rothliegende (th ast), rothtodtliegende (th, dtast)

[Ger. = Red Layer, Red Dead layer, so called by the German miners, because their ores disappear in the red rocks below the Kupferschiefer.] Geol.: A series of strata of Lower Permian age, constituting with the Zechstein the Dyas of Continental geologists. It occurs on the south side of the Hartz, and is divided into an Upper, Middle, ish Permian Red Sandstone. "The ball and socket joint allows a rotatory or sweep ing motion."- Paley: Natural Theology, ch. ix. 2. Going in a circle; following in rotation or succe ion; as, rotatory a emblies. *B. As subst.: One of the Rotator i a (q. v.). "By it the Rota tories fix the posterior extremity of the body."- Van der Hoeven: Zoology (ed. Clark), i. 196. rotatory-engine, s. [ROTARY-ENGINE.] rotatory-muscle, s. Anat .: A rotator (q. v.). rotatory-polarization, s. [POLARIZATION, [.] rotch, s. [Welsh provincial name.] Geol.: Mudstone. "That disjointed incoherent state of mudstone, the rotch of the natives, so usele to the mason and the miner, and so cold and profitle to the agriculturist." Murchison: Siluria , ch. v. rõtche, s. [Dut. rotja petrel.] Ornith.: Mergulus melano leu cos , the Little Auk. [AUK, MERGULUS.] rotch-ět, s. [ROCHET.] rotch-ỹ, a. [Eng. rotch; -y.] Composed of or resembling rotch (q. v.). "What the inhabitants term rotch or rotchy land."_ Murchison: Silurian System , pt. i., ch. xx. rōte (1), s . [O. Fr., from O. H. Ger. hrota , rotá ; M. H. German rotte ; Low Lat. rota , rotta , chrotta , from Welsh cruth ; Eng. crowd =a fiddle.] Music: An old stringed musical instrument; a kind of harp, lute, guitar, or viol. "Wel coude he singe and plaien on a rote." Chaucer: C. T., 237. (Prol.) rõte (2), *roate, s . [O. French rote (Fr. route )=a road, a route (q. v.), whence O. Fr. rotine (French routine )=routine (q. v.).] 1. The frequent repetition of words, phrases, or sounds without any attention to their signification or to principles or rules; a mere effort of memory; repetition of words from memory only; a parrot like repetition of what one has learned. (Only in the phrase by rote .) "Instead of teaching it prayers by rote read to it." - Mi Carter: Letters, iii. 126. I would IMG:content-0761.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To repeat from memory. "If by chance a tune you rote ." -Drayton. *rōte (2). v. i. [Lat.roto=to rotate (q. v.).] Το go out by rotation. "A third part of the senate, or parliament, should rote out by ballot every year." -Zachary Grey: Note on Hudibras, ii. 3, 1,108.