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To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate. Trees uprooted left their place. Dryden. At his command the uprooted hills retired. Milton.

imp. of Write. Wrote. Chaucer.

Any one of several plants with yellow roots. Specifically:

To lay bare, as the roots of a tree. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. [Obs.] Evelyn.

The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung. Earle.

cesses of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.

the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aërial rootlets, aërial plants. Gray.

Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.

Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.

inative languages. R. Morris. Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. Max Müller.

The Scythian lamb, a kind of woolly-skinned rootstock. See Barometz.

ainst ague. Gay. -- Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. [Obs.]

A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.

whole difference. -- All the same, nevertheless. "There they [certain phenomena] remain rooted all the same, whether we recognize them or not." J. C. Shairp. "But Rugby is a very nice place all the same." T. Arnold. -- See also under All, n.

Any detergent plant, or the part of it used as a detergent, as the roots of Agave Americana, Chlorogalum pomeridianum, etc. [Sp. Amer. & Mex.]

A disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; -- called also fingers and toes.

A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.

gelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic.