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Verse (Steele Glas., etc., ed. IMG:content-2436.png:[blocks in formation] An obsolete form of run1 . G. B. Pre scott , Elect. Invent., p. 288. run1. upon the surface of molten metal while cooling, and which as they form are removed for further treatment. In copper-working these disks are also called rose- copper and rosettes . Suboxid of copper contained in them is removed by further refining. 3. Milit.: (a) A small shield (15 inches in length) formerly used by pikemen and archers. (b) One of the iron disks, each having an opening in the center for the pa age of a bolt, placed between the cheeks and stock of a field gun carriage in bolting these parts together. (c) A semicircular bastion introduced by Albert Dürer. It was about 300 feet in diameter, and contained spacious casemates. - Rondelle à poing, a name given to the very small round buckler of quillo , slightly hoarse, hoarse, dim. of ronco , hoarse, raucus , hoarse: see raucous .] 1. A fish of the North Pacific, Bathymaster sign at us , of an elongate form with a long dorsal having only the foremost two or three rays inarticulate, frequenting moderately deep water with rocky grounds.-2. One of a group or family of fishes of which Bathymaster has been supposed to be a representative-namely, the Icosteidæ . [So called from Ronsdorfer (ronz'dorf-er), n . Ronsdorf, a town in Pru ia.] A member of a sect of German millenarians of the eighteenth tion. See cuts under buckler and rondache . rondle (ron'dl), n. [ , a round, roundel: see round, roundel .] 1. Same as ron delle .-2. The step of a ladder; a round. Yea, peradventure in as ill a case as hee that goes up a ladder, but slippeth off the rondells , or, when one breakes, falls downe in great danger. Rich Cabinet furnished with Varietie of Excellent Discrip [ tions (1616). ( Nares .) [It. rondò , F.rondeau : see rondo (ron'dō), n . rondeau.] 1. In music: ( a ) Same as round1 , 7 (e). (b) A setting of a rondeau or similar poem. (c) A work or movement in which a principal phrase or section is several times repeated in its original key in alternation with contrasted phrases or sections in the same or other keys. The succe ion of principal and subordinate phrases is often exactly regulated, but the form is open to wide variations. In a sonata the last movement is often a rondo. 2. A game of hazard played with small balls on a table. With card and dice, roulette wheels and rondo balls, he fooled himself to the top of his bent. [Dim. of rondo , J. W. Palmer , The New and the Old, p. 229. Rondo form, in music , the form or method of composition of a rondo: often opposed to sonata form . rondoletto (ron-do-let'ō), n . q. v.] In music , a short or simple rondo. rondure (ron'dūr), n . [ F.rondeur , roundne , rond , round: see round1 .] Around; a circle; a curve; a swell; roundne . Also roundure . [Obsolete or archaic.] All things rare IMG:content-2437.png:[blocks in formation] ronel (ron), n . An earlier, now only dialectal, form of roe2 . rone2, n. [ rone , runnr , older rudhr , a bush, grove.] 1. A shrub.-2. A thicket; brushwood. Jamie son . [Scotch in both senses.] The lorde on a lyzt horce launces hym after, As burne bolde vpon bent his bugle he blowez, He rechated, & rode] thurz ronez ful thyk, Suande this wylde swyn til the sunne schafted. [Arber), § 14. Rondelet i a (ron-de-let'i-ä), n. [NL. (Plumier, 1703), named after Guillaume Rondelet (15071566?), a French profe or of medicine.) Agenus of gamopetalous shrubs and trees of the order Rubiaceæ , type of the tribe Rondel eticæ . It is characterized by a globose calyx bearing four or five narrow, persistent, and nearly equal lobes, by a wheel. rone (ron), n. An obsolete or dialectal form shaped or salver-form corolla with a long slender tube of rinel, run1 .