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Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler. [Eng.]

Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. "One riding apparitor." Ayliffe.

may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.

ies, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole material laid in place and ready for travel.

Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.

A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads. A sound, swift, well-fed hunter and roadster. Thackeray.

A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages. Shak.

king with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.

A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. [Obs.] "A route of ratones [rats]." Piers Plowman. "A great solemn route." Chaucer. And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. Chaucer. A rout of people there assembled were. Spenser.

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march. Wide through the furzy field their route they take. Gay.

To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago.

urney, a distance of about a mile, which, under Rabbinical law, the Jews were allowed to travel on the Sabbath.

Seriously; soberly; gravely. [Obs.] To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame Or our neglect, we lost her as we came. Milton.

a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.

A convoy or guard to protect a traveler or property.

urse of pursuit; track of discovery. He gained the observations of innumerable ages, and traveled upon the same scent into Ethiopia. Sir W. Temple.

erforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.

The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.

A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.

shoal; a flat; a shelf. A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. Bacon. Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. Dryden.