rock hearted

Hard-hearted; unfeeling. rock-honey, subst. Honey made by bees having their nests or abodes among the rocks. (Cf. Psalm lxxxi. 16.) "The summer lengthen'd out his season bland, And with rock - honey flow'd the happy land." Words worth: Descriptive Sketches. rock-hopper, s. Ornith.: (See extract.) "In this scrub one of the crested penguins, probably Eudyptes chrysocoma, called by the sealers in common with other species of the genus Eudyptes, the rock -hopper, has established a rookery."-C. Wyville Thomson: Voyage of the Challenger , ii. 180. rock-kangaroos, s. pl. Zool .: The genus Petrogale (q. v.). rock-leather, s. The same as Rock-cORK (q. v.). rock-lily, 8. Bot .: Selaginella convoluta . rock-limpet, s. Zool.: The genus Patella (q. v.). [LIMPET.] rock-lychnis, s. Bot.: The genus Viscaria (q. v.). rock-manakin, s. IMG:content-0700.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0701.png:[blocks in formation] rock-slaters, s. pl. Zool.: The genus Ligia. [SLATER, II.] rock-snake, frock-serpent, s. Zobl.: A name sometimes given to any individual of the genus Python (q.v.). Rock-snakes are among the largest of living reptiles; specimens of eighteen and twenty feet long have been brought to this country, and trustworthy statements of the occurrence of individuals measuring thirty feet are on record; but their size and strength are often much exaggerated. They kill their prey by constriction, and swallow it whole, commencing with 3484 the head. During the digestion the animal is lazy and unwilling even to defend itself when attacked. "Rock-snakes are mostly arboreal, and prefer localities in the vicinity of water, to which the animal resorts for the purpose of drinking. They move, climb, and swim with equal facility." - Encyc. Brit. (ed. 9th), xx. 144. rock-staff, 8. The lever of a forge-bellows or other vibrating bar in a machine. rock-tar, s . Rock-oil; petroleum. rock-temple, s. A temple cut out of the solid rock, as at Ellora and other places in Hindu stan. rock-thrush, s . Ornith.: The genus Petrocincla (q. v.). rock-tripe, 8. [TRIPE DE ROCHE.] rock-violet, s. Bot.: Chroolepus jolithus . rock-wood, s. The same as FOSSIL-WOOD, 2. rock-work, s. 1. Stones fixed in mortar in imitation of the as IMG:content-0702.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To move backward and forward, as a body rest ing on a support beneath. It differs from swing in that the latter expre es the vibratory motion of something suspended, and from shake in denoting a slower and more uniform motion. 2. To shake. "The god whose earthquakes rock the solid ground." Pope: Homer's Iliad, xiii. 68. 3. To move backward and forward in the arms, chair, cradle, ., in order to induce sleep. "Rocked to rest on their mother's breast." Shelley: The Cloud. 4. To abrade the surface of a copper or steel plate, preparatory to scraping a mezzotinto. [CRADLE, s ., B. 5.] "There were secrets in the rocking of the copper plate which were only known to English men."- Pall Mall Ga zette . *II. Fig .: Τo lull, to quiet. "Sleep rock thy brain!" Shakesp.: Hamlet , iii. 2. B. In trans.: To be moved backward and forward. "The rocking town Supplants their footsteps." Philips: Cider , i. rock (2), v . t . [Rock (2), 8.] To throw stones at; to stone. ( Amer .) rock-a-way, s. [Eng. rock, v., and away. ] Vehicles: A kind of four-wheeled, two-seated carriage, with full standing top. rock-ě-lăy, rock'-lāy, s. [See def.] A roquelaure (q. v.). (Scotch.) rock-er, s. [Eng. rock (1), v.; -er.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. One who or that which rocks. "His fellow, who the narrow bed had kept, Was weary, and without a rocker slept!" Dryden: Cock and Fox, 228. 2. A rocking-horse (q. v.). 3. A low skate with a rounding sole. II. Technically: 1. Furniture: (1) A curved piece into which the two legs on the same side of a rocking-chair are inserted. (2) A curved piece underneath a child's cradle. 2. Engr.: A cradle. [CRADLE, 8., B. 5.] 3. Metall .: A trough in which particles of ore are separated from earth by agitation in water. [CRADLE, 8. , B. 4.] 4. Chem.: The congelation of a liquid is a isted by a slight agitation of its particles, which is effected in the ordinary proce of freezing ice cream by imparting an alternating semi-rotation to the ve el containing it. 5. Steam -eng.: A rock-shaft (q. v.). rocker-cam, s. Mach.: A vibrating cam. rocker-shaft, s. [ROCK-SHAFT.] rock-er-ý, s . [Eng. rock (2), s.; -ery.] An artificial mound of fragments of rocks, stones, and earth, raised in gardens or pleasure-grounds, for the cultivation of particular kinds of plants, as ferns, . *rock'-ět (1), 8. [ROCHET. (1).] rock-ět (2), *rok-at, s . [Fr. roquette , from Ital. ruchetta , dim in. from ruc a =garden-rocket, from Lat. eruca=a sort of colewort.] Bot .: A name given to various Cruciferæ: (1) The genus Hesperis (q. v.), and spec if. Hesperis matron alis , the Italian species, cultivated since 1597 in English gardens; (2) the genus Diplotaxis (q. v.) ( Sir J. Hooker ); (3) the genus Eruca, and spec if. Eruca sativa ( Loudon ); (4) Sisymbrium irio . rock-ět (3), *rok-ette, s . [O. Ital. rocchette =a bobbin to wind silk on, a rocket, dim in. from rocca =a distaff or rock; so named from its long, thin shape, somewhat resembling a bobbin for winding silk; Dan. & Sw. raket ; Ger. rackete , rakete .] 1. A cylindrical tube of paper or metal filled with a compre ed mixture of niter, sulphur, and charcoal, which on being ignited propels it forward by the action of the liberated gases against the atmosphere. Rockets are used for various purposes: as(1) In war : A military rocket is a projectile made and filled like a common rocket, but with a case of sheet-iron or Atlas metal, and a hollow head containing powder, thus forming a "shell." The sizes in use in the service are the 9-pounder and 24pounder. Formerly they were guided by the usual long rocket-stick screwed into a socket in the iron base of the case, but latterly this has been done away with, and the gas in i uing from the three vents impinges on three semicircular shields, causing the rocket to rotate, and steadying it. (2) For saving life at sea, by conveying a line to a stranded ve el. (3) As signals, or for mere pyrotechnic display. (4) For killing whales. (HARPOON-ROCKET.] 2. The lever by which a blacksmith's bellows is inflated. *3. A tilting-spear, having its point covered, so as to prevent injury. "Redy to iuste, and to abyde all comers curtesly to ron with rokettes." -Berners: Froi art; Chronycie, vol. ii. ch. clxxiii.