root borer (rotbor"er)

An insect which perforates the roots of plants: as, the clover root - borer, Hyles in us trifolii. root-bound (röt'bound), a. Fixed to the earth by roots; firmly fixed, as if by the root; immovable. And you a statue, or, as Daphne was, Root - bound , that fled Apollo. Milton , Comus, 1. 662. root-breaker (röt'brā"kėr), n . A machine for breaking potatoes, turnips, carrots, or other raw roots into small or moderate-sized pieces, in order to prepare them as food for cattle or horses. root-bruiser (röt'brö"zėr), n . Same as root breaker . root-built (röt'bilt), a . Built of roots. Philosophy requires No lavish cost; to crown its utmost prayer Suffice the root - built cell, the simple fleece, The juicy viand, and the crystal stream. Shenstone , Economy, i. root-cap (röt'kap), п. A cap-like layer of parenchymatous cells which occurs at the tip of growing roots. It may be several or many or only two or three layers of cells thick, the cells composing it being older, firmer, and in part effete, and serving to protect the active growing-point, which is immediately behind it. At the very end of the radicle they [the cells] are relatively large, and form a sort of cap-like covering ( root - cap ) for the smaller cells lying directly back (the growing point). Goodale, Physiol. Bot., p. 106. root-cellar (röt's el"är), n. A cellar or part of a cellar set apart for the storage of roots or tubers, as potatoes. Compare root - house, 2. root-crop (röt'krop), n. A crop of plants with esculent roots, especially of plants having single roots, as turnips, beets, or carrots. root-digger (röt'dig"er), п. In agri., a form of tongs with curved jaws for raising carrots and beets from the ground. root-eater (röt'ē"tėr), n. A rhizophagous marsupial; a member of the Rhizophaga; any root eating animal. root-eating (röt'ē"ting), a. Feeding habitually upon roots; rhizophagous. rooted (rö'ted or rút'ed), a. [ rootedly (rö'ted-li or rút'ed-li), adv. [ rooter1 (rö'ter or rüt'er), n. [ They require dividing and planting on fresh soil frequently, being strong rooters . The Field, LXVII. 338. rooter2 (rö'ter or rút'èr), n. [ root2 + -er1 .] One who or that which roots or roots up, or tears up by the roots; one who eradicates or destroys. The strongest champion of the Pagan gods, And rooter out of Christians. Mas singer, Virgin-Martyr, i. 1. rootery (rö'ter-i or rut'er-i), n.; pl. rooteries (-iz). [ root fast (röt'fast), a. [ mate divisions of a root; a rootlet; le properly, same as root - hair. root-footed (röt'füt" ed), a. Provided with pseudopodia. See pseudopodium and rhizopod. root-forceps (röt'for"seps), n. In dentistry, a forceps for extracting roots of teeth. root-form (röt'fôrm), n. A form a umed by an insect when radicicolous or living on roots, if different from some other form of the same insect: thus, the grape-vine pest, Phylloxera vas tatrix, is most destructive in its root - form. root-grafting (röt grafting), n. In hort., the proce of grafting scions directly on a small part of the root of some appropriate stock, the grafted root being then potted. root-hair (röt har), n. A delicate filament developed from a single cell (thus distinguished from a root-fibril) on the epidermis of the young parts of a root; a unicellular trichome borne on a root. The office of root-hairs is absorption, and they are often so numerous as greatly to enlarge the absorbent capacity of the root. As the surface ripens, they shrivel and disappear. See cut under root. root-headed (röt'hed"ed), a. Fixed as if rooted by the head; having a head like roots; rhizocephalous: as, the root - headed cirripeds. root-house (röt'hous), n. lodge built ornamentally of roots. 1. A rustic house or Winding forward down the valley, you pa beside a small root - house, where on a tablet are these lines. Shenstone, Works (ed. 1791), II. 289. 2. A house for storing up or depositing potatoes, turnips, carrots, cabbages, or other roots or tops, for the winter feed of cattle. root-knot (röt'not), n. A knot or excrescence of a root; specifically, an abnormal irregular growth of the subcortical layer of ti ue of roots and underground stems of various plants, shrubs, and trees, resulting from the attack of a nematoid worm, as a species of Anguillulidæ. rootle (rö'tl), v. t.; pret. and pp. rootled, ppr. rootling. [Freq. of root2.] To root up, as swine. root-leaf (röt'lēf), n. A radical leaf. See rad i Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] cal leaves, under radical. rootle (röt'- or rút'les), a. [ But by a long continuance, a stronge depe roted habitte, not lyke a rooteles tree, scante vp an end in a lose heape of light sand, that wil with a blast or two be blowen down. Sir T. More, Works, p. 130. 2. In zoöl., having a persistently open pulp-cavity and growing perennially, as the incisor teeth of rodents, and the molar teeth of many of these animals; not rooted so as to stop growing. See Rodent i a . rootlet (röt'- or rút'let), n. [ The tree whose rootlets drink of every river. Kingsley , Saint's Tragedy, v. 2. root-loop (rötʻlöp), n . An arch or bow in a root, standing out of the ground. root-louse (röt'lous), n . One of a number of radicicolous or root-feeding plant-lice of the IMG:content-2459.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-2460.png:[blocks in formation] root-sheath (röt's heth), n. root of a hair or feather, an invert of epidermis lining the follicle in which a hair or feather grows. See second cut under hair . rootstock (röt's tok), n . 1. In bot ., same as rhizome.-2. The original ground or cause of anything; a root. rooty (rö'ti or rut'i), a . [Also dial. rutty ; rooty ground. Along the shoare of siluer streaming Themmes, Whose rutty Bancke, the which his Riuer hemmes. Spenser, Prothalamion (ed. Grosart). Thrusts back a torrent that hath kept a narrow channell still, Nor can [it] with all the confluence break through his rooty sides. Chapman , Iliad, xvii. 2. Rank, as gra . Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] root-zone (röt'zōn), n . A region of the spinal cord traversed by or immediately adjacent to ropt, n. [Also rope (in pl. ropes ); rop (pl. roppes ), rop , irreg. roop (i. e. rop ), also hrop , an intestine, the colon, = MD. rop , intestine.] An intestine: commonly in the plural. His talowe also servythe for plastyrs mo than one; For harpe stryngis his Ropys seruythe Ichoone. ropalic, a . See rhopalic . ropel (rop), п . [ rop , roop , rope , rape , rāp , a rope, = OFries. rāp (in silrap ), cord, = D. reep , also roop = MLG. rep , reep = OHG. MHG. reif , a cord, string, circular band, fetter, circle, G. reif , ring, a rope, circular band, cir- cle, wheel, hoop, ferrule, = Icel. reip = Sw. rep = Dan. reb , a rope, = Goth. raips , a string (in comp. skauda - raips ), shoe-string: root un- certain. The word rope exists disguised in the second element of stirrup .] 1. A cord of con- sider able thickne ; technically, a cord over one inch in circumference. Ropes are usually made of hemp, manila, flax, cotton, coir, or other vege- table fiber, or of iron, steel, or other metallic wire. A hempen rope is composed of a certain number of yarns or threads, which are first spun or twisted into strands, and the finished ropes have special names according to the number and arrangement of the strands, and the va- rio us sizes are indicated by the circumference in inches. The ropes in ordinary use on board a ve el are composed of three strands, laid right-handed, or, as it is called (though this is not correct for southern latitudes), "with the sun." Occasionally a piece of large rope will be found laid up in four strands, also with the sun. This is gen- erally used for standing rigging, tacks, sheets, etc., and is sometimes called shroud- laid . In nautical language a rope is usually called a line . Furste to murte [broke] mony rop & the mast after. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), iii. 150. If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were oс- cupied, then shall I be weak. Judges xvi. 11. 2. A row or string consisting of a number of things united so as to form a cord more or le thick: as, a rope of onions; a rope of pearls. Lob down their heads, The gum down- roping from their pale-dead eyes. Shak ., Hen. V., iv. 2. 48. noun or verb. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 88. What lady I' the primitive times wore ropes of pearl or rubies? Jasper Mayne , City Match, ii. 2. 3. Anything glutinous or gelatinous which is drawn out in long strings. A pickled minnow is very good,... but I count him no more than the ropes in beer compared with a loach done properly. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, vii. 4. A local linear measure, twenty feet; in Devons hire, a measure of stonework, 20 feet in length, 1 foot in height, and 18 inches in thick- ne .- Cable-laid rope, a rope composed of nine strands. It is made by first laying the strands into three ropes of three strands each, right-handed; and then lay- ing the three ropes up together into one, left-handed. Thus, cable-laid rope is like three small common ropes laid up into one large one. Formerly the ordinary three- stranded right-hand rope was called hawser - laid , and the nine-stranded cable - laid , and they will be found so dist in- guished in books; but among seafaring men now the terms hawser-laid and cable - laid are applied indiscriminately to nine-stranded rope, and the three-stranded, being the usual kind of rope, has no particular name, or is called right - hand rope. See cut under cable-laid.-Cat-block rope. See cat - block . Clue-rope, a rope fastened to the clue of a course and used as a temporary tack or sheet.- Flat rope, a rope the strands of which are not twist- ed, but plaited together.- Hawser-rope, hawser-laid rope. See cable - laid rope . - Holy ropet. See holy .-In the rope, in the original twist or braid as delivered by the factory: said of horsehair used in upholstery, and of similar fibers which are put up in this form. - Laid rope, a rope that is twisted in strands. See cable - laid rope.- Left-hand rope, rope which is laid up and twisted from right to left, or "against the sun," as it is termed (see 1). Also called backhanded rope, water - laid rope.- Locked-wire rope, wire rope having the outer layer or layers of wires so made that they interlock each other. It is intended to prevent broken wires from springing out of place; the adjoining wires are supposed to hold them down. Manila rope, rope made from Manila hemp. See manila , 2.-On or upon the high ropes. (a) Elated; in high spirits. (b) Haughty; arrogant. He is one day humble, and the next day on the high Swift , Journal to Stella, xxxvi. ropes . Plain-laid rope, rope made by twisting three strands to- gether right-handed, or from left to right.-Right-hand rope, the three-stranded rope ordinarily used, which gen- erally bears this name: it is laid "with the sun" (see def. 1). See cable - laid rope , above. Rope bridge. See bridgel : -Rope driving-gear. See gear . Rope ladder, a lad. der made by connecting two long pieces of rope at regular intervals by shorter pieces, or by rounds of wood or metal. - Rope of sand, proverbially, a feeble union or tie; a band easily broken. - Rope's end, the end of a rope; a short piece of rope, often used as an instrument of punish ment. Buy a rope's end ; that will I bestow Among my wife and her confederates For locking me out of my doors by day. Shak., C. of E., iv. 1. 16. Shroud-laid rope, rope made by laying four strands to- gether right-handed: it takes its name from the use to which it is frequently applied. All four-stranded rope is made with a central strand called a heart , which a ists in keeping the others in place. Straw rope, a rope made of straw twisted. It is used to secure the thatch of corn-ricks and stacks, and also the thatch of poor cot- tages. Tapered rope, rope made larger at one end than 4. To tether, as a horse. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] 5. To inclose or mark off with a rope: as, a space in front of the pictures was roped off to prevent injury to them; a circle was roped out for the games.-6. To sew a bolt-rope on, as on a sail or an awning. - To rope in, to secure for some busine , social, or other enterprise: frequently with the idea of entanglement or disadvantage: as, I was roped in for this excursion before I knew it. [Slang, U. S.] rope2t, v. and n. A Middle English form of roop . rope3t, n. See rop . rope (rop), n. [Origin obscure.) A dwarf. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] rope-band (rop'band), n. A small piece of two- or three-yarn spun-yarn or marline, used to confine the head of a sail to the yard or gaff. Also roband . Dana . ropebark (rop'bärk), n . wood, Dirca palustris . See cut under leather- wood . rope-clamp (rõp'klamp), n . 1. A device con- sisting of a pair of clamping-jaws carrying a ring and hook, used for securing or attaching IMG:content-2461.png:[blocks in formation]