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A macadamized road.

An excursion. [Obs.] "Outrodes by the ways of Judea." Macc. xv. 41 (Geneva Bible).

A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.

The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad. [Colloq. U. S.]

A road along which logs are dragged to the skidway or landing; - - called also travois, or travoy, road.

A towing path.

One who has charge of the track; --called also roadmaster.

A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.

See Trode. [Obs.]

e position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

To send abroad. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of sending abroad. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

order; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.

agonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

Utterance abroad; publicity; vent. You gave it air before me. Dryden.

Lately; of late. [Archaic] There hath been alate such tales spread abroad. Latimer.

The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.

e carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South Amer…