rorelt

A Middle English form of roar. rore2t, v. i. [ME. roren, rooren; origin obscure; perhaps a use of rorel, roar, cry (cf. roop, cry out, auction).] To barter or exchange merchandise. Rooryn or chaungyne on chaff are fro a nother. Prompt. Parv., p. 71, note 4. rore3 (ror), n. [L.ros (ror-), dew. Cf. rorid, rory, honey-rore, rosemary.] Dew. Compare honey -rore. roric (rõ'rik), a. [ roridt (ro'rid), a. [ IMG:content-2465.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2466.jpg:[graphic] Roridula Roridula (rō-rid'ū-lä), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1767), named from the dewy appearance of the glandular hairs covering the plant; dim. of L. rori dus, dewy: see rorid.] A genus of polypetalous plants of the order Droseraccæ, the sundew family. It is unlike the rest of the order in its three celled ovary, and is further characterized by a five-parted calyx, five petals, five stamens, their anthers with thickened connectives and dehiscent by terminal pores facing outward, and by the ovoid three-angled septifragal capsules, containing three large pendulous seeds. The 2 species are natives of the Cape of Good Hope. They are very leafy and glandular-hairy undershrubs, bearing narrow entire or pinnatifid leaves, circinately coiled in the bud, and rather large red or white two-bracted flowers forming a terminal raceme or spike. R. dentata is a shrubby herb 3 feet high, with the leaves so viscid that it is hung up as a flycatcher in Cape country-houses. roriferous (ro-rif'e-rus), a. [L. rorifer, dew bringing (> F. rorifère ), dew. rorifluent (rō-rif'lö-ent), a. [ 5228 a calyx of five lobes often alternating with five bractlets; by a calyx-tube sheathed by a disk which bears the five uniform petals and the one or more complete circles of numerous stamens; and by the usually several or many separate carpels inserted at the base or throat of the calyx tube, each with a basilar or ventral style, and usually with two anatropous ovules which are pendulous or ascending. Some yellow-or white-flowered species suggest by their appearance the buttercup family, Ranunculaceæ, but their numerous stamens and pistils are inserted on the calyx or disk, not on the receptacle. The rose family is closely allied to the Leguminosæ; but in that order the fifth petal, in this the fifth sepal, is nearest the axis of the plant. The resemblance is most strongly marked between the drupaceous Rosaccæ and the acacias. The order pa es gradually, through the spiræas, into the saxifrage family, but is distinguished in general by its inflorescence, its exalbuminous seeds, and its commonly numerous pistils. Its species are properly about 1,000, though over 2,000 have been enumerated. They are cla ed in 71 genera composing 10 tribes ( Chrysobalaneæ, Pruncæ, Spiræcæ, Quillaicæ, Rubeæ, Potentilleæ, Potericæ, Roseæ, Neuradeæ, and Pomer ). These are often grouped in 3 subfamilies, Drupaceæ, Pomaceæ, and Rosaceæ proper. They are natives both of temperate and of tropical regions, extending southward principally in the tribes Chrysobalaneæ and Quill a ice; 4 genera reach Australia, 4 South and 4 or 5 Chili. The chief home of the iline coloring matters of commerce; also, the color thus produced. Thus, fuchsin is the monohy- drochlorid and azalein the nitrate of rosaniline. Silk and wool dipped into aqueous solutions of any of the salts with- draw them from solution and become dyed at once. ton, on the other hand, does not withdraw the coloring matter, but must be first treated with a mordant of some animal substance, such as albumen. Also called aniline red, roseine, magenta , azalein . - Diphenyl rosaniline, an aniline dye giving a blue-violet color. - Rosaniline-blue. Same as spirit - blue . rosaria, n. A plural of rosarium . rosarian (rō-zāʼri-an), n . [L. rosarium , a rose- garden (see rosary ), + -an .] 1. A cultivator of roses; a rose-grower; a rose-fancier. 2. [ cap.] A member of the Fraternity of the Rosary. Another Rosarian recommends a special temporal intention. Rosarian, i. 378. ( Encyc. Dict.) qualus ): ( a ) Prob. Rorqual. red, + hvalr, whale.] A finner-whale of the genus Balænoptera, having short flippers, a dorsal fin, and the throat plicated. There are several species, and the name is sometimes extended to other cetaceans of the subfamily Balæno pterinæ. Some of these whales attain great size, the common rorqual, B. muscu lus, reaching a length of 60 or 70 feet, while the blue rorqual, B. sibbaldi or Sibbaldius maximus, is sometimes 80 feet, being thus the longest known mammal. Rudolphi's rorqual, B. borealis, is about 50 feet long; the le er rorqual, B. rostrata, 30 feet. These four are well established species in North Atlantic waters, though their synonymy has been much confused by the introduction and cro -use of various generic names. The sulphur-botrorulent (rõ rộ-lent), a. [L. rorulentus, full of dew, tomed whale of the Pacific is a rorqual, B. sulphurea. roryt (ro'ri), a. [ On Libanon at first his foot he set, And shook his wings, with rory May-dews wet. Fairfax , tr. of Ta o's Godfrey of Boulogne, i. 14. Rosa (ro'zi), n . [NL. (Tournefort, 1700), rosa , a rose: see rosel .] A genus of polypetalous plants, comprising all the genuine roses, type of the order Rosaccæ and sole genus of the tribe Roseæ . It is characterized by an urn-shaped calyx-tube with constricted mouth, bearing five leaf-like imbricated lobes, destitute of the intermediate bractlets which are frequent in related genera, but often furnished with similar smaller leaf-like lobes on their sides. It is also distinguished by the broad and open corolla of five obovate petals, numerous stamens in many rows, and many free carpels each with one pendulous ovule, a ventral style, and a somewhat dilated stigma, and each forming in fruit a one-seeded bony achene, the whole ma of achenes inclosed in a fleshy fruiting receptacle, known as the hip or hep. (See Rosaceæ.) The species are polymorphous and variable, and though 600 have been enumerated (exclusive of garden varieties), they are believed to be reducible to 50 or 55. They inhabit temperate and subalpine regions through a large part of the northern hemisphere, being limited southward by India, Aby in i a, and Mexico, and being le numerous in America than in the Old World. R. cinnamomea is said to be found as far north as Point Barrow in Alaska (71° 27'). Ten species are native in the northeastern United States, of which one, R. bland a, extends to Hudson's Bay. Five species are found in Great Britain, or, as they are sometimes cla ified, 20. They are erect or climbing shrubs, commonly with prickly stems, the leaves smooth, silky, or downy, or (in R. rubiginosa, the sweetbrier) beset with copious minute glands beneath and fragrant. The leaves are alternate and unequally pinnate, with adherent wing-like stipules and serrate leaflets; in R. berberifolia, a small yellow-flowered Persian species, they are reduced to a single leaflet or are replaced wholly by stipules. The flowers are large and beautiful, often fragrant, made double in cultivation by the transformation of part or all of the stamens into petals, and also so occurring rarely in the wild state. They are of numerous shades of red, white, and yellow, and often over 2 inches acro , in R. gigantea, of Upper Burma, reaching 6 inches. The scarlet or crimson fruit is often ornamental and sometimes edible. See rosel. Rosaceæ (rō-zāsē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Ju ieu, 1789), fem. pl. of L. rosace us: see rosaceous.] An order of polypetalous plants, of the cohort Rosales; the rose family. It is characterized by extends the extreme north. 25 species occur in Alaska, while the genera Alchemilla, Potentilla, and especially Dryas, furnish characteristic arctic plants, the last affording the most common plant found by the Greely arctic expedition, forming beds covering acres in the interior of Grinnell Land, and flourishing on Lock wood's island, latitude 83° 24' N. The order includes herbs, trees, and shrubs, either erect or prostrate, rarely climbing. Their leaves are generally alternate, either simple or compound, often with glandular teeth, accompanied by stipules, these being free or adherent to the petiole, which is frequently dilated at the base and gland-bearing at the summit. The flowers are very often showy, commonly red, white, or yellow, but not blue, of very various inflorescence, either solitary or in racemes, spikes, panicles, or cymes. The order offers examples of widely different types of fruit, as the drupe, pome, follicle, and (-umz, -ä). [L., a rose-garden: see rosary. ] A rose-garden. The rosarium must be both open and sheltered, a place both of sunshine and shade. Quarterly Rev. , CXLV. 369. rosary (rō'za-ri), n .; pl. rosaries (-riz). [ rosarie , later rosaire = Sp. Pg. It. rosario , a rosary, rosarium , a garland of roses to crown the image of the Virgin, a chaplet of beads used in prayers in honor of the Virgin, instituted by St. Dominic, a rosary, also a rose-bush, and, as in L., a rose-garden (hence used in ML. as a fanciful title for treatises or anthologies); neut. of rosarius , of roses, rosa , a rose: see rosel . In def. 8, sari us , adj., as above.] 1. A rose-garden. This moone is eke the rosaries to make With setes, or me may here sedes so we. achene, with many specialized fruiting bodies, as the rose- hip, the fleshy receptacle of the strawberry, and the drupe- tum or collection of small drupes found in the raspberry, and, with the addition of a fleshy receptacle, in the black- berry. The true berry and the capsule are, however, but seldom produced in this family. Many of the most val- ued fruit-trees belong here, as the apple, pear, plum, cherry, peach, and apricot; and many of the most com- mon ornamental flowering shrubs of cultivation, for which see Rosa (the type), Spiræa , Kerria , Photinia , Pyrus , Pru- nus , etc.; together with many weedy plants, as Agrimo- 2t. A rose-bush. nia, Geum, Potentilla. rosaceous (rō-zā'shius), a. [L. rosace us, made of roses, rosa, a rose: see roscl.] 1. In bot.: (a) Rose-like; having a corolla composed of several wide-spreading roundish petals, with the claws very short or almost wanting. (b) Of or pertaining to the order Rosacea.-2. In zoöl., of a rosy color; rose-red; rosy; roseate. rosal (ro'zal), a. [L. * rosalis, of roses (> Sp. rosal, rose-bush, = Pg. rosal, bed of roses), While thus from forth her rosall gate she sent Breath form'd in words, the marrow of content. Beedome, Poems (1641). ( Nares.) 2. In bot., typified by the order Rosacea: used by Lindley in his cla name rosal alliance. 3. Belonging to the cohort Rosales. Rosales (rō-zā lēz), n. pl. [NL. (Lindley, 1833), pl. of L. * rosalis: see rosal.] A cohort of dicotyledonous plants, of the polypetalous series Calycifloræ, characterized by distinct styles and solitary or numerous and separate carpels, not united into a syncarpic ovary as in the other cohorts of the series. The leaves are either compound or simple, and the flowers either regular or irregular, but commonly unisexual. It includes 9 orders, 3 of which are small families with a pendulous apical ovule the Ham am elideæ, trees and shrubs, Bruniaceæ, heathlike shrubs, and Halorageæ, chiefly aquatics; 1, a small family with parietal ovules-the Droseraceæ, glandular herbs; and the 5 others, families with ovules ascending or affixed to the central angle-the large orders nosæ, Rosaceæ, and Saxifragaceæ, together with the Con naraceræ, tropical trees and shrubs, and the Cra ulaceæ, fleshy herbs. rosalia (ro-zāʻli-a), n. [ F. rosa lie ): see def.] 1. In music, a form of melody in which a phrase or figure is repeated two or three times, each time being transposed a step or half step upward. The term is derived from the first word of an old Italian song in which such repetition was used. It is sometimes applied to repetitions in which the progre ion is downward or is by longer intervals than a step. 2. A kind of marmoset, the marikina.-3. [ cap.] [NL.] Inentom., a genus of cerambycid beetles. Serville , 1833.