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A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.

Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.

a rampart or ramparts. Those grassy hills, those glittering dells, Proudly ramparted with rocks. Coleridge. Rampart gun (Fort.), a cannon or large gun for use on a rampart and not as a fieldpiece.

A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. [Obs.] That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. Chapman.

A California rockfish (Sebastichthys miniatus).

The act of rebounding; resilience. Flew . . . back, as from a rock, with swift rebound. Dryden.

The goggle-eye, or fresh-water rock bass. [Local, U.S.]

A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water. See Coral reefs, under Coral.

Full of reefs or rocks.

Shelter or protection from danger or distress. Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these Find place or refuge. Milton. We might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Heb. vi. 18.

ts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak. The dreadful thunder Doth rend the region. Shak.

e to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate. Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound. W. Pattison.

Fixed; stable; certain. [Obs.] "Stable and resident like a rock." Jer. TAylor. One there still resident as day and night. Davenant.

A quartzose trachyte, an igneous rock often showing a fluidal structure. -- Rhy`o*lit"ic, a.

sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle. [They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind. Milton.

Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.

To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. Longfellow. To dwell these rifted rocks between. Wordsworth.

Toward the right. Rightward and leftward rise the rocks. Southey.

tion of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration. He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian Rock With rigorous hands. Shak. We do not connect the scattered phenomena into their rigorous unity. De Quincey.

a better fit. As sound as a roach Etym: [roach perhaps being a corruption of a F. roche a rock], perfectly sound.