roach3 (roch)

[Origin obscure.] 1. Naut., a concave curve in the leech or foot of a square sail, to improve the fit of the sail. A convex curve used in the head and foot of fore-and-aft sails is called a sweep. 2. An upstanding curl or roll of hair over the forehead, like the roach of a sail. [Colloq.] roach3 (rōch), v. t. [See roach3, n.] 1. To cause to stand up or arch; make projecting or convex: as, his hair was roached up over his forehead. [Colloq.] An arched loin is desirable, but not to the extent of being roached or "wheel-backed," a defect which generally tends to slow up-and-down gallop. Dogs of Great Britain and America , p. 100. IMG:content-2375.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A hostile expedition; an incursion; an inroad-car (rōd'kär), n. A low-hung omnibus road; a raid. See raid. Therefore, sothely me semys, yf ye so wille, That we dre e to our dede when the day sprynges; All redy to rode , aray for our shippes. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5630. Him he named who at that time was absent making roads upon the Lacedæmonians. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, i. In these wylde deserts where she now abode There dwelt a salvage nation, which did live Of stealth and spoile, and making nightly rode Into their neighbours borders. Spenser, F. Q., VI. viii. 35. And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to-day? And David said, Against the south of Judah. 1 Sam. xxvii. 10. Lay down our proportions to defend Against the Scot, who will make road upon us. Shak., Hen. V., i. 2. 138. 3. A public way for pa age or travel; a strip of ground appropriated for travel, forming a line of communication between different places; a highway; hence, any similar pa age for travel, public or private; by extension, a railroad or railway. See street. Hence-4. Any means or way of approach or acce ; a course; a path. To be indifferent whether we embrace falsehood or truth is the great road to error. Locke . There is one road To peace and that is truth, which follow ye. Shelley, Julian and Maddalo. 5. A place near the shore where ve els may anchor, differing from a harbor in not being sheltered. Also called roadstead. Harbours they have none, but exceeding good Rodes , which with a small charge might bee very well fortified; it doth ebbe and flow foure or five foot. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, II. 276. The anchorage, however, is an open road , and in stormy weather it is impo ible for a boat to land. B. Taylor , Lands of the Saracen, p. 30. At anchor in Hampton Roads we lay. Long fellow, The Cumber land. Accommodation road. See accommodation. - By road, by the highway, as distinguished from the railway or waterway. The journey had been fatiguing, for a great part of it was by road. George Mac Donald , What's Mine's Mine, ii. the quali Corduroy, Duns table, Flam in i an road. See the pation road. See occupation. On the road, pa ing; fying words. Knight of the road. See knight. - Occutraveling; specifically, traveling on busine , as making sales for a firm, peddling, etc.; also, in the at. slang, making a provincial tour. - Parallel roads. See parallel. - Plank road a road formed of planks laid transversely, used in somewhat primitive districts in America. Royal road to knowledge. See royal. - Rule of the road. (a) The custom of a country with regard to the pa ing of those who meet on a highway. In the United States, and generally in continental Europe, teams or riders approach ing each other on the highway are expected to keep to the right of the center of the traveled part of the highway. In Great Britain the reverse obtains. (b) The regulations embodied in a code of rules for the safe handling of ve els meeting or pa ing each other. - The road, the highway: used figuratively for highway robbery. There is always some little Trifle given Prisoners, I roached his mane and docked his tail, and put him in a warm stall with half a foot of straw underneath. The Century , XXXVII. 335.