rodent i a (t as sh)

pl. [Lat. neut. pl. of rodens, pr. par. of rodo to gnaw.] [RODENT.] 1. Zool.: An order of terrestrial, diphyodont, placental mammals, rarely arboreal or natatorial, of small size; two long curved incisors in each jaw, growing from persistent pulps. No canines; molars and premolars rarely more than four in each jaw, Feet usually pentadactylous, armed with claws; lars buk; Sw. rá=a roe, ra - boch roebuck: Dut. rec =a roe, reebok roebuck; Ger. reh, rehbock.]. 1. A roebuck (q. v.). "The roe's much swiftne doth no more avail, Nor help him now, than if he were a snail." Drayton: Noah's Flood. 2. The female of the hart. rõe (2), *roan, *rowne, s . [Prop. roan , the n being dropped from the erroneous idea that it was a plural suffix, as in oxen , shoon, .; Icel. hrogn; Dan. rogn ; Sw.rom; Ger. rogen .] 1. The spa'n or sperm of fishes. (That of the male is termed milt or soft roe, that of the female hard roe or spawn.) 2. A mottled appearance in wood, especially in mahogany, being the alternate streak of light and shade running with the grain, or from end to end of the log. roe-stone, s. [OÖLITE.] rõe-buck, roo-bukke, s. [ROE (1).] Zool.: Capreolus caprea , an elegant, small, and almost taille deer, still surviving in the woods of West more land and Cumber land, England, and in Scotland, and common in the north of Europe and Asia below the snow-line. The adult male stands about two feet high at the shoulder; color reddish-brown in summer, becoming yellowish-gray in antlers, about a foot long, are nearly clos the base, and po e three points. In disposition the Roebuck is wild and shy, and its flesh makes indifferent venison. The female produces two or three at a birth. [CAPREOLUS.] close at hallux, when present, not differing from other large patch of white on the rump. The digits. The incisors are adapted for continuous gnawing, and their action is a isted by the long i- tudinal position of the condyle of the lower jaw, in consequence of which the jaw can be moved back ward and forward. They are divided into two sub- orders: (1) Simplicidentata, which never have more than two incisors in the upper jaw; and (2) Duplicident at a, which, when adult, have two rud i- mentary behind the normal incisors in the upper jaw. 2. Palæont.: The oldest remains are from the Upper Eocene of Europe and America; but as all the remains of the Rodent i a can either be cla ed in, or are closely related to existing families, their first appearance must be sought for much farther back in time.