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An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4. Moored in the neighboring roadstead. Longfellow.

athing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2. Roaring boy, a roaring, noisy fellow; -- name given, at the latter end Queen Elizabeth's reign, to the riotous fellows who raised disturbances in the street. "Two roaring boys of Rome, that made all split." Beau & Fl. -- Roaring forties (Naut.), a sailor's na…

A riotous fellow; a roaring boy. A lady to turn roarer, and break glasses. Massinger.

erson of another by violence or by putting him in fear. Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Milton.

A blustering, turbulent fellow. If two roisterers met, they cocked their hats in each other faces. Macaulay.

ary. Through abuse of power by the pontiffs to whose care it was committed, this calendar fell into confusion. It was replaced by the Julian calendar. In designating the days of the month, the Romans reckoned backward from three fixed points, the calends, the nones, and the ides. The calends were always the first day o…

A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper. Wycherley.

d to cause misappehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment. Bp. Fell.

A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy. In the rough, in an unwrought or rude condition; unpolished; as, a diamond or a sketch in the rough. Contemplating the people in the rough. Mrs. Browning.

A rough, coarse fellow; collectively, the lowest class of the people; the rabble; the riffraff. [Colloq. U.S.]

To whisper. [obs.] Gower. Another rouned to his fellow low. Chaucer.

One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.

Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. "His rubicund face." Longfellow.

An uncivil, turbulent fellow. [Obs.] Shak.

A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat. Wilt thou on thy deathbed play the ruffian Shak.

anklin. By the fireside there are old men seated, Seeling ruined cities in the ashes. Longfellow.

Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow. [Slang] Dickens.

uns hot water. At the base of Pompey's statua, Which all the while ran blood, great Cæsar fell. Shak.

rse poetry expressed in runes. Runes were upon his tongue, As on the warrior's sword. Longfellow. Rune stone, a stone bearing a runic inscription.

, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect. Here is a rural fellow; . . . He brings you figs. Shak.