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One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.

One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.

A word or phrase; a motto; a proverb; a wise saw. [Obs.] "This rede is rife." Spenser.

or subtilty in thought or language. "He makes another paragraph about our refining in controversy." Atterbury.

elling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move. It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire. J. H. Newman.

Wharton. -- Res judicata [L.] (Law), a thing adjudicated; a matter no longer open to controversy.

making clear; resolution; solution. "To give a full resolve of that which is so much controverted." Milton.

The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.

ave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early. He that would thrive, must rise by five. Old Proverb.

To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range). Fair Venusson that with thy cruel dart At that good knoght cunningly didst rove. Spenser.

A saying; a proverb; a maxim. His champions are the prophets and apostles, His weapons holy saws of sacred writ. Shak.

A speech; something said; an expression of opinion; a current story; a maxim or proverb. [Archaic or Colloq.] He no sooner said out his say, but up rises a cunning snap. L'Estrange. That strange palmer's boding say, That fell so ominous and drear Full on the object of his fear. Sir W. Scott.

That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb. Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled. Milton.

A rover or footpad; a prowling robber. In those days of highwaymen and scourers. Macaulay.

A pirate; a sea rover.

se of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies. Hooker.

To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court,…

uch, or little, for. -- To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of his proverbs." Chaucer. -- To set off. (a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of an estate. (b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish. They . . . set off the worst faces…

; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.

To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs. They . . . sighed forth proverbs. Shak. The gentle swain . . . sighs back her grief. Hoole.