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One of the Rotifera. See Illust. in Appendix.

An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and habits.

Wheel-shaped; as, rotiform appendages.

A photograph printed by a process in which a strip or roll of sensitized paper is automatically fed over the negative so that a series of prints are made, and are then developed, fixed, cut apart, and washed at a very rapid rate.

The rotating part of a generator or motor.

See Rota.

Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat. Hence:

The patella, or kneepan.

Of or pertaining to the rotula, or kneepan.

A rotunds. [Obs.] Burke.

Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.

Rounded; especially, rounded at the end or ends, or at the corners.

Having round leaves.

The state or quality of being rotu Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world! Shak.

Roundness; rotundity.

See Rotunda.

The condition of being a roturier.

A roturier. [Obs.] Howell.

A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.

To make rotten. [Obs.] Well bet is rotten apple out of hoard, Than that it roty all the remenant. Chaucer.