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w or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.

To punish with a rope's end.

the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.

A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar. [Written also roband, and robbin.]

One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height. -- Rope"dan`cing, n.

A maker of ropes. P. Plowman.

A place where ropes are made.

A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.

A ropedancer.

Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

In the act of groping. Mrs. Browning.

Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.

One of the Pleiades; -- called also Sterope.

A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

See Breastband.

Of or pertaining to an acid more generally called pepsin- hydrochloric acid.

An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the (European) Eastern Question.

To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of. [R.] Shak.