routine

[Fr. a small path, dim in. of route =a route (q. v.).] 1. A round of busine , pleasure, or amusements, daily or customarily followed; a course of busine or official duties regularly pursued. 2. Any regular habit or practice adhered to from mere force of habit. "He has certain set forms and routines of speech." Butler : Remains , ii. 272. rout-ing, pr. par. or a. [ROUT (4), v.] routing-tool, s. Metall.: A revolving tool used for scooping out metal. Used in digging out the spaces between and around block-letters and bookbinders' stamps, also in deepening the "white" spaces in stereotype, electrotype, and zincographic plates, and broad spaces in the lettering of doorplates.