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A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living. The ability . . . of the great philosopher speedily produced a complete revolution throughout the department. Macaulay.

To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy. [Obs.] I will red evil beasts out of the land. Lev. xxvi. 6. Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince! Shak.

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. Chaucer. Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him. Swift.

The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way. Stocqueler.

play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks. "Rigging and rifling all ways." Chapman.

Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.

A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.

A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.

A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

on, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.

iodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.

e space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated. -- To make room, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room. Make room, and let him stand before our face. Shak.

tting. -- Rotary valve, a valve acting by continuous or partial rotation, as in the four-way cock.

ective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. "The deepness of the rotten way." Knolles. Rotten borough. See under Borough. -- Rotten stone (Min.), a soft stone, called also Tripoli (from the country from which it was formerly brought), used in all sorts of finer grinding and polishing in the arts, and…

having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road. "Rough, uneven ways." Shak.

To draw or delineate rapidly and by way of a first sketch.

Wrought in a rough, unfinished way; worked over coarsely.

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march. Wide through the furzy field their route they take. Gay.

f a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty. Royalty by birth was the sweetest way of majesty. Holyday.

ally, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch. Every rub is smoothed on our way. Shak. To sleep, perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub. Shak. Upon this rub, the English ambassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward. One knows not, certainly, what other rubs might have been ordained for us by a wise Providen…