rough slant (rufslant)

A lean-to; a shelter made of canvas, blankets, bark, or boards laid on poles supported on crotches, and sloping from a ridge-pole to the ground. Sports man's Gazetteer. rough-spun (ruf's pun), a. Rude; unpolished; blunt. Hall i well. rough-string (ruf's tring), п. In carp., one of the generally unplaned inclined supports for the steps of a wooden stairway, usually concealed from view. IMG:content-2516.jpg:[graphic] rough wing (ruf'wing), n . 1. A British moth, Phtheochroa rugosana.-2. A rough-winged swallow. rough-winged (ruf' wingd), a . Having the out- er web of the first primary re- trorsely serrulate, as a swallow of the subfamily Psalidoprocninæ . The common rough-winged swallow of the United States is Stelgidopteryx serr i pennis . It closely resembles the bank-swallow. rough-work (rufwerk), v . t . To work over coarsely, without re- gard to nicety, smoothne , or finish. er web of part of first primary of Stelgidopteryx serr i pennis. IMG:content-2517.png:[blocks in formation] Morris and Skeat , Spec. of Early English, II. iv. (A) 44. Lenten ys come with love to toune, And yet it irks me, the poor dappled fools [deer]... Should. have their round haunches gored. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 1. 25. In person he was not very tall, but exceedingly round; neither did his bulk proceed from his being fat, but windy; being blown up by a prodigious conviction of his own importance. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 312. By the heels and suddenly, and on your heads Clap round fines for neglect. rounce-handle (rouns'han"dl), n . In printing , the crank attached to the rounce, by which it is turned. See printing - pre . rouncevalt, rouncivalt (roun'se-val, -si-val), n . and a. [Also ronceval , runcival ; so called in allusion to the gigantic bones, believed to be those of Charlemagne's heroes, said to have been dug up at Roncesvalles (F. Roncevaux ), 8. Not prevaricating; candid; open. 7. Not descending to unworthy and vexatious stickling over small details. a town at the foot of the Pyrenees, where, according to the old romances, the army of Charlemagne was routed by the Saracens.] I. n. 1. Agiant; hence, anything very large and strong. Hereof I take it comes that seeing a great woman we say she is a Rouncevall . Fol . 22. b. (ed. 1600). ( Nares .) 2. The marrowfat pea: so called from its large size. And set, as a dainty, thy runcival pease. Tu er , January's Husbandry, st. 8. Another [serving-man], stumbling at the Threshold, tumbled in his Dish of Rouncevals before him. Brome , Jovial Crew, v. From Cicero, that wrote in prose, So call'd from rounceval on 's nose. Musarum Deliciæ (1656). ( Nares .) In Staff ords hire, garden- rouncivals sown in the fields kernel well. Mortimer , Husbandry. II. a . Large; strong; robustious. Dost roare, bulchin? dost roare? th' ast a good rounci- uall voice to cry Lanthorne & Candle-light. rounceyt, rounciet, n. See rouncy . rounclet, v. t . An obsolete form of runkle . rouncyt (roun'si), n. [Also rouncey , rouncie ; rouncin , OF. roncin , runcin , ronci , F. rou in = Pr.ro i, roc i, roncin Cat.roc i = Sp . roc in = Pg . rocim IMG:content-2518.png:[blocks in formation] Clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature. Bacon , Truth (ed. 1887). Your reproof is something too round. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 1. The deputy began to be in pa ion, and told the govern. our that, if he were so round , he would be round too. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 99. 11. Periodic; beginning and ending at the same position or state of things, and that without re- versal of the direction of advance: as, a round journey. The round year Will bring all fruits and virtues here. Emerson , Conduct of Life. 12. Filled out roundly or symmetrically; made complete in sense, symmetrical in form, and well-balanced in cadence; well-turned: said of a sentence or of literary style. If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round , I judged a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris-dance of verse. with his right hand; the or rouncey , was the horse of an attendant or servant. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, I. 74, note. 2. A vulgar, coarse woman. Hall i well. round1 (round), a . and n. [Early mod. E. also rownd; round , rownd , ronde = D. rond = MHG. runt, G. rund = Dan. Sw. rund, redon , redun = Cat. redó , rodó = Sp. Pg. rotundo , redondo = It. roton do , ritondo , L.rotund us , like a wheel, round, circular, spherical, rota , a wheel: see rotal , and cf. rotund. Hence ult. roundel, roundelay, rondeau, rundlet , etc.] I. a. 1. Cir- For meals, a round tray is brought in, and placed upon a low stool. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 20. 2. Having circular sections: as, round columns; round chambers. See round bodies , below. - round a clupeoid fish of the genus Etrumcus. The species so called in the United States is E. teres, of the Atlantic coast, of a terete or fusiform figure, olivaceous above and silvery on the sides and belly, with small mouth and fins and large eyes. - Round jack. See jack1. - Round jacket. Same as roundabout, 5. When he wore a round jacket , and showed a marvelous nicety of aim in playing at marbles. George Eliot , Middle march, Finale. Round-joint file. See file 1. - Round knife, ligament, mackerel, meal. See the nouns. - Round number, a number evenly divisible by tens, hundreds, etc., or a number forming an aliquot part of one so divisible, as 10, 25, 75, 100, 750, 1,000, etc.: used especially with reference to approximate or indefinite statement. as Nor is it unreasonable to make some doubt whether, in the first ages and long lives of our fathers, Moses doth not sometime account by full and round numbers . in the age of Noah it is delivered to be just five hundred when he begat Sem; whereas perhaps he might be somewhat above or below that round and complete number . Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 1. This, still pursuing the round - number system, would supply nearly five articles of refuse apparel to every man, woman, and child in this, the greatest metropolis of the world. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, II. 526. Round o. (a) See Ol. (b) A corruption of the word rondo, common in English music-books of the early part of the eighteenth century. - Round ore. Same as leap ore. Round plane. See plane 2. Round pound. See pound2.- Round pronator, the pronator radii teres (which see, under pronator ). - Round robin. See round robin , 5.- Round shore-herring. See herring . - Round shot, seam, table, tower, etc. See the nouns. - Round tool. (a) In wood - working , a chisel with a round nose, used for making concave moldings. (b) In scal - engraving, a tool with a round bead-like end, used for purposes very similar to those of the bead-tool. - Round turn, the pa ing of one end of a rope, attached by the other end to some moving object, completely around a post or timber-head, so as to give a strong hold. This is commonly done to check the movement of a ve el coming into her berth, or the like: hence the saying to bring a person up with a round turn , to stop him suddenly in doing or saying something: administer an effectual check to him. - Round zedoary. See zedoary . =Syn. See roundne . II. n. 1. That which has roundne ; a round (spherical, circular, cylindrical, or conical) object or group of objects; a round part or piece of something: as, a round of beef. We'll dre [some children] Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies, green and white, With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads. Shak., M. W. of W., iv. 4. 50. Over their sashes the men wear rounds of stiffened ru et, to defend their brains from the piercing fervor. Sandys , Travailes, p. 85. As this pale taper's earthly spark, To yonder argent round [the moon]. Tennyson, St. Agnes' Eve. The arches of the round [circular stage] rest on heavy rectangular piers of truly Roman strength. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 133. Specifically- (a) A rung of a ladder or a chair, or any similar round or spindle-shaped piece joining side or corner pieces by its ends. That lowline is young ambition's ladder;.. But, when he once attains the utmost round , He then unto the ladder turns his back. Shak ., J. C., ii. 1. 24. Where all the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise. Dryden, Hind and Panther, ii. 220. (b) In arch., a molding the section of which is a segment of a circle or of a curved figure differing but little from a circle. 2. In art, form rounded or curved and standing free in nature or representation; specifi cally, the presentation in sculpture of complete Figure in the Round. The Sleeping Ariadne, in the Vatican Museum. roundne , represented with its projection on all sides, as in nature, free from any ground, as distinguished from relief: used with the definite article, especially with reference to sculptures of human and animal figures. The progre of sculpture in the round from the Branchidæ statues to the perfect art of Pheidias may be traced through a series of transition specimens. C. T. Newton , Art and Archæol., p. 81. To the training in this school, and the habit of drawing from the round... we may be indebted for the careful 5243 drawing and modeling of the details of his pictures which distinguish Mantegna from all his contemporaries. The Century, XXXIX. 396. 3. A circle; a ring or coil; a gathering in a circle or company, as of persons. [Rare.] Him [the serpent] fast sleeping soon he found In labyrinth of many a round self-roll'd. Milton , P. L., ix. 183. Sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's. Add is on , Spectator, No. 1. 4. A circuit of action or progre ion; a going about from point to point or from one to an other in a more or le definite series; a range or course through a circle of places, persons, things, or doings: as, a round of travel or of visits; a round of duties or pleasures; the story went the rounds of the papers. Come, ladies, shall we take a round ? as men Do walk a mile, women should talk an hour After supper; 'tís their exercise. Beau . and Fl . , Phil aster, ii. 4. He walks the round up and down, through every room o' the house. B. Jonson , Epicæne, iv. 2. Thro' each returning Year, may that Hour be Distinguish'd in the Rounds of all Eternity. Congreve, To Cynthia. The trivial round , the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us daily nearer God. Keble, Christian Year, Morning. 5. A fixed or prescribed circuit of going or doing, supposed to be repeated at regular intervals; a course or tour of duty: as, a policeman's or a sentinel's round; the rounds of postmen, milkmen, newsmen, etc.; a round of inspection by a military officer or guard. We must keep a round, and a strong watch to-night. Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, iii. 5. They accompany the military guards in their nightly rounds through the streets of the metropolis. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 143. The wise old Doctor went his round . Whittier , Snow-Bound. 6. A complete or continuous circuit or course; revolution or range from beginning to end, or without limit; sweep; scope; sphere: as, the rounds of the planets; the whole round of sci ence. They hold that the Blood, which hath a Circulation, and fetcheth a Round every 24 Hours about the Body, is quickly repaired again. Howell , Letters, I. ii. 21. In the Glorious Round of Fame, Great Marlbro, still the same, Ince ant runs his Course. Congreve, Pindaric Odes, i. Thy pinions, universal Air, Are delegates of harmony, and bear Strains that support the Seasons in their round . Words worth, Power of Sound, xii. He seems, indeed, to have run the whole round of knowledge. Sumner, Hon. John Pick ering. So runs the round of life from hour to hour, Tennyson , Circumstance. 7. A bout or turn of joint or reciprocal action; a course of procedure by two or more, either complete in itself, or one of a series with intermi ions or renewals: as, rounds of applause; a round at cards; a round of golf (a course of play round the whole extent of the golfing ground). Women to cards may be compar'd; we play A round or two, when us'd, we throw away. Granville , Epigrams and Characters. The simultaneous start with which they increased their distance by at least a fathom, on hearing the door-bell jingling all over the house, would have ensured a round of applause from any audience in Europe. Whyte Melville, White Rose, I. iii. Specifically-(a) In pugilism , one of the series of bouts constituting a prize-fight or a sparring-match. A round may last for a certain spec if led length of time, as three minutes, or until one of the combatants is down. He stood up to the Banbury man for three minutes, and polished him off in four rounds.. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxxiv. The second round in this diplomatic encounter closed with the British government fairly discomfited. II. Adams, Albert Gall at in, p. 540. (b) A bout of shooting, as at a target, in saluting, or in battle, either with firearms or with bows, in which a certain number of shots are delivered, or in which the participants shoot or fire by turns. The first time I reviewed my regiment they salute with some rounds fired before my door. would B. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 239. The "National Round , " shot by the ladies of Great Britain at all public meetings, consists of 48 arrows at 60 yards, and 24 arrows at 50 yards. M. and W. Thompson , Archery, p. 12. (c) A bout of toast-drinking; the drinking of a toast or of a set of toasts by the persons round a table; also, a toast to be drunk by the company. Them that drank the round , when they crowned their heads with folly and forgetfulne , and their cups with wine and noises. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 615. round The Tories are forced to borrow their toasts from their antagonists, and can scarce find beauties enough of their own side to supply a single round of October. Add is on, Freeholder, No. 8. ( d ) A bout of drinking participated in by a number of persons; a treat all round: as, to pay for the round. (e) In vocal music, a short rhythmical.canon at the unison, in which the several voices enter at equal intervals of time: distinguished from a catch simply in not being nece arily humorous. Rounds have always been very popular in England. The earliest specimen is the famous "Sumer is i-cumen in," which dates from the early part of the thirteenth century, and is the oldest example of counterpoint extant. Also called rondo, rota. Some jolly shepherd sung a lusty round . Fairfax , tr. of Ta o's Godfrey of Boulogne, vii. 6. A Round , a Round , a Round , Boyes, a Round , Let Mirth fly aloft, and Sorrow be drown'd. Brome , Jovial Crew, iv. 1. In the convivial Round , in which each voice chases, so to speak, the different movements in the same order. J. Sully , Sensation and Intuition, p. 213. (f) Same as round dance (which see, under I.). A troupe of Faunes and Satyres far away Within the wood were dauncing in a rownd . Spenser, F. Q., I. vi. 7. Tread we softly in a round , Whilst the hollow murmuring ground Fills the music with her sound. Fletcher, Faithful Shepherde , i. 2. 8. Same as roundel. - 9. Ammunition for a single shot or volley: as, to supply a marksman or a company with forty rounds.-10. In the manège, a volt, or circular tread.-11. A brewers' ve el for holding beer while undergoing the final fermentation. It was at one time the practice amongst the Scotch brewers to employ the fermenting rounds only, and to cleanse from these directly into the casks. Spons ' Encyc . Manuf ., I. 406. Cog and round. See cog2. - Gentleman of the round. See gentleman . - Hollows and rounds. See hollow1.In the round, in art. See def. 2, above. - Round of beef, a cut of the thigh through and acro the bone. Instead of boiling or stewing a piece of the round of beef , for example, the Mount Desert cooks broil or fry it. The Century , XL. 562. To cut the round. See volt . round1 (round), adv.1 [ ME.round ; round1 , a.] Roundly; vigorously; loudly. I peyne me to han an hauteyn spec he, And ringe it oute as round as goth a belle. Chaucer, Prol. to Pardoner's Tale, 1. 45. round1 (round), adv . 2 and prep . [Prop.an aphetic form of around : see around .] I. adv. 1. On all sides; so as to surround or make the circuit of. See round about , below. Thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compa thee round , and keep thee in on every side. Luke xix. 43. When he alighted, he surveyed me round with great admiration. Swift , Gulliver's Travels, i. 2. 2. With a revolving or rotating movement or course; in a circular or curvilinear direction; around: as, to go round in a circle; to turn round and go the other way. He that is giddy thinks the world turns round . Shak., T. of the S., v. 2. 20. 3. In or within a circuit; round about. The longest way round is the shortest way home. Popular saying . Round and around the sounds were cast, Till echo seemed an answering blast. Scott , L. of the L., i. 10. A brutal cold country this. Never a stick thicker than your finger for seven mile round . H. Kingsley , Geoffry Hamlyn, v. 4. To or at this place or time through a circuit or circuitous course. IMG:content-2519.jpg:[blocks in formation] Tally-ho coach for Leicester 'll be round in half-an-hour, and don't wait for nobody. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby. i. 4. Once more the slow, dumb years Bring their avenging cycle round . Whittier, Mithridates at Chios. 5. In circumference: as, a tree or a pillar 40 inches round.-6. In a circling or circulating course; through a circle, as of persons or things: as, there was not food enough to go round; to pa round among the company. The invitations were sent round . Scott . 7. In a complete round or series; from beginning to end. She named the ancient heroes round. Swift. The San Francis cans now eat the best of grapes, cherries, and pears almost the year round. Dublin Univ. Mag., Feb., 1872, p. 224. All round. (a) Over the whole place; in every direction. (0) In all respects; for all purposes: also used adjectively: as, a clever all - round writer or actor; a good horse for all round work. IMG:content-2520.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-2521.jpg:[graphic] round One of the quietest, but, all round, one of the brainiest Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 241. merchants and financiers in the United States. Luff round. See luff 2. - Round about. (a) [ About, adv.] (1) In an opposite direction; with reversed position; so as to face the other way. She's turned her richt and round about , And the kembe fell frae her han'. Lady Maisry (Child's Ballads, II. 82). (2) All around; in every direction. When he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety. Deut. xii. 10. Round about are like Tombes for his wiues and children, but not so great and faire. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 288. On the other side... stood a great square Tower, and round about the rubbish of many other Buildings. Maundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 17. (b) [ About, prep.] On every side of; all round. And he made darkne pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. 2 Sam. xxii. 12. The skins hanging round about his head, backe, and shoulders. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's True Travels, I. 161. And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing. To bring round. See bring. Milton , Il Penseroso, 1. 48. "What's the matter, Mother?" said I, when we had brought her a little round . Dickens, Little Dorrit, i. 2. To come round. See come . He was about as glib-tongued a Jacobin as you'd wish to see; but now my young man has come round handsomely. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 495. To fly, get, go, turn round. See the verbs. To pa round the hat. See hat1. II. prep . 1. On every side of; surrounding; encircling: as, the people stood round him; to put a rope round a post. O thou, my love, whose love is one with mine, I, maiden, round thee, maiden, bind my belt. Tennyson, Holy Grail. 2. Circuitously about: as, a ramble round the park; to sail round Cape Horn; a journey round the world. He led the hero round The confines of the blest Elysian ground. Dryden, Æneid, vi. 1227. The succe ful expedition round Cape Bojador, being soon spread abroad through Europe, excited a spirit of adventure in all foreigners. Bruce , Source of the Nile, II. 99. To come round, get round, etc. See the verbs. round1 (round), v . [= D. ronden , round, = G. runden , become round, ründen , make round, = Sw . rund a = Dan. runde , make round, = F. rondir, become round; from the adj. (in defs. I., 4, 5, and II., 2, 3, 5, rather from the adverb): see round1 , a ., round1 , adv . 2.] I. trans. 1. To give roundne or rotundity to; make circular, spherical, cylindrical, conical, convex, or curved; form with a round or curved outline: as, to round the edges of anything; the rounded corners of a piano or of a book. Ye shall not round the corners of your heads. and rounded to a very great perfection. Lev. xix. 27. The figures on several of our modern medals are raised Add is on, Ancient Medals, iii. Bull, the dog, lies rounded on the hearth, his nose between his paws, fast asleep. S. Judd , Margaret, i. 17. Remains of Roman architecture controlled the minds of artists, and induced them to adopt the rounded rather than the pointed arch. J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 101. 2. To fill out roundly or symmetrically; complete or perfect in form or substance. A quaint, terse, florid style, rounded into periods and cadencies. Swift , Misc. General ideas are e ences; they are our gods; they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living. Emerson, Nominalist and Realist. He has lived to round a personality that will be traditional. Stedman, Poets of America, p. 302. 3. To fill out the circle or term of; bring to completion; finish off. We are such stuff 5244 rounded Cape Horn; to round the corner of a street. To round down, to overhaul downward, as arope or tackle. To round in, or round in on ( naut.), to haul in the slack of: as, to round in a rope; to round in on a weather-brace. - To round off. (a) To finish off in a curved or rounded form; give a rounding finish to: as, to round off the corners of a table or a marble slab. See round- off file, under file1. (b) To finish completely; bring into a completed or perfected state. Just as little in the course of its development in time as in space is the body rounded off into strict unity. Lotze , Microcosmos (trans.), I. 136. Positive science, like common-sense, treats objects as rounded- off totals, as "absolutes." Mind, XLI. 124. To round out. (a) To expand, distend, or fill out in a rounded form as, a paunch or a bust well rounded out . (b) To fill out symmetrically or completely: as, to round out a speech with apt illustrations. To round to, to haul by the wind when sailing free; bring (a ve el) head up to the wind preparatory to letting go the anchor.- To round up. ( a ) To heap or fill up so as to make round at top: as, to round up a measure of grain. ( b ) In grazing regions, to drive or bring together in close order: as, to round up a scattered herd of cattle. (c) Naut ., to haul up, as the slack of a rope through its leading-block, or a tackle which hangs loose by its fall. (d) To scold or reprove roundly; bring to account. II. in trans. 1. To grow or become round; acquire curvature, plumpne , roundne , or rounded bigne . The queen your mother rounds apace. Those sincerely follow reason, but, for want of having large, sound, roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question. Locke , Human Understanding. 3. Encircling; surrounding; encompa ing. Tatler. ( Imp . Dict .) II. n. 1. A large horizontal revolving frame, carrying small wooden horses and carriages, sometimes elephants, etc., on or in which children ride; a merry-go-round.-2. A round dance. The Mi Flam boroughs. understood the jig and the roundabout to perfection. Goldsmith, Vicar, ix. 1. 3. A scene of ince ant revolution, change, or vici itude. [Rare.] He sees that this great roundabout , The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs, and its bus'ne es, Is no concern at all of his, And says-what says he?-"Caw!" Cowper, The Jackdaw (trans.), 4. An arm-chair with rounded back and sides. -5. A short coat or jacket for men and boys, without skirts, which fits the body closely. Also round jacket. He sauntered about the streets in a plain linen round about . The Century , XXV. 176. Shak., W. T., ii. 1. 16. 6. A cyclonic storm. [Bermudas.] All the jarring notes of life Seem blending in a psalm, And all the angles of the strife Slow rounding into calm. Whittier, My Psalm, gave way to small green spheres rounding daily to full-orbed fruit. The fair pink blooms R. T. Cooke , Somebody's Neighbors, p. 217. 2. To go round about; make a circuit; go the rounds, as a guard. While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk. Milton, P. L., iv. 685. So rounds he to a separate mind, From whence clear memory may begin. Tennyson , In Memoriam, xlv. The stream goes rounding away through the sward, bending somewhat to the right, where the ground gradually descends. The Century , XXXVI. 806. 3. To turn around or about; make a turn. The men who met him rounded on their heels, And wonder'd after him. Tennyson , Pelleas and Ettarre. 4. To become full or finished; develop into a completed or perfected type: as, the girl rounds into the woman. 5. To bend or turn downward, as a whale; make ready to dive, as a whale, by curving its small. Also round out. To round on, to turn upon or against; abuse; a ail; beset: as, he rounded on me in a rage.