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A rhapsodist. [Obs.]

Same as Convolvuln.

A genus of shrubs or small trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; rosebay.

Redness; complexion. [Obs.] "His rode was red." Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.

An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.

A round-up. See Round-up. [Western U.S.]

The pallah.

A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.

A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments.

See Scrod.

One of the Sclerodermata.

A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.

The stony corals; the Madreporaria.

Of or pertaining to the Sclerodermata.

The hard integument of Crustacea.

Same as Scorpiones.

A young codfish, especially when cut open on the back and dressed. [Written also escrod.] [Local, U.S.]

Same as Holothurioidea.

f printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume.