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That which is right or correct. Specifically:

Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. Chaucer. The dearest ring in Venice will I give you. Shak.

A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring. You demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites. Shak.

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.

Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so- called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of…

To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Specifically:

One who, or that which, roars. Specifically:

One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle. It was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honor, some thirty years since, to attend on your highness in your infancy. Fuller.

stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes). Specifically:

That which rolls; a roller. Specifically:

A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi He [Lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from pseudo- classicism in poetry, and to have been thus u…

Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth. E. W. Gosse.

as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like. Specifically:

Red as a rose; specifically (Zoöl.), of a pure purplish red color. Chaucer.

A prefix (also used adjectively) signifying rose-red; specifically used to designate certain rose-red compounds (called roseo-cobaltic compounds) of cobalt with ammonia. Cf. Luteo-.

ints, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth. Specifically:

Spaniards, casting themselves into roundels, . . . made a flying march to Calais. Bacon. Specifically:

One who, or that which, rubs. Specifically:

pertaining to, or derived from, rubian; specifically, designating an acid called also ruberythrinic acid. [Obs.]

ripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions. Hence, specifically: