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[ Rogate Sunday. Same as Rogation Sunday. rogation (rō-gā'shon), n. [OF. rogation, ro gasion (pl. rogations, Rogation days), F. roga tion = Pr. rogazo, roazo = Sp. rogacion = Pg. rogações, pl., prayers in Rogation week, = It. rogazione, He [Bishop Mamercus] perfect eth the Rogations or Litanies before in use. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 41. Rogation days, the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Ascension day. The special observance of these days with fasting and rogations (litanies and public proce ions) was first introduced by Mamertus or Mamercus, bishop of Vienne in southern France, about A. D. 470, at a time of general distre arising from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, and other troubles. It soon became general in Gaul, and spread to England. In the Roman Catholic Church (which adopted the observance about 800) the Litany of the Saints is said in proce ion on these days. In the Anglican Church the Rogation days are appointed days of fasting or abstinence, and it was formerly the custom to say the Litany, to read the homily and exhortation given in the Book of Homilies, and to perambulate the parish. The custom of perambulation (which see) is still days. Rogation Sunday, the Sunday preceding Ascension day. - Rogation-tide, the time of Rogation days.Rogation week, the week in which the Rogation days occur. Also called proce ion week, cro - week, gang - week. observed in some places in England. Also called gang rogation-flower (ro-ga's hon-flou"èr), n . An Old World milkwort, Polygala vulgar is , which blooms during Rogation week and was carried = deór Icel. raudhdýri = Sw. rådjur = Dan. raadyr; as roel + deer.] A species of the genus Capreolus, C. capræa or caprea, formerly Cervus capreolus, of small size, elegant form, and very agile, inhabiting most parts of Europe, including Great Britain, and parts of Asia; a roebuck or roe. The animal is only about 2 feet 3 inches high at the shoulder, and weighs 50 or 60 pounds; it is of a reddish-brown or grayish-brown color, with a large white disk on the rump, and very short tail. The antlers of the male are about a foot long, erect, cylindric, and branching toward the tip. See cut under roe buck. rogatory (rog'a-to-ri), a. [= F. rogatoire = It. rogatorio, by consenting that their judges may accept rogatory comMany countries aid one another's judicial proceedings mi ions, or act as agents of foreign courts for the purpose of examining witne es or otherwise ascertaining facts. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, §76. See letter3. Letters rogatory. roger (roj'ér), n. sonal name Roger , ger, G. Rudiger . Cf. robin1.] 1. A ram. See Collins Miscellanics (1742), p. 116. ( Hall i well .) [A familiar use of the per OF. Roger, MS . Cantab. Ff. ii. 6, f. 116. ( Hall i well .) [Early mod. E. also roag , roge ; rogue , presumptuous, malapert, rude, hence used in E. as a noun, a surly fellow, a vagabond; prob. rok , rog , arrogant, proud, haughty, brusk; cf. Ir. Gael. ruc as , pride, arrogance.] 1. A vagrant; a sturdy beggar; a tramp. Persons of this character were, by the old laws of England, to be punished by whipping and having the ear bored with a hot iron. Wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? Shak ., Lear, iv. 7. 39. Ros . Methinks 'tis pity such a lusty fellow Should wander up and down, and want employment. Bel . She takes me for a rogue ! - You may do well, madam, To stay this wanderer, and set him a-work, forsooth. Fletcher, Wild goose Chase, ii. 3. 2. A knave; a dishonest person; a rascal: applied generally to males. We're bought and sold for English gold - Such a parcel of rogues in a nation. Burns , Farewell to a' our Scottish Fame. IMG:content-2415.jpg:[graphic] 3. A sly fellow; a wag. The satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 197. 4. A mischievous or playful person: applied in slight endearment to children or women. Compare roguish , 3. Ah, you sweet little rogue , you! Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 233. What, rob your boys? those pretty rogues ? Pope , Imit. of Horace, I. vii. 27. 5. A rogue elephant (which see, under elephant ). -6. A plant that falls short of a standard required by nurserymen, gardeners, etc. When a race of plants is once pretty well established, the seed-raisers do not pick out the best plants, but merely go over their seed-beds, and pull up the rogues, as they call the plants that deviate from the proper standard. Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 42. Rogue elephant. See elephant. - Rogue-money, in Scotland, an a e ment laid on each county for defraying the expense of apprehending offenders, maintaining them in jail, and prosecuting them. - Rogues and vagabonds, an appellation under which, in English law, fall various cla es of persons who may be summarily committed, such as fortune-tellers, persons collecting alms under false pretenses, persons deserting their families and leaving them chargeable to the parish, persons wandering about as vagrants without visible means of subsistence, persons found on any premises for an unlawful purpose, and others. Rogues and vagabonds may be summarily committed to prison for three months with hard labor. See vagrant. - Rogues' gallery, a collection of photographs of notorious law-breakers, kept at police headquar ters. Rogue's march. See march2. - Rogue's yarn, a rope-yarn distinguishable from the rest of the yarns in a rope, serving to identify rope made in government dock-yards. In rope made in United States navy-yards the rogue's yarn is twisted in a contrary direction to the others, and is of manila in hemp rope and of hemp in manila rope. -Wild roguet, a vagrant by family inheritance. A wilde Roge is he that is borne a Roge: he is more subtil and more geuen by nature to all kinde of knauery than the That bemoth in Ebrew ys opunly to say - "A Roid beste vnreasonable, that no Rule holdes." Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4428. rogue (rog), v .; pret. and pp. rogued , ppr. ro- guing. [Early mod. E. also roge ; rogue , n.] I. in trans. 1. To play the rogue; play knavish tricks. [Rare.] And roguing virtue brings a man defame, A packstaff epithet, and scorned name. 2t. To wander; tramp; play the vagabond. Yf he be but once taken soe idlye roging , he may punnish him more lightlye, as with stockes or such like. Spenser , State of Ireland. It may be thou wast put in office lately, Which makes thee rogue me so, and rayle so stately. Hit the hathill o the hede in his hote angur, And rent hym doun roidly ryght to the sadill. roignet, n. See roin . roill+ (roil), v. i. [ roilen , roylen , prob. a var. of roulen , roll, used in the same sense: see roll (I., 12), and cf. roil2 .] To run; wander; roll; rove. Rizt so, quod Gregorie, religioun roileth , Sterueth and stynketh and steleth lordes alme es, That oute of couent and cloystre coueyten to lib be. Piers Plowman (B), x. 297. The fletynge strem that royleth doun diversly fro hy mountaygnes is a rested and resisted ofte tyme by the en- countrynge of a stoon. Chaucer , Boëthius, i. meter 7. roil2 (roil), v . t . [Formerly also royle ; also dial. rile (sometimes spelled ryle ), the common colloq. form in the U. S. (cf. oil , dial. ile , point , dial. pint , etc.). (a) According to Stratmann, roill , roll . ( b ) In another view, prop. rile , and orig. as a noun, ME. ryal , riall , foam, fermentation; per- haps roille , rouille , F. rouille = Pr. roill , rust, mildew, fungous growth, ult. robigo , rogueship (rōg's hip), n. [ rogue + -ship .] The character or state of a rogue; also, a ro- guish person. [Rare.] Ramb . Rank and rotten, is she not? Shave. Your spittle rogueships Shall not make me so. roguish (ro'gish), a . [ rogue + -ish1.] Vagrant; vagabond. Let's follow the old earl, and get the Bedlam To lead him where he would: his roguish madne Allows itself to any thing. IMG:content-2416.png:[blocks in formation] up the dregs or sediment: as, to roil wine, cider, or other liquor in casks or bottles. The lamb down stream roiled the wolf's water above. Roger North , Examen, p. 359. ( Davies .) I had dug out the spring and made a well of clear gray water, where I could dip up a pailful without roiling it. Thoreau , Walden, p. 245. I thirst for one cool cup of water clear, But drink the riled stream of lying breath. Jones Very, Poems, p. 78. 2. To excite to some degree of anger; annoy; vex: now more commonly, in colloquial use, world,... and the most generous, and the most cordial - that you have; only you do rile me when you sing that confounded May fair twang. Thackeray , Philip, xvii. 3. To perplex. [Local.]-4. To salt (fish) by roil3+, n. [Early mod. E. royle ; roile , royle; origin uncertain.] A Flemish horse. Polidamas the prise horse presit vnto, Raght to the Reyne, and the Roile toke. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 8337. By the good swim minge of horses many men haue ben saued, and contrary wise, by a timorouse royle , where the water hath uneth come to his bely, his legges hath foltred, wherby many a good and propre man hath per is shed. IMG:content-2417.png:[blocks in formation] roister (rois'tėr), n . [ Also royster ; tre , a ruffian, roister, a particular use (with un- original r) of OF. ruste , ruiste , a rustic, F. rus- tique : see rustic .] 1. A rioter; a blusterer; a roisterer. [Obsolete or archaic.] They must not part till they have drunk a barrell, Or straight this royster will begin to quarrel. Times ' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 60. The natives were an honest, social race of jolly roysters, who had no objection to a drinking bout, and were very merry in their cups. Irving , Knickerbocker, р. 92. A gang of merry roistering devils, frisking and curveting on a flat rock. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 348. Her brother lingers late With a roystering company. IMG:content-2418.png:[blocks in formation] G. Harvey, Four Letters. roisterly (rois'ter-li), adv . [ roisterly , a .] In a bullying, violent manner. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, i. 17. roisterous (rois'tėr-us), a . [ roister + -ous.] Violent; blustery; uproarious. [Rare.] Was the like ever heard of? The roysterous young dogs; carolling, howling, breaking the Lord Abbot's sleep! Carlyle, Past and Present, ii. 15. roitelet (roi'te-let), n . [Also roytelet ; telet , a petty king, a wren (Cotgrave), dim. of roi , a king: see roy .] 1. A little or petty king; a royalet. roiler (roi'lėr), n . [ roil2 + -er1 .] A machine for salting small fish, as a revolving box turned by means of a crank. [North Carolina.] roily (roi'li), a . [Also dial. rily , riley ; roil2 + -y1.] Muddy; turbid: as, roily water. Then flow away, my sweety sap, And I will make you boily; roint (roin), n . [Also royne ; roine , roigne , The state or OF.roingne , rogne , rongne , scurf, mange, scabrok, n . bine , itch, F. rogne , itch, = Pr. ronha , runha = Cat. ronya = Sp. roña = Pg.ronha = It.rogna , itch; perhaps robigo , rubigo ( -gin- ), rust, mildew, also sore, ulcer, scab: see ronion .] A roguyt (ro'gi), a . [ rogue + -y1.] Knavish; dishonest. [Rare.] Car . Gipsies, and yet pick no pockets? Alv . Infamous and roguy ! Wele colouret by course, clene of his face, Rede roicond in white, as the Roose fre he. IMG:content-2419.png:[blocks in formation] roinoust (roi'nus), a. [Also roynous ; rongneux (= Pr. rognos , ronhos , runhos = Cat. ronyos = Sp. roñoso = Pg. ronhoso = It.rognoso ), mangy, scabby; perhaps robiginosus , rusty, mangy, etc., robigo ( robigin- ), rust: see roin . ] Scabby; rough; crooked; worthle . The foule croked bowe hidous, That knotty was and al roynous . This argument is al roignous ; It is not worth a croked brere. rok a (rō'kä), n. A large East African tree, Trichilia emetic a , whose fruit is considered emetic, and whose seeds yield a fatty oil. rokambole, n. See rocambole . roke (rok), n . [ roke , a var. of reke (= OD. roke , etc.): see rcek1 .] Mist; smoke; damp. IMG:content-2420.png:[blocks in formation] rokeage, rokee (rõ kāj, rõʻkē), n . cheage, yokeage , yokeague ; Amer. Ind.; orig. form uncertain. Cf. nocake .] Indian corn parched, pulverized, and mixed with sugar: commonly called pinole . [Local, U. S.] rokelay (rok'e-lā), n. Same as roquelaure . roker (ro'ker), n . [Prob. connected with roach , and thus ult. with ray2 .] A species of Raia ; especially, the thornback ray. N. and Q., 7th ser., VIL 146. Into lobsters and crabs which have become by reason of age of lighter weight are introduced portions of fresh haddock or roker . Lancet, No. 3455, р. 105 Middle English forms of Troy (E. E. T. S.), rokett, rokettelt, n. of rochet. Destruction 1. 13525. Rolandic (rō-lan'dik), a. [