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The characters of a mineral observed by the use of the blowpipe, as the degree of fusibility, flame coloration, etc.

Having four ribs.

One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.

Farthest in the rear; last.

Having a straight beak.

A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.

Having the beak bent upwards.

See Rheostat.

A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will. Wheatstone. --Rhe`o*stat"ic, a.

A suborder of Medusæ which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix.

One of the Rhizostomata.

In fencing, a return thrust after a parry.

e or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch. He clapped his wings upon his roost. Dryden.

The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

tic fowl; a cock. [U.S.] Nor, when they [the Skinners and Cow Boys] wrung the neck of a rooster, did they trouble their heads whether he crowed for Congress or King George. W. Irving.

See Roust. [Scot.] Jemieson.

same as Rostellum.

Pertaining to a rostellum.

Having a rostellum, or small beak; terminating in a beak.

Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak.