roodebok

[Dutch rood=red, and bok =a buck.] Zoology: Cephalopus nat a lens is , the Natal Bush Buck. Color bright bay, with short conical horns. It inhabits the thick brushwood of the forests about Natal and the country to the eastward. roôd'-peër, s. [Eng.rood, and peer (?).] Bot.: Phoberos ecklonii. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0721.png:[blocks in formation] near the abodes of man. They are very widely dis- tributed. The adult male is from eighteen to twenty-two inches long; plumage black, glo ed with purple on the upper parts, lower surface of wing and tail-quills lustrous, dark grayish-black; legs, toes, and claws black. Base of beak, forehead, lores, chin, and throat bare, but the cause of this nudity is not known. Some a ert that the feathers are abraded as the bird digs in the ground for food; others, that it is a natural peculiarity. The female is rather le than the male, and her plumage is not so brilliant. White and other varieties often occur. Their nest is about two feet in diameter; eggs four to six in number, bluish-green, blotched with brown. Rooks by agriculturists is a question which general opin. ion seems to have settied by considering that the damage, though often great, is much more than outweighed by the services rendered in the destruction of millions of [RUCK, v.] To cower, to ruck, to rook'd her on the chimney-top." Shakesp.: Henry V1., Pt . III ., v. 6. [Eng.rook (1), v.; -er.] A cheat, "Rookers and sharpers work their several ends."- Ken- net: Erasmus; Praise of Folly , p. 76. 1. A wood, or grove of trees, used by rooks for nesting places. 2. Rocks, ., frequented by sea-birds for laying their eggs; a resort of seals for breeding purposes. [PENGUIN-ROOKERY.] Were the grac'd person of our Banquo present." Shakesp.: Macbeth , iii. 4. IMG:content-0722.png:[ocr errors] *roок-ў, а. [Eng. rook (1), s.; -y.] Inhabited by rooks. "Light thickens; and the crow Shakesp.: Macbeth , iii. 2. *6. A box or seat at a play. ( Marston .) *7. Family, company. IMG:content-0723.png:[blocks in formation] To go (or put ) roomer : Naut .: To tack about before the wind. the Cape."- Hackluyt : Voyages , vol. ii., pt. ii., p. 56. roôm-er, s. [Eng.room; -er.) A lodger. ( U. S. Colloq.) roôm'-ful, a . & s . [Eng. room (1), s.; -ful(l).] *A. As adj .: Full of room or rooms; roomy. "Now in a roomful house this soul doth float." Donne: Progre of the Soul . *2. A place, a station. *roômth, subst. [Eng.room (1), s.; suff. -th , as in "When thou art bidden by any man to a wedding, sit length, .] not down in the highest room."- Luke xiv. 8. 1. Room. "To have an enjoy that office and room."-Holinshed: Scotland (an. 1543). 4. Place or station once occupied by another; stead, as in succe ion or substitution. "Let this supply the room ." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . III ., ii. 6. bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-0724.png:[blocks in formation] *roômth-, *roomth-ie, a. [Eng. roomth; -y.] Roomy, spacious. "The land was far roomthier than the scale of miles doth make it."-Fuller: Holy War , p. 28. roôm-ỹ, a . [Eng. room (1), s.; -y.] 1. Having or affording ample room; spacious, wide. "Ours is a weedy country because it is a roomy one." Burroughs: Pepacton , p. 271. 2. Big; broad or wide in frame. "She is a big roomy bitch, too."- Field , Dec. 6, 1884. roôn, s . [A. S., Sw., ., rand =a border ( Jamie son).] A shred; a border or selvage. ( Scotch .) "In thae auld times, they thought the moon Wore by degrees, till her last roon ." Burns: To William Simpson. (Post.) roôn, roone, s. & a. [Etym. doubtful.] A. As subst .: Vermilion. "I schalle yeve the a nobylle stede. Also rede as ony roone." MS. Cantab., Ff. ii., 38, fo. 66. B. As adj.: Red as vermilion. roôp, s. [RoOP, v.] 1. A cry, a call. 2. Hoarsene . (Prov.)