Rotary

ro'ta-rT, a. Turning, as a wheel on axis; pert, to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis rotatory. [Fr. L. rota, Ga. and Ir. roth, Lithuan. ratas, G. rad, a wheel, Lithuan. rata i, Skr. ratha, a wheeled vehicle, to go round, roll, roioell, etc.] — Rot.iry pump. A m a c h n e consisting of one or more project in n acting as plungers, fixed to an axle and revolving in a cylindrical Tnl'o;^: Rotary Pump. cing fluids. — Ro'tate, -tat, (Bot.) Wheel-shaped. — v. To revolve or move round a center; to go out of office, and be succeeded by another, —v. eve, term In, ice 6dd, tone, 6r 515 ROTE 497 To cause to revolve. [L. rotare, -tatum, to revolve, rota.] — Rota'tion, n. Act of rotating or r n ing, as a wheel or solid body on its axis; any return or succe ion in a series; frequent change of crog on any piece of land, or of incumbents in Rotate Corolla. an office. [L. rotatio, fr. rotare.}—Ro'tative, a. Turning as a wheel; rotary. —Ro'tatory, a. Turning on an axis, as a wheel foin grot at or,in a circle a thing following that revolves.]in succe ion.— Rotund'',[Fr.a. Round; circular; spherical: complete; entire. [L. rotund us, rota. — Rotundity, -l-tY, w. State of being rotund; sphericity; circularity. — Rotun'da, -da, n. Any building that round both on the outside and inside.— Rotund'ifo'lious, -T-fo'lT-us, a. (Bot.) Having round leaves. [L. rotund us and folium, a leaf — Roue, roo-a', n. A debauchee; rake. [F., prop. p. p. of rotter, to break upon the wheel, fr. roue = L. rota, — orig. one deserving to be broken upon the wheel.]