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Rocket larkspur. See below. Dyer's Rocket. (Bot.) See Dyer's broom, under Broom. -- Rocket larkspur (Bot.), an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes (Delphinium Ajacis). -- Sea rocket (Bot.), either of two fleshy cruciferous plants (Cakile maritima and C. Americana) found on the seashore of Europe and Ameri…

A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket. [Eng.]

y one of several California scorpænoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa.

The state or quality of being rocky.

Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking. Rocking shaft. (Mach.) See Rock shaft.

A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.

The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.

f great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force.

Being without rocks. Dryden.

Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels.

wers, especially the European H. vulgare and the American frostweed, H. Canadense. Cretan rockrose, a related shrub (Cistus Creticus), one of the plants yielding the fragrant gum called ladanum.

A lamprey.

Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus.

Ligniform asbestus; also, fossil wood.

A rockery.

Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.

The orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto.

Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.

That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.

Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.