Emily Dickinson Lexicon

ROOT'ED, pp.

Having its roots planted or fixed in the Earth; hence, fixed; deep; radical; as, rooted sorrow; rooted aversion; rooted prejudices.

ROOT'ED-LY, adv.

Deeply; from the heart. – Shak.

ROOT'ER, n.

One that roots; or one that tears up by the roots.

ROOT'-HOUSE, n.

1. A house made of roots. – Dodsley.
2. A house for keeping roots.

ROOT'ING, ppr.

Striking or taking root; turning up with the snout.

ROOT'-LEAF, n.

A leaf growing immediately from the root. – Martyn.

ROOT'LET, n.

A radicle; a little root. – Martyn.

ROOT'-STOCK, n.

In botany, a prostrate rooting stock yearly producing young branches.

ROOT'Y, a.

Full of roots; as, rooty ground. – Adams.

RO-PAL'IC, a. [Gr. ῥοπαλον, a club.]

Club-formed; increasing or swelling toward the end.

ROPE, n. [Sax. rap; Sw. rep; Dan. reeb; W. rhaf; Ir. ropa, roibin.]

1. A large string or line composed of several strands twisted together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size; being the name given to all sorts of cordage above an inch in circumference. Indeed the smaller ropes, when used for certain purposes, are called lines. Ropes are, by seamen, ranked under two descriptions, cable-laid, and hawser-laid; the former composed of nine strands, or three great strands, each consisting of three small ones; the latter made with three strands, each composed of a certain number of rope-yarns. – Mar. Dict.
2. A row or string consisting of a number of things united; as, a rope of onions.
3. Ropes, [Sax. roppas,] the intestines of birds. – Lye. Rope of sand, proverbially, feeble union or tie; a band easily broken. – Locke.

ROPE, v.i.

To draw out or extend into a filament or thread, by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality. Any glutinous substance will rope considerably before it will part.

ROPE-BAND, n. [See ROBBINS.]

ROPE-DAN-CER, n. [rope and dancer.]

One that walks on a rope extended. – Addison.

ROPE-LAD-DER, n.

A ladder made of ropes.

ROPE-MAK-ER, n.

One whose occupation is to make ropes or cordage. [I do not know that roper is ever used.]

ROPE-MAK-ING, n.

The art or business of manufacturing ropes or cordage.

ROP-ER-Y, n.

1. A place where ropes are made. [Not used in the United States.]
2. A trick that deserves the halter. – Shak.

ROPE-TRICK, n.

A trick that deserves the halter. – Shak.

ROPE-WALK, n.

A long covered walk, or a long building over smooth ground, where ropes are manufactured.

ROPE-YARN, n.

Yarn for ropes, consisting of a single thread. The threads are twisted into strands, and the strands into ropes.

ROP-I-NESS, n. [from ropy.]

Stringiness, or aptness to draw out in a string or thread without breaking, as of glutinous substances; viscosity; adhesiveness.

ROP-Y, a. [from rope.]

Stringy; adhesive; that may be drawn into a thread; as a glutinous substance; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as, ropy wine; rope lees. – Dryden. Philips.

ROQ'UE-LAUR, n. [from Fr; Dan. rokkelor; G. rock, a coat, D. rok, Sax. rocc, whence frock, Sp. roclo. Qu. the last syllable, or is the word derived from a duke of this name?]

A cloke for men. Gay.

RO'RAL, a. [L. roralis, from ros, dew.]

Pertaining to dew or consisting of dew; dewy. – Green.