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The Mous- Trap (1606). ( Hall i well, under porpentine.) rooster (rös'ter), n. 1. The male of the domestic hen; a cock, as distinguished from the female or hen. [U.S.] A huge turkey gobbling in the road, a rooster crowing on the fence, and ducks quacking in the ditches. S. Judd , Margaret, ii. 1. 2. Any bird that roosts; a percher. See In se ores . Almost all birds are roosters. R. G. White, Words and their Uses, p. 182. root1 (röt or rút), n. [ rote , rot (acc. pl. rota , occurring in connection with barc (see bark2 ) in a fragment printed in AS. Leechdoms, I. 378), rot = Sw.Norw. rot = Dan. rod , a root, the lower part of a tree, a root in mathematics; prob. orig. with initial w (Icel. v , reg. lost before r ), Icel. * vrōt = AS. * wrot , a collateral form of wyrt = OHG. MHG. roots, however - chiefly the tap-roots of biennials-serve the special purpose of storing nutriment for a second season, becoming thus much enlarged, as in the beet and turnip. Roots of this cla must be distinguished from the rhizome, bulb, etc., which, though subterranean, are modifications of the stem. Numerous plants put forth aërial roots, eventually reaching the soil (banian, mangrove), IMG:content-2453.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Fibrous Roots of Poa annua. 2. Root of Daucus Carota: R, tap root; r, r, rootlets. 3. Aërial Roots of Oncidium ciliatum. 4. Tuberous Reots of Anemone thalictroides. 5 Root-hairs of Yucca gloriosa (highly magnified). serving as means of climbing (ivy, poison-ivy), or, in the case of epiphytes, part fastening the plant to a bough, part free in the air, whence they are capable of absorbing some moisture. The roots of a parasitic plant penetrate the ti ues of the host-plant and draw their nutritive matter from it. True roots are confined to flowering plants and vascular cryptogams, the rhizoids of many lower plants in part taking their place. See annual , biennial , perennial . See also cuts under ivy , mono cotyle dan ous , prothallium, and rhizome. An oak whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 1. 31. ( b ) Specifically, an esculent root, as a beet or a carrot. But his neat cookery! he cut our roots In characters. Shak ., Cymbeline, iv. 2. 49. 2. That which resembles a root in shape, position, or function; that from which anything springs. ( a ) The part of anything that resembles the root of a plant in manner of growth, or as a source of nourishment, support, or origin; specifically, in an at . and zool ., some part or organ like or likened to the root of a plant; the deepest or most fixed part of something embedded in another; a base, bottom, or supporting part: technically called radix : as, the root of a finger-nail or a tooth; the root of a nerve or a hair: often used in the plural, though the thing in fact is singular: as, to drag out a nail by the roots . The colde blode that was at our lordes herte rote Fell within Iosephes sherte & lay on his chest.