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n instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement. He that spareth his rod hateth his son. Prov. xiii. 24.

Full of rods or twigs.

Redness; complexion. [Obs.] "His rode was red." Chaucer.

Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.

An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.

A round-up. See Round-up. [Western U.S.]

The gadwall. [Prov.Eng.]

Juice of roses mixed with honey. Simmonds.

A vain or blustering boaster; a braggart; a braggadocio. Sir T. Herbert.

Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant. I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible. Dryden.

One who boasts.

Rodomontade.

A rodomontadist.

One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party. G. W. Cable.

Ruddy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

The upper surface of the toes, individually.

teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge. -- a. Of or pertaining to the acrodonts.

The science of gliding and soaring flight.

A ground or field, esp. one equipped with housing and other facilities, used for flying purposes. -- A`ër*o*drom"ic (#), a.