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To require. [Obs.]

ire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty. I will marry her, sir, at your request. Shak.

One who requests; a petitioner.

Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqué story. Henry Austin.

Of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful. Romanesque style (Arch.), that which grew up from the attempts of barbarous people to copy Roman architecture and apply it to their own purposes. This term is loosely applied to all the styles of Western Europe, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the appearance…

A form of croquet modified for greater accuracy of play. The court has a wood border often faced with rubber, used as a cushion in bank shots. The balls are 3¼ in. in diameter, the cage (center arches or wickets) 3 3/8 in. wide, the other arches 3½ in. wide.

A highly flavored blue-molded cheese, made at Roquefort, department of Aveyron, France. It is made from milk of ewes, sometimes with cow's milk added, and is cured in caves. Improperly, a cheese made in imitation of it.

ak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century. [Written also roquelo.]

To hit, as another's ball, with one's own ball.

Same as 2d Sack, 3.

Salic. Shak. She fulmined out her scorn of laws salique. Tennyson.

Discoursing on heavenly or holy things, or in a holy manner.

After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture.

A semicircular hollow or opening among trees or hills. Wordsworth.

Half opaque; only half transparent.

That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history. O, let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before. Shak.

An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents. "Coleridge and his sequela." G. P. Marsh.

The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement. How art thou a king But by fair sequence and succession Shak. Sequence and series of the seasons of the year. Bacon.

Following; succeeding; in continuance. What to this was sequent Thou knowest already. Shak.

Succeeding or following in order. -- Se*quen"tial*ly, adv.