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

Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.

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 positive pole of a voltaic battery.

The external covering of an Arthropod.

Surgical fixation of joints.

imp. & p. p. of Bestride.

A buskin or half-boot. [Written also brodequin.] [Obs.]

The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery. Faraday.

In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.

To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali. Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce it to a green- blue solution. Boyle.

Anything that corrodes. Bp. King.

The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.

To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh. "The blood . . . erodes the vessels." Wiseman. The smaller charge is more apt to . . . erode the gun. Am. Cyc.

Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away.

A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.

A dextrin which gives a red color with iodine. See Dextrin.

Hermaphrodism. B. Jonson.

A form of hygrometer having wet and dry bulb thermometers, with an adjustable index showing directly the percentage of moisture in the air, etc.