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Yielding reward. [R.]

Having, or affording, no reward.

Tu rue. [Obs.] Chaucer.

olete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone. His saddle was of rewel boon. Chaucer.

A gunlock. [R.]

Rueful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To win again, or win back. The Palatinate was not worth the rewinning. Fuller.

Rule. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Realm. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

To alter the wording of; to restate in other words; as, to reword an idea or a passage.

To write again. Young.

Ruth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

rd the Roman Catholic Church. To analyze the crisis in its Anglican rather than in its Romeward aspect. Gladstone.

A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.

A ropedancer.

m. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra. African rosewood, the wood of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus erinaceus. -- Jamaica rosewood, the wood of two West Indian trees (Amyris balsamifera, and Linocieria ligustrina). -- New South Wales rosewood, the wood of Trichilia glandulosa,…

The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacæcia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds.

Roseroot.

To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber.

One who roughhews.