Index of English words, starting with "ro"

(1) - Roundworm (n.) A nematoid worm.

(1) - Roup (n.) A disease in poultry. See Pip.
(2) - Roup (n.) An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction.
(3) - Roup (v. i. & t.) To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction.

(1) - Rouse (v. i.) To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
(2) - Rouse (v. i.) To awake from sleep or repose.
(3) - Rouse (v. i.) To get or start up; to rise.
(4) - Rouse (v.) To raise; to make erect.
(5) - Rouse (v.) To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
(6) - Rouse (v.) To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.
(7) - Rouse (v.) To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
(8) - Rouse (v.) To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
(9) - Rouse (n.) A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
(10) - Rouse (n.) A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
(11) - Rouse (v. i. & t.) To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.

(1) - Rouser (n.) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
(2) - Rouser (n.) Something very exciting or great.
(3) - Rouser (n.) One who, or that which, rouses.

(1) - Rousing (a.) Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie.
(2) - Rousing (a.) Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.
(3) - Rousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rouse