root (1), rote

t. & i. [ROOT, s.] A. Transitive: 1. Lit .: To fix by the root; to plant and fix in the ground by the root. 2. Fig .: To fix or implant firmly and deeply; to impre deeply and durably. (Used generally in the pa. par.) "His honor rooted in dishonor stood." Tennyson: Elaine, 872. B. Intransitive : 1. Lit .: To fix the root, to take root; to enter the nutriment from the soil. Roots require air, and in earth, as a root. some cases in gardens obtain it by pushing their way into old drains. 3. Hyd. Eng. The end of a weir or dam where it unites with the natural bank. 4. Math .: The root of a quantity is any quantity which, being taken a certain number of times as a factor, will produce the quantity. [SQUARE-ROOT, CUBE-ROOT.] A root of a quantity may be real, or it may be imaginary. The character used to denote a root isy. [RADICAL-SIGN.] 5. Music : (1) A note which, beside its own sound, gives overtones or harmonics. (2) That note from among whose overtones any chord may be selected. (3) Sometimes used by modern musicians as describing a note on which, when either expre ed or implied, a chord is built up. 6. Philol .: An elementary notional syllable; that part of a word which conveys its e ential meaning, as distinguished from the formative parts by which this meaning is modified. (1) Root and Branch Men: Eng. Hist.: A name a umed about 1641 by the extreme republicans of England who advocated the abolition of monarchy and the overthrow of the Established Church. †(2) Root of scarcity: Agric.: The Mangel-wurzel (q. v.). (3) To take root, to strike root : To become planted or fixed; to be established, to thrive and spread. *root-bound, a. Fixed to the earth by roots; immovable. IMG:content-0727.png:[blocks in formation] "Enable the cuttings to root ."- Field , Oct. 3, 1885. *2. Fig .: To become deeply and firmly established or impre ed; to take root. "There rooted between them such an affection."Shakesp.: Winter's Tale , i. 1. roôt (2), *wrot-en, v . t . & i. [A. S. wrótan =to grub up; cogn. with O. Dut. wroeten ; Icel. róta; from rót a root; Dan. rode , from rod =a root (q. v.). The meaning has no doubt been greatly influenced by the verb root (1).] A. Transitive : 1. To dig, burrow, or grub in with the snout; to turn up the ground, as the swine with their snouts. "Would root these beauties, as he roots the mead." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis , 636. 2. To tear up or out, as by the roots; to eradicate, to extirpate; to destroy or remove utterly, to exterminate. (Generally with away , out , or up .) "To root out the whole hated family." --Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece. (Arg.) IMG:content-0728.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To rummage about. roôt'-ěd, pa. par. & a. [Root (1), v.] A. As pa. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adj .: Deeply and durably impre ed or established; firmly fixed. "Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow." Shakesp.: Macbeth , v. 3. roôt-ěd-lỹ, adv . [Eng. rooted ; -ly .] In a rooted manner; deeply, strongly. Milton: Comus, 662. "And you a statue; or, as Daphne was, Root - bound, that fled Apollo." root-breaker, root-bruiser, s. Agric.: A machine for mashing or bruising pot a stock . "They all do hate him As rootedly as I." Shakesp.: Tempest , iii. 2. roôt-ěd-nè , subst . rooted; -ne .) The 2. Figuratively : (1) That which resembles a root in position or function; the part of anything which resembles the roots of a plant in manner of growth, or as a source of nourishment or support. "To the root of the tongue."-Shakesp.: Timon, v. 1. (2) The origin, source, or cause of anything. "The love of money is the root of all evil."-1 Tim . vi. 10. (3) The first ancestor; the progenitor. "The root and father IMG:content-0729.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0730.png:[blocks in formation]