robustiousness (robustyusnes)

Vigor; muscular size and strength. [Obsolete or archaic.] That robustiousne of body, and pui ance of person, which is the only fruit of strength. Sir E. Sandys , State of Religion, sig. S. 2. robustly (ro-bustʻli), adv . In a robust manner; with great strength; muscularly. robustne (rō-bust'nes), n. The quality of being robust; strength; vigor, or the condition of the body when it has full firm flesh and sound health. rocl (rok), n. [Also rock, rok, ruc, ruck, rukh; = G.roc = Sw.roc, rok = Dan, rok = It. ruch, roch i (Florio), On the 27th of January, 1851, Isidore Geoffroy Saint Hila ire read before the Paris i an Academy of Sciences a paper, in which he described two enormous eggs and part of the metatarsus of a bird which he called Epyornis 5204 maximus... This brought again to mind the old story of the famous Venetian traveller, Marco Polo, who located the ruc or roc, the giant bird of the Arabian tales, upon Madagascar, and related that the great Khan of the Tartars, having heard of the bird, sent me engers to Madagascar, who brought back a feather nine spans long, and two palms in circumference. Stand. Nat. Hist., IV. 47. Roc's egg, something marvelous or prodigious, having no foundation in fact; a mare's nest.