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Not affording rest; as, a restless chair. Cowper. Restless thrush. (Zoöl.) See Grinder, 3.

Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.

A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.

he gale. to ride the lightning, (Colloq.) to be executed by electrocution in an electric chair.

ality or state of being right; right relation. The craving for rightness with God. J. C. Shairp.

A curl; especially, a curl of hair. [Her golden tresses] in wanton ringlets waved. Milton.

To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.

ay backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter. A rising earthquake rocked the ground. Dryden.

One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks.

To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street. "The rolling chair." Dryden.

Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair.

tation under Radical, n., 2. -- Root barnacle (Zoöl.), one of the Rhizocephala. -- Root hair (Bot.), one of the slender, hairlike fibers found on the surface of fresh roots. They are prolongations of the superficial cells of the root into minute tubes. Gray. -- Root leaf (Bot.), a radical leaf. See Radical, a., 3 (b…

p of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair. All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise. Dryden.

s by auction. [Scot.] Jamieson. To roup, that is, the sale of his crops, was over. J. C. Shairp.

A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.

The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness. To parade your rubicundity and gray hairs. Walpole.

Having shaggy hair; shock-headed. [Obs.] Those rough rug-headed kerns. Shak.

Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy. "The rugged Russian bear." Shak.

Rugged; rough. [Obs.] "With ruggy, ashy hairs." Chaucer.

You run your head into the lion's mouth. Sir W. Scott. Having run his fingers through his hair. Dickens.