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A round-up. See Round-up. [Western U.S.]

om side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.

e 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 of Gothic architecture.

s, roseate beauty; her roseate lips. Roseate tern (Zoöl.), an American and European tern (Sterna Dougalli) whose breast is roseate in the breeding season.

Totten. (b) To collect together (cattle) by riding around them, as on cattle ranches. [Western U.S.]

ting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. [Western U.S.]

, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs. [Western U.S.]

uproar; disturbance; tumult. Shak. This new book the whole world makes such a rout about. Sterne. "My child, it is not well," I said, "Among the graves to shout; To laugh and play among the dead, And make this noisy rout." Trench.

Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] "Lock he never so row." Chaucer.

iolet color, verging toward blue. -- Royal tern (Zoöl.), a large, crested American tern (Sterna maxima). -- Royal tiger. (Zoöl.) See Tiger. -- Royal touch, the touching of a diseased person by the hand of a king, with the view of restoring to health; -- formerly extensively practiced, particularly for the scrofula,…

patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States (Trochilus colubris).

n, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment.

The main part or blade of the rudder, which is connected by hinges, or the like, with the sternpost of a vessel.

nt; empire; authority; control. Obey them that have the rule over you. Heb. xiii. 17. His stern rule the groaning land obeyed. Pope.

The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter

stablished church of the Russian empire. It forms a portion, by far the largest, of the Eastern Church and is governed by the Holy Synod. The czar is the head of the church, but he has never claimed the right of deciding questions of theology and dogma.

To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about. [Slang, Western U.S.]

are for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person. [Slang, Western U.S.]

arge American grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), native of the dry sagebrush plains of Western North America. Called also cock of the plains. The male is called sage cock, and the female sage hen. -- Sage hare, or Sage rabbit (Zoöl.), a species of hare (Lepus Nuttalli, or artemisia) which inhabits the regions of West…

An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears.