最新 人气 评论 赞 踩
Rock shaft
12   0   0   0
A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.
Rock staff
v. i.
12   0   0   0
An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.
Rocksucker
n.
13   0   0   0
A lamprey.
Rockweed
n.
13   0   0   0
Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus.
Rockwood
n.
13   0   0   0
Ligniform asbestus; also, fossil wood.
Rockwork
n.
15   0   0   0
Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
Rockwork
n.
11   0   0   0
A rockery.
Rocky
a.
14   0   0   0
Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.
Rocky
a.
12   0   0   0
Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield.
Rocky
a.
13   0   0   0
Fig.: Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.
Rocoa
n.
14   0   0   0
The orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto.
Rococo
n.
13   0   0   0
A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
Rococo
a.
13   0   0   0
Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.
Rod
n.
12   0   0   0
A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
Rod
n.
12   0   0   0
An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.
Rod
n.
12   0   0   0
A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
Rod
n.
13   0   0   0
A support for a fishing line; a fish pole.
Rod
n.
13   0   0   0
A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar.
Rod
n.
13   0   0   0
An instrument for measuring.
Rod
n.
15   0   0   0
A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
Roddy
a.
15   0   0   0
Full of rods or twigs.
Rode
n.
15   0   0   0
Redness; complexion.
Rode
16   0   0   0
imp. of Ride.
Rode
n.
13   0   0   0
See Rood, the cross.
Rodent
v. t.
13   0   0   0
Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
Rodent
v. t.
13   0   0   0
Gnawing.
Rodent
v. t.
12   0   0   0
Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.
Rodent
n.
12   0   0   0
One of the Rodentia.
Rodentia
a.
12   0   0   0
An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.
Rodeo
n.
12   0   0   0
A round-up. See Round-up.