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One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulæ in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See Illust. under Ommatidium.

Having gular teeth formed by a peculiar modification of the inferior spines of some of the vertebræ, as certain South African snakes (Dasypelits) which swallow birds' eggs and use these gular teeth to crush them.

A concretion formed within the cavities of the nose.

Furnished or formed with ribs; as, a ribbed cylinder; ribbed cloth.

Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true. That which is conformable to the Supreme Rule is absolutely right, and is called right simply without relation to a special end. Whately.…

Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.

m the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation from sea water in large basins or cavities. -- Rock seal (Zoöl.), the harbor seal. See Seal. -- Rock shell (Zoöl.), any species of Murex, Purpura, and allied genera. -- Rock snake (Zoöl.), any one of sever…

A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.

To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.

speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.

To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality. Let us not hang like ropingicicles Upon our houses' thatch. Shak.

A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe. Sha.

Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds and other precious stones. See Rose diamond, under Rose. Cf. Brilliant, n.

plays on his own account. -- Round hand, a style of penmanship in which the letters are formed in nearly an upright position, and each separately distinct; -- distinguished from running hand. -- Round robin. Etym: [Perhaps F. round round + ruban ribbon.] (a) A written petition, memorial, remonstrance, protest, etc.,…

Formed into a row, or rows; having a row, or rows; as, a twelve-rowed ear of corn.

ard, bran, etc. [Prov.Eng.] Simmonds. Coursed rubble, rubble masonry in which courses are formed by leveling off the work at certain heights.

lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse. Such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had formed. Milton.

Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name. I reared this flower; . . . Soft on the paper ruff its leaves I spread. Pope.

A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.