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The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the…

One who puts on roofs.

The act of covering with a roof.

Having no roof; as, a roofless house.

A small roof, covering, or shelter.

The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself. Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the rooftree fall. Tennyson.

Having roofs. [R.] Dryden.

Trial; proof. [Archaic] Shak.

Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms.

Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.

Secure against the explosive force of bombs. -- n.

Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.

A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.

A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers.

To unroof. [R.] Carlyle.

Proof against fire; incombustible.

The act or process of rendering anything incombustible; also, the materials used in the process.

Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits.

Having a hip roof.

A hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one.