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A rank; a row. [Obs.] "In two renges fair." Chaucer.

Armor for the upper part of the arm. Fairholt.

ed, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls. [Also spelt reredosse.] Fairholt.

it or accord with; to correspond to. [R.] For his great deeds respond his speeches great. Fairfax.

To be left; to remain; to continue to be. The affairs of men rest still uncertain. Shak.

A rhetorician; a careful writer. [Obs.] If a rethor couthe fair endite. Chaucer.

A portrait; a likeness. [Obs.] Whose fair retrait I in my shield do bear. Spenser.

it were a steed of Lumbardye. Chaucer. His wounds so smarted that he slept right naught. Fairfax.

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.

an loved he best of any roost [roast]. Chaucer. To rule the roast, to be at the head of affairs. "The new-made duke that rules the roast." Shak.

A celebrated fairy; Puck. See Puck. Shak.

A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat. The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. Pope.

, a screen, between the choir and the body of the church, over which the rood was placed. Fairholt. -- Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it was called also rood steeple. Weale. -- Rood tree, the cross. [Obs.] "Died upon the rood tree." G…

Dewy. [R.] And shook his wings with rory May-dew wet. Fairfax.

Complete and consistent; fair; just; -- applied to conduct. Round dealing is the honor of man's nature. Bacon. At a round rate, rapidly. Dryden. -- In round numbers, approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, etc.; as, a bin holding 99 or 101 bushels may be said to hold in round numbers 100 bushels. -- Round bodies…

A rondelay. "Sung all the roundel lustily." Chaucer. Come, now a roundel and a fairy song. Shak.

gle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range). Fair Venusson that with thy cruel dart At that good knoght cunningly didst rove. Spenser.

To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge. "Their ruddled cheeks." Thackeray. A fair sheep newly ruddled. Lady M. W. Montagu.

ould not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scoth paper for twenty of your fairest assignats. Burke.

le to the youngest." Shak. Thus he concludes, and every hardy knight His sample followed. Fairfax.