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ROCK'ED, pp. [from rock, the verb.] Moved one way and the other.
ROCK'-SALT, n. Fossil or mineral salt; salt dug from the earth; muriate of soda....
ROCK-RUBY, n. A name sometimes given to the garnet, when it is of a strong, but ...
ROCK'-ROSE, n. A plant of the genus Cistus.
ROCK-CRYS'TAL, n. The most perfect variety of silicious earth or quartz; limpid ...
ROCK-BUTTER, n. A subsulphite of alumin, oozing from aluminous rocks.
ROCK'-ALUM, n. The purest kind of alum. [See Roche-alum. ROCK'-BASON , n. A cavi...
ROCK, n. [Gr., L. rupes, from the root of rumpo, to break or burst. If this is n...
ROCH'ET, n. A surplice; the white upper garment of a priest worn while officiati...
ROC'AMBOLE, ROCHE-ALUM, n. Rock-alum, a purer kind of alum. Rochelle salt, tartr...
ROBUST'NESS, n. Strength; vigor, or the condition of the body when it has full f...
ROBUST', a. [L. robustus, from robur, strength.] 1. Strong; lusty; sinewy; muscu...
ROBO'REOUS, a. [L. roborcus, from robur, strength, and an oak.] Made of oak.
ROBORA'TION, n. [from L. roboro, from robur, strength.] A strengthening. [Little...
ROB'ORANT, a. [L. roborans, roboro.] Strengthening. ROB'ORANT , n. A medicine th...
ROBIN-GOODFELLOW, n. An old domestic goblin.