropedancer.

Ropily adverb In a ropy manner; in a viscous or glutinous manner.

Ropiness noun Quality of being ropy; viscosity.

Ropish adjective Somewhat ropy.

Ropy adjective capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.

Roque (rōk) noun [ Abbr. from Croquet .] A form of croquet modified for greater accuracy of play. The court has a wood border often faced with rubber, used as a cushion in bank shots. The balls are 3¼ in. in diameter, the cage (center arches or wickets) 3⅜ in. wide, the other arches 3½ in. wide.

Roquefort cheese, Roquefort noun A highly flavored blue-molded cheese, made at Roquefort, department of Aveyron, France. It is made from milk of ewes, sometimes with cow's milk added, and is cured in caves. Improperly, a cheese made in imitation of it.

Roquelaure noun [ F.; so called after Duc de Roquelaure , in the reign of Louis XIV.] A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century. [ Written also roquelo .]

Roquet transitive verb [ Etymol. uncertain] (Croquet) To hit, as another's ball, with one's own ball.

Roquet intransitive verb To hit another's ball with one's own.

Roral adjective [ Latin ros , roris , dew.] Of or pertaining to dew; consisting of dew; dewy. [ R.] M. Green.

Roration noun [ Latin roratio , from rorare to drop dew, from ros dew.] A falling of dew. [ R.]

Roric adjective [ Latin ros , roris , dew.] Of or pertaining to dew; resembling dew; dewy.

Roric figures (Physics) , figures which appear upon a polished surface, as glass, when objects which have been near to, or in contact with, the surface are removed and the surface breathed upon; -- called also Moser's images .

Rorid adjective [ Latin roridus , from ros , roris , dew.] Dewy; bedewed. [ R.] T. Granger.

Roriferous adjective [ Latin rorifer ; ros , roris , dew + ferre to bear: confer French rorifère .] generating or producing dew. [ R.]

Rorifluent adjective [ Latin ros , roris , dew + fluens , present participle of fluere to flow.] Flowing with dew. [ R.]

Rorqual noun [ Norw. rorqualus a whale with folds.] (Zoology) A very large North Atlantic whalebone whale ( Physalus antiquorum , or Balænoptera physalus ). It has a dorsal fin, and strong longitudinal folds on the throat and belly. Called also razorback .

» It is one of the largest of the whales, somethimes becoming nearly one hundred feet long, but it is more slender than the right whales, and is noted for its swiftness. The name is sometimes applied to other related species of finback whales.

Rorulent adjective [ Latin rorulentus , from ros , roris , dew.]
1. Full of, or abounding in, dew. [ R.]

2. (Zoology) Having the surface appearing as if dusty, or covered with fine dew.

Rory adjective [ Latin ros , roris , dew.] Dewy. [ R.]

And shook his wings with rory May-dew wet.

Fairfax.

Rosaceous adjective [ Latin rosaceus , from rosa rose.]
1. (Botany) (a) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants ( Rosaceæ ) 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. (b) Like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla.

2. Of a pure purpish pink color.

Rosacic adjective [ See Rosaceous .] (Old med. Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also lithic acid ) found in certain red precipitates of urine. See Uric . [ Obsolete]

Rosalgar noun realgar. [ Obsolete] chaucer.

Rosalia noun [ Confer French rosalie .] (Mus.) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.

Rosaniline noun [ Rose + aniline .] (Chemistry) A complex nitrogenous base, C ₂₀ H ₂₁ N ₃ O, 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.

Rosarian noun A cultivator of roses.

Rosary noun ; plural Rosaries . [ Late Latin rosarium a string of beads, Latin rosarium a place planted with roses, rosa a rose: confer French rosaire . See Rose .]
1. A bed of roses, or place where roses grow. "Thick rosaries of scented thorn." Tennyson.

2. (R.C.Ch.) A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted.

His idolized book, and the whole rosary of his prayers.

Milton.

» A rosary consists of fifteen decades. Each decade contains ten Ave Marias marked by small beads, preceded by a Paternoster , marked by a larger bead, and concluded by a Gloria Patri . Five decades make a chaplet , a third part of the rosary. Bp. Fitzpatrick.

3. A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.

Every day propound to yourself a rosary or chaplet of good works to present to God at night.

Jer. Taylor.

4. A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.

Rosary shell (Zoology) , any marine gastropod shell of the genus Monodonta . They are top-shaped, bright-colored and pearly.

Roscid adjective [ Latin roscidus , from ros , roris , dew.] Containing, or consisting of, dew; dewy. [ R.] Bacon.

Roscoelite noun [ From an English chemist, H.E. Roscoe + -lite .] (Min.) A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.