rover (rover)

i. [ sect, Bledius cord at us. roveryt (rō'vėr-i), n. [ reavery, robbery.] The action of a rover; piratical or predatory roving. These Norwegians, who with their manifold robberies and roveries did most hurt from the Northern Sea, took up their haunt into this Iland. Holland , tr. of Camden, II. 205. ( Davies .) rovescio (rō-vesh'iō), n. [It., var. of rivescio, the reverse, the wrong side, = Sp. Pg. reves = F. revers, revers us , reverse: see reverse . The It. Sp. Pg. forms are irregular, and indicate confusion or borrowing from the F.] In music , imitation either by reversion or by inversion. See imitation , 3. roving1 (ro'ving), n. [Verbal n. of rovel, v.] 1. The act of rambling or wandering. The numberle rovings of fancy, and windings of language. Barrow , Sermons, I. 177. ( Latham .) 2. Archery as practised by a rover. See ro ver, 4. row Prepostrous Wits, that cannot rowe at ease On the smooth Chanell of our common Seas. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 4. 2. To be moved by means of oars: as, the boat rows easily. - Rowed of all, an order given to oarsmen to stop rowing and unship the oars. To row dry. (a) To handle the oars in rowing so as to avoid splashing water into the boat. (b) To go through the motions of rowing in a boat swung at the davits of a ship, as a sailor in punishment for some offense connected with boats or rowing. The forced exercise is called a dry row. [Colloq. IMG:content-2542.png:[blocks in formation] row2 (ro), n. [Also dial.rew; To hakke and he we The okes olde and leye hem on a rewe . My wretchedne unto a row of pins, They'll talk of state. Shak ., Rich. II., iii. 4. 26. Chaucer , Knight's Tale, 1. 2008. The bright Seraphim, in burning row , Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow. roving2 (ro'ving), n. [Verbal n. of rove2 , v.] 1. The proce of giving the first twist to 2t. A line of writing. ton; a rove. roving-frame (rõ'ving-frām), n. 1. In cotton Milton , Solemn Music. Which whoso willeth for to knowe, He moste rede many a rowe In Virgile or in Claudian, IMG:content-2543.png:[blocks in formation] united, stretched, and compacted into rovings. Sometimes called roving - machine . See draw- ing-frame.-2. In worsted-manuf., a machine which takes two slivers from the cans of the drawing-frame, elongates them four times, and twists them together. Also called roving - head. E. H. Knight. roving-head (rō'ving-hed), n . Same as roving- frame , 2. rovingly (rō'ving-li), adv . In a roving or wan- A ma dering manner. roving-machine (rō'ving-ma-shēn"), n. chine for winding slubbings on bobbins for creels of spinning-machines. roving ne (ro'ving-nes), n. A state of roving; disposition to rove. roving-plate (ro'ving-plāt), n. An iron or steel scraper which is held at an inclination against the grinding-surface of a rotating grindstone, for giving it a true circular form, scraping off ridges, or obliterating grooves that may be formed in it by the grinding of pointed or curvilinear-edged tools. roving-reel (ro'ving-rēl), n. suring the length of a roving, sliver, or hank of yarn, etc. It consists e entially of two flat-faced wheels, between which the yarn is made to pa , the revo A device for mea lutions of one of the wheels, as turned by a crank, being recorded by a dial and serving to measure the yarn. rowl (ro), v. [ rowen , rouwen (pret. rowede, earlier (and still as a survival) rew , Next to thyself and my young rover , he's Apparent to my heart. Shak ., W. T., i. 2. 176. reow ), rowan (pret. reów ) = D. roeijen = I'd be a Butterfly; living, a rover , Dying when fair things are fading away! T. H. Bayly , I'd be a Butterfly. Hence-3. A fickle or inconstant person. Man was formed to be a rover, Foolish women to believe. Mendez , Song in the Chaplet. ( Latham .) 4. In archery : (a) A person shooting at a mark with a longbow and arrow, or shooting merely for distance, the position of the archer being shifted with every shot, and not confined to a staked-out ground. The flight-arrow was used by the rover. (b) An arrow used by a rover. See flight - arrow . O yes, here be of all sorts - flights, rovers , and butt shafts. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 3. MLG. rõien, rōjen, rōen, LG. rojen = MHG. ruon, rūgen, rūen, rüejen = Icel. rõa = Sw. ro =Dan. roe, row; akin to OIr. rām, an oar, L. rēmus, an oar, Gr. ἐρετμόν, an oar, ἐρέτης, a rower, Skt. ari tra, a rudder, paddle, etc., ✓ ar, drive, push. Hence ult. rudder1.] I. trans. 1. To impel (a boat) along the surface of water by means of oars. In ancient times rowing was the chief means of The bloody rowes stremed doune over al, They him a ayled so maliciously. Lamentation of Mary Magdalene , 1. 120. 4. A hedge. Hall i well . [Local, Eng.]-5. A continuous course or extent; a long pa age. [This sense, now obsolete in general use, appears in the unique Rows of Chester in England, which are open public galleries or lines of pa age running along the fronts of the houses in the principal streets, generally over the first stories, covered by the projecting upper stories, lined with shops on the inner side, and reached by stairs from the street.] 6. A line of houses in a town, standing contiguously or near together; especially, such a line of houses nearly or quite alike, or forming an architectural whole: sometimes used as part of the name of a short street, or section of a street, from one corner to the next.-7. In organ - building, same as bank1, 7, or keyboard. A hard or a long row to hoe. See hoel. - Harmonic row. See harmonic. To hoe one's own row. See hoe1. row2 (ro), v. t. [ Bid her wear thy necklace row'd with pearl. Parnell , Elegy to an Old Beauty.