rother2 (roher)

[ rin derpest, > E. rinderpest, a cattle-plague), Goth. * hrinthis or * hrunthis (not recorded). Connection with horn is doubtful: see horn.] A bovine animal; a cow, or an animal of the cow kind. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] Foure rotheren hym by-forn that feble were [worthen]; Men myzte reken ich a ryb, so reufull they weren. Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 431. It is the pasture lards the rother's sides, The want that makes him lean. Shak., T. of A., iv. 3. 12. IMG:content-2499.png:[blocks in formation] found all over the world, in salt as well as fresh water, though chiefly in the latter; they often swarm in infusions with other animalcules; a few are parasitic. Many rotifers can be desiccated and kept in a dry state for months and still be revived by the application of moisture. Rotifer a (ro-tif'e-rä), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of Rotifer: see Rotifer.] A cla of animalcules, usually cla ified with or near the lowest worms, IMG:content-2500.png:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small] [In this pa age rother's is an emendation of brother's , which is given in most editions.] rother3 (готн ́er), n. [Abbr. of rother - soil .] Cattle-dung; manure. [Obsolete or local, Eng.] ganglion; g , setigerous pit. A bovine or rother-beast (roTH'er-best), n. rother. Hydatina sent a , one of the ill or i cate ploimate Rotifer a , magnified. A , female: a, anus; b, contractile vacuole c, water-ve els; e, ovary;, ganglion. B , male a , penis; b , contractile vacuole; c, tes- In both figures the conspicuous tis; IMG:content-2501.png:[blocks in formation] In Here ford shire the dung of such [horned] beasts is still called rother soyl. Kennett , MS. Lansd. 1033. ( Hall i well .) Rothesay herald. One of the six heralds of the Scottish Heralds' College.