rockу (1)

[Eng. rock (1), v.; -y.] Shaky, insecure, unsteady; hence, unfortunately, awkwardly. ( Stang. ) "Let him keep the fact of things having gone rocky with him as dark as he can."- London Daily Telegraph. rock-ỹ (2), a . [Eng.rock (2), s.; -y.] 1. Full of rocks; abounding with rocks. "What could I do, alas! encompa ed round With steepy mountains and a rocky ground?" Hoole: Orlando Furioso, ii. 2. Made or consisting of rocks or stone. "The rocky pavement glittered with the show." Pope : Homer's Iliad , xxiii. 249. *3. Resembling a rock; hence, hard, stony, obdurate, hard-hearted, hard as a rock. "Thy rocky and wreck-threatening heart." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece, 590. Rocky Mountain, a . IMG:content-0704.png:[blocks in formation] rõ cô cô, s. [French, from rocaille =rock-work, from the character of the style.] Art : A florid, debased kind of ornament, which succeeded the style adopted by Louis XIV. and XV., V., and which exaggerated the main features and peculiarities of that fashion. It is chiefly remarkable for the lavish abundance of its details, which are thrown together without propriety and due connection. Scroll and shell ornaments abound; sometimes rock-work pavilions, birds and fishes, combined with enormous flowers. The term is sometimes employed to denote a bad taste in design and ornament generally. ( Fairholt .) IMG:content-0705.png:[blocks in formation] (2) A kind of scepter or badge of office. "The rod and bird of peace and all such emblems." Shakesp.: Henry VIII ., iv. 1. (3) A long, slender, and tapering wand or stick, or two or more such sticks joined end on end for fishing; a fishing-rod. (4) Hence, used for the act or art of fishing. (5) A fisher; one expert with the fishing-rod; a rodster. "The late Sir F. Sykes, a first-rate rod, was run out and broken, with one hundred yards, on the same spot, but a few days before."- Fishing Gazette , Jan. 30, 1886. (6) A scale of wood or metal employed in measuring distances. (7) An enchanter's wand; a wand po e ing the power of enchantment. ( Milton : Comus , 816.) 3485 3. A unit of lineal measure used in land surveying, It is equal to 51⁄2 yards, or 16% feet. A square rod is the usual measure of brickwork, and is equal to 2724 square feet. *4. A shoot or branch of a family; a tribe, a race. ( Psalm lxxiv. 2.) II. Mach., & c .: A straight, slender piece of wood or metal, as the ramrod, wiping-rod, rifling-rod, used by gunsmiths and armorers; the coupling-bar or lengthening-bar of a drill-stock; a boring-bar, a connecting-rod, . (1) Rods and cones of the retina: Anat.: Elongated cylindrical rods, and short thick cones, situated between the external membrane and the pigmentary layer of the retina. (2) Rods of Corti : Anat .: Two sets of stiff, rod-like bodies, the inner and outer rods of Corti, within the epithelium covering the basilar membrane of the ear. Together they constitute the Organ of Corti. (3) To ki the rod : [Ki , v . 1 (4).]