rhombic, rhombick

[Eng. rhomb; -ic.] 1. Ord. Lang.: Having the figure or shape of a rhomb. "Many other sorts of stones are regularly figured; the asteria in form of a star, and they are of a rhombick figure."-Grew. *2. Crystall.: Orthorhombic (q. v.). rhombic-mica, s . [PHLOGOPITE.] rhom-bo-, pref . shape of a rhomb. [RHOMB.] With the form or rhom-bō-hê-dral, adj. [Eng. rhombohedr ( on ); -al .] 1. Geom.: Pertaining or relating to a rhombohedron; having forms derived from the rhombohedron. 2. Crystall.: A crystal system in which all the forms are, or can be, derived from one or more rhombohedrons, or which have the habit of a rhombohedron (q. v.). rhom-bō-hê-dron, s. [Pref. rhombo-, and Gr. hedra =a base, a side.] Geom. & Crystall .: A polyhedron bounded by six equal rhombuses. rhom-boid, a. & s. [Greek rhomboeidēs , from rhombos =a rhomb, and eidos =form, appearance.] A. As adjective : IMG:content-0607.png:[blocks in formation] Snorting. rhon-chus ( pl. rhonchi), s. [Latin, from Gr. Thongchos.] Physiol. & Pathol .: A "dry" sound, heard by auscultation, in acute bronchitis, in the larger bronchial tubes. Sibilant rhonchi are heard also in asthma. rhône, s. [RONE, s.] A rain-water pipe. ( Scotch.) rhoō-dě-bok, s. [ROODEBOK.] rhō-păl-ic, a. [Greek rhopalon = a club which gradually becomes bigger from the handle to the top.] Pros.: Applied to a line in which each succe ive word has a syllable more than the one preceding it. (Browne: Miscel. Tract 7.) Rem tibi confeci, docti ime, dulcisonorum. Hope ever solaces miserable individuals. rhō-pa-lõç-er-a, s . pl . [Gr. rhopalon = a club, and keras a horn. So named from the thickened club-like termination of the antenne.] Entom.: Butterflies. [BUTTERFLY, II.] rhō-păl-o-don, subst . [Greek ropalon =a club; -odon. ( Bull . Soc . Imp . Nat ., Moscou , xiv. 460.)] Palæont.: A genus IMG:content-0608.png:[merged small][graphic][merged small] rhō-ta-çiş-mus, s. [ROTACISM.] rhû barb, *reu-barbe, *rew-barb, *ru-barbe, 8. & a . [O. Fr. rheubarbe (Fr. rhubarbe ), from Low Lat. rheubarbarum ( = rheüm barbarum ), from Gr. rheon bar bar on = rhubarb; lit. the rheüm from a barbarian country. Greek rheon is an adjectival form, from Rha , the old name of the Volga, on the banks of which the rhubarb is indigenous. Spanish riubarbo : Port. rheubarbo; Ital. reubarbaro , reo barbaro .] rhubarbaric A. As substantive: 1. Bot.: [RHEUM.] 2. Hort ., & c .: The common Garden Rhubarb is Rheum rhaponticum , though some of the red-stalked rhubarb is from R. undulatum . The former plant has broadly cordate leaves, strongly veined beneath. The footstalks are long, thick, and fleshy, with a channel above. Its growth is exceedingly rapid. It was brought, about 1573, from the Volga, where it is wild. Since 1820 the stalks have been used for tarts, and made into jam. [PIEPLANT.] 3. Pharm .: Three leading kinds of rhubarb are recognized: (1) The Turkey or Ru ian rhubarb, which is wild neither in the one country nor the other, but used to be brought from China via Turkey, and then from China via Ru ia; (2) the East Indian, and (3) the Batavian rhubarb. An extract, an infusion, a syrup, a tincture, and a wine of rhubarb, with a compound rhubarb pill, are used in pharmacy. In small doses rhubarb is stomachic and slightly astringent; in large doses, a purgative, but its action is followed by constipation. [GREGORY'S POWDER.] *B. As adj .: Bitter. "With your rhubarb words." Sidney: Astrophel and Stella , xiv. Monk's Rhubarb : [MONK'S RHUBARB.] rhu-bar-bar-ic, a. [Eng. rhubarbar (in); -ic.] Contained in or derived from Rhubarb a rin. rhubarbaric-acid, s . [CHRYSOPHANIC-ACID.] rhû-bar-bar-in, s. [Low Lat. rhubarbar (um); -in ( Chem .).] [CHRYSOPHANIC-ACID.] *rhu-bar-ba-tive, a . [Etym. doubtful. A correspondent of Notes & Queries (Sept. 18, 1886, p. 233) says that it is the Fr. rébarbatif stern, crabbed, cro . There is also, perhaps, a play on the English rhubarb.] (For def. seo etym.) "A man were better to lye under the hands of a Hangman than one of your rhubarbative faces." - Dekker: Match me in London , iii.