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

nce upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash. -- Ro*se"o*lous, a.

A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.

Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled. Dana.

A West Indian plant (Alternanthera polygonoides) somewhat resembling burstwort.

dwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.

A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers.

color. It is near zoisite in composition, and in part, at least, has been produced by the alteration of feldspar.

Psalter. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Psaltery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A psaltery. [Obs.] Dryden.

cooked with crumbs. Scalloped oysters (Cookery), opened oysters baked in a deep dish with alternate layers of bread or cracker crumbs, seasoned with pepper, nutmeg, and butter. This was at first done in scallop shells.

ions in parallel position, and in sometimes of secondary origin. Schiller spar (Min.), an altered variety of enstatite, exhibiting, in certain positions, a bronzelike luster.

A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie.

One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are gener…

To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate. [R.] In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill. Fuller. Sin is seconded with sin. South.

betray confidence; secretive. [R.] Secret Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter. Shak.

A plant (Ludwigia alternifolia) which has somewhat cubical or box-shaped capsules.

A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.

ey are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.