| slovo | definícia |
rood
(mass) | rood
- kríž, krucifix |
rood
(encz) | rood,krucifix n: Zdeněk Brož |
rood
(encz) | rood,kříž Zdeněk Brož |
Rood
(gcide) | Rood \Rood\ (r[=oo]d), n. [AS. r[=o]d a cross; akin to OS.
r[=o]da, D. roede rod, G. ruthe, rute, OHG. ruota. Cf. Rod
a measure.]
1. A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross
with Christ hanging on it.
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Note: Generally, the Trinity is represented, the Father as an
elderly man fully clothed, with a nimbus around his
head, and holding the cross on which the Son is
represented as crucified, the Holy Spirit descending in
the form of a dove near the Son's head. Figures of the
Virgin Mary and of St. John are often placed near the
principal figures.
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Savior, in thine image seen
Bleeding on that precious rood. --Wordsworth.
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2. A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a
perch; a pole. [Prov. Eng.]
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3. The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
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By the rood, by the cross; -- a phrase formerly used in
swearing. "No, by the rood, not so." --Shak.
Rood beam (Arch.), a beam across the chancel of a church,
supporting the rood.
Rood loft (Arch.), a loft or gallery, in a church, on which
the rood and its appendages were set up to view. --Gwilt.
Rood screen (Arch.), a screen, between the choir and the
body of the church, over which the rood was placed.
--Fairholt.
Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave
and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it
was called also rood steeple. --Weale.
Rood tree, the cross. [Obs.] "Died upon the rood tree."
--Gower.
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rood
(wn) | rood
n 1: representation of the cross on which Jesus died [syn:
crucifix, rood, rood-tree] |
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rood
(mass) | rood
- kríž, krucifix |
roodtree
(mass) | rood-tree
- krucifix, kríž |
brood
(encz) | brood,děti n: [žert.] Pinobrood,dumat Paulusbrood,hloubat v: o něčem Pinobrood,mláďata [zoo.] z jedné snůšky Pavel Machek; Pinobrood,nechat vylíhnout se mladé v líhni Pinobrood,potomstvo n: rodiny Pinobrood,přemýšlet v: hluboce o něčem Pinobrood,sedět na vejcích v: Pino |
brooder
(encz) | brooder,líheň Zdeněk Brož |
broodiness
(encz) | broodiness,zamyšlenost n: Zdeněk Brož |
brooding
(encz) | brooding,sezení na vejcích n: Jirka Daněkbrooding,skličující adj: Jaroslav Šedivýbrooding,tísnivý adj: Jaroslav Šedivý |
broody
(encz) | broody,zadumaný Jaroslav Šedivý |
rood
(encz) | rood,krucifix n: Zdeněk Brožrood,kříž Zdeněk Brož |
rood screen
(encz) | rood screen, n: |
rood-tree
(encz) | rood-tree, n: |
Abrood
(gcide) | Abrood \A*brood"\, adv. [Pref. a- + brood.]
In the act of brooding. [Obs.] --Abp. Sancroft.
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Achroodextrin
(gcide) | Achroodextrin \Ach`ro*["o]*dex"trin\, n. [Gr. ? colorless + E.
dextrin.] (Physiol. Chem.)
Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin.
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Brood
(gcide) | Brood \Brood\, a.
1. Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
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2. Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock;
having young; as, a brood sow.
[1913 Webster]Brood \Brood\ (br[=o]ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Brooded; p. pr.
& vb. n. Brooding.]
1. To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of
warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and
cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and
protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
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Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave.
--Milton.
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2. To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a
subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of
gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or
on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
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Brooding on unprofitable gold. --Dryden.
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Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt
like one who has evoked a spirit. --Hawthorne.
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When with downcast eyes we muse and brood.
--Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]Brood \Brood\ (br[=oo]d), n. [OE. brod, AS. br[=o]d; akin to D.
broed, OHG. bruot, G. brut, and also to G. br["u]he broth,
MHG. br["u]eje, and perh. to E. brawn, breath. Cf. Breed,
v. t.]
1. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood
of chickens.
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As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
--Luke xiii.
34.
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A hen followed by a brood of ducks. --Spectator.
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2. The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same
time or not; young children of the same mother, especially
if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman
with a brood of children.
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The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood.
--Wordsworth.
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3. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
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Flocks of the airy brood,
(Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). --Chapman.
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4. (Mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
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To sit on brood, to ponder. [Poetic] --Shak.
[1913 Webster]Brood \Brood\ (br[=oo]d), v. t.
1. To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her
chickens.
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2. To cherish with care. [R.]
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3. To think anxiously or moodily upon.
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You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne.
--Dryden.
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brood bud
(gcide) | Bulbil \Bulb"il\, n. [Dim. fr. bulb.]
1. (Bot.) A small or secondary bulb; hence, now almost
exclusively: An a["e]rial bulb or deciduous bud, produced
in the leaf axils, as in the tiger lily, or relpacing the
flowers, as in some onions, and capable, when separated,
of propagating the plant; -- called also bulblet and
brood bud.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. (Anat.) A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a
small vessel or tube.
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Brooded
(gcide) | Brood \Brood\ (br[=o]ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Brooded; p. pr.
& vb. n. Brooding.]
1. To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of
warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and
cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and
protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
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Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave.
--Milton.
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2. To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a
subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of
gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or
on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
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Brooding on unprofitable gold. --Dryden.
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Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt
like one who has evoked a spirit. --Hawthorne.
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When with downcast eyes we muse and brood.
--Tennyson.
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brooder
(gcide) | brooder \brood"er\ n.
a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use
of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants.
Syn: incubator.
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Brooding
(gcide) | Brood \Brood\ (br[=o]ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Brooded; p. pr.
& vb. n. Brooding.]
1. To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of
warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and
cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and
protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
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Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave.
--Milton.
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2. To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a
subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of
gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or
on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
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Brooding on unprofitable gold. --Dryden.
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Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt
like one who has evoked a spirit. --Hawthorne.
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When with downcast eyes we muse and brood.
--Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]brooding \brood"ing\, a.
1. worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about
a particular problem.
Syn: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive,
pondering, reflective, ruminative, gloomy, morose.
[WordNet 1.5]brooding \brood"ing\, a.
good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that
purpose; as, a brooding hen.
Syn: brood, hatching.
[WordNet 1.5]brooding \brooding\ n.
the process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the
warmth of the body; -- mostly used of birds.
Syn: incubation.
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brooding
(gcide) | Brood \Brood\ (br[=o]ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Brooded; p. pr.
& vb. n. Brooding.]
1. To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of
warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and
cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and
protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
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Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave.
--Milton.
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2. To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a
subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of
gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or
on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
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Brooding on unprofitable gold. --Dryden.
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Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt
like one who has evoked a spirit. --Hawthorne.
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When with downcast eyes we muse and brood.
--Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]brooding \brood"ing\, a.
1. worried and thinking long and intensely, especially about
a particular problem.
Syn: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive,
pondering, reflective, ruminative, gloomy, morose.
[WordNet 1.5]brooding \brood"ing\, a.
good at incubating eggs, especially of a fowl kept for that
purpose; as, a brooding hen.
Syn: brood, hatching.
[WordNet 1.5]brooding \brooding\ n.
the process of sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the
warmth of the body; -- mostly used of birds.
Syn: incubation.
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broodmare
(gcide) | broodmare \broodmare\ n.
a female horse used for breeding.
Syn: stud mare.
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Broody
(gcide) | Broody \Brood"y\, a.
Inclined to brood. --Ray.
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By the rood
(gcide) | Rood \Rood\ (r[=oo]d), n. [AS. r[=o]d a cross; akin to OS.
r[=o]da, D. roede rod, G. ruthe, rute, OHG. ruota. Cf. Rod
a measure.]
1. A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross
with Christ hanging on it.
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Note: Generally, the Trinity is represented, the Father as an
elderly man fully clothed, with a nimbus around his
head, and holding the cross on which the Son is
represented as crucified, the Holy Spirit descending in
the form of a dove near the Son's head. Figures of the
Virgin Mary and of St. John are often placed near the
principal figures.
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Savior, in thine image seen
Bleeding on that precious rood. --Wordsworth.
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2. A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a
perch; a pole. [Prov. Eng.]
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3. The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
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By the rood, by the cross; -- a phrase formerly used in
swearing. "No, by the rood, not so." --Shak.
Rood beam (Arch.), a beam across the chancel of a church,
supporting the rood.
Rood loft (Arch.), a loft or gallery, in a church, on which
the rood and its appendages were set up to view. --Gwilt.
Rood screen (Arch.), a screen, between the choir and the
body of the church, over which the rood was placed.
--Fairholt.
Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave
and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it
was called also rood steeple. --Weale.
Rood tree, the cross. [Obs.] "Died upon the rood tree."
--Gower.
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croodle
(gcide) | croodle \croo"dle\ (kr[=oo]"d'l), v. i. [Cf. Cruddle,
Crudle.]
1. To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie
close and snug together, as pigs in straw. [Prov. Eng.]
--Wright. --Forby.
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A dove to fly home to her nest and croodle there.
--C. Kingsley.
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2. To fawn or coax. [Obs.]
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3. To coo. [Scot.]
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Holy rood
(gcide) | Holy \Ho"ly\, a. [Compar. Holier; superl. Holiest.] [OE.
holi, hali, AS. h[=a]lig, fr. h[ae]l health, salvation,
happiness, fr. h[=a]l whole, well; akin to OS. h?lag, D. & G.
heilig, OHG. heilac, Dan. hellig, Sw. helig, Icel. heilagr.
See Whole, and cf. Halibut, Halidom, Hallow,
Hollyhock.]
1. Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed;
sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels;
a holy priesthood. "Holy rites and solemn feasts."
--Milton.
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2. Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and
virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly;
pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.
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Now through her round of holy thought
The Church our annual steps has brought. --Keble.
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Holy Alliance (Hist.), a league ostensibly for conserving
religion, justice, and peace in Europe, but really for
repressing popular tendencies toward constitutional
government, entered into by Alexander I. of Russia,
Francis I. of Austria, and Frederic William III. of
Prussia, at Paris, on the 26th of September, 1815, and
subsequently joined by all the sovereigns of Europe,
except the pope and the king of England.
Holy bark. See Cascara sagrada.
Holy Communion. See Eucharist.
Holy family (Art), a picture in which the infant Christ,
his parents, and others of his family are represented.
Holy Father, a title of the pope.
Holy Ghost (Theol.), the third person of the Trinity; the
Comforter; the Paraclete.
Holy Grail. See Grail.
Holy grass (Bot.), a sweet-scented grass ({Hierochloa
borealis} and Hierochloa alpina). In the north of Europe
it was formerly strewed before church doors on saints'
days; whence the name. It is common in the northern and
western parts of the United States. Called also {vanilla
grass} or Seneca grass.
Holy Innocents' day, Childermas day.
Holy Land, Palestine, the birthplace of Christianity.
Holy office, the Inquisition.
Holy of holies (Script.), the innermost apartment of the
Jewish tabernacle or temple, where the ark was kept, and
where no person entered, except the high priest once a
year.
Holy One.
(a) The Supreme Being; -- so called by way of emphasis. "
The Holy One of Israel." --Is. xliii. 14.
(b) One separated to the service of God.
Holy orders. See Order.
Holy rood, the cross or crucifix, particularly one placed,
in churches. over the entrance to the chancel.
Holy rope, a plant, the hemp agrimony.
Holy Saturday (Eccl.), the Saturday immediately preceding
the festival of Easter; the vigil of Easter.
Holy Spirit, same as Holy Ghost (above).
Holy Spirit plant. See Dove plant.
Holy thistle (Bot.), the blessed thistle. See under
Thistle.
Holy Thursday. (Eccl.)
(a) (Episcopal Ch.) Ascension day.
(b) (R. C. Ch.) The Thursday in Holy Week; Maundy
Thursday.
Holy war, a crusade; an expedition carried on by Christians
against the Saracens in the Holy Land, in the eleventh,
twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, for the possession of
the holy places.
Holy water (Gr. & R. C. Churches), water which has been
blessed by the priest for sacred purposes.
Holy-water stoup, the stone stoup or font placed near the
entrance of a church, as a receptacle for holy water.
Holy Week (Eccl.), the week before Easter, in which the
passion of our Savior is commemorated.
Holy writ, the sacred Scriptures. " Word of holy writ."
--Wordsworth.
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Hyperoodon
(gcide) | Hyperoodon \Hyperoodon\ prop. n. (Zool.)
The mammalian genus comprised of the bottle-nosed whales.
Syn: genus Hyperoodon.
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Hyperoodon bidens
(gcide) | Sperm whale \Sperm" whale`\ (Zool.)
A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having
a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth.
In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a
large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This
whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet.
It is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. Called
also cachalot, and spermaceti whale.
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Pygmy sperm whale (Zool.), a small whale ({Kogia
breviceps}), seldom twenty feet long, native of tropical
seas, but occasionally found on the American coast. Called
also snub-nosed cachalot.
Sperm-whale porpoise (Zool.), a toothed cetacean
(Hyperoodon bidens), found on both sides of the Atlantic
and valued for its oil. The adult becomes about
twenty-five feet long, and its head is very large and
thick. Called also bottle-nosed whale.
[1913 Webster]Bottlehead \Bot"tle*head`\, n. (Zool.)
A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also
bottle-nosed whale.
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Note: There are several species so named, as the pilot
whales, of the genus Globicephalus, and one or more
species of Hypero["o]don (Hypero["o]don bidens,
etc.), found on the European coast. See Blackfish, 1.
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Rood beam
(gcide) | Rood \Rood\ (r[=oo]d), n. [AS. r[=o]d a cross; akin to OS.
r[=o]da, D. roede rod, G. ruthe, rute, OHG. ruota. Cf. Rod
a measure.]
1. A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross
with Christ hanging on it.
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Note: Generally, the Trinity is represented, the Father as an
elderly man fully clothed, with a nimbus around his
head, and holding the cross on which the Son is
represented as crucified, the Holy Spirit descending in
the form of a dove near the Son's head. Figures of the
Virgin Mary and of St. John are often placed near the
principal figures.
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Savior, in thine image seen
Bleeding on that precious rood. --Wordsworth.
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2. A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a
perch; a pole. [Prov. Eng.]
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3. The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
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By the rood, by the cross; -- a phrase formerly used in
swearing. "No, by the rood, not so." --Shak.
Rood beam (Arch.), a beam across the chancel of a church,
supporting the rood.
Rood loft (Arch.), a loft or gallery, in a church, on which
the rood and its appendages were set up to view. --Gwilt.
Rood screen (Arch.), a screen, between the choir and the
body of the church, over which the rood was placed.
--Fairholt.
Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave
and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it
was called also rood steeple. --Weale.
Rood tree, the cross. [Obs.] "Died upon the rood tree."
--Gower.
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Rood loft
(gcide) | Rood \Rood\ (r[=oo]d), n. [AS. r[=o]d a cross; akin to OS.
r[=o]da, D. roede rod, G. ruthe, rute, OHG. ruota. Cf. Rod
a measure.]
1. A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross
with Christ hanging on it.
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Note: Generally, the Trinity is represented, the Father as an
elderly man fully clothed, with a nimbus around his
head, and holding the cross on which the Son is
represented as crucified, the Holy Spirit descending in
the form of a dove near the Son's head. Figures of the
Virgin Mary and of St. John are often placed near the
principal figures.
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Savior, in thine image seen
Bleeding on that precious rood. --Wordsworth.
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2. A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a
perch; a pole. [Prov. Eng.]
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3. The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
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By the rood, by the cross; -- a phrase formerly used in
swearing. "No, by the rood, not so." --Shak.
Rood beam (Arch.), a beam across the chancel of a church,
supporting the rood.
Rood loft (Arch.), a loft or gallery, in a church, on which
the rood and its appendages were set up to view. --Gwilt.
Rood screen (Arch.), a screen, between the choir and the
body of the church, over which the rood was placed.
--Fairholt.
Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave
and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it
was called also rood steeple. --Weale.
Rood tree, the cross. [Obs.] "Died upon the rood tree."
--Gower.
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Rood screen
(gcide) | Rood \Rood\ (r[=oo]d), n. [AS. r[=o]d a cross; akin to OS.
r[=o]da, D. roede rod, G. ruthe, rute, OHG. ruota. Cf. Rod
a measure.]
1. A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross
with Christ hanging on it.
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Note: Generally, the Trinity is represented, the Father as an
elderly man fully clothed, with a nimbus around his
head, and holding the cross on which the Son is
represented as crucified, the Holy Spirit descending in
the form of a dove near the Son's head. Figures of the
Virgin Mary and of St. John are often placed near the
principal figures.
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Savior, in thine image seen
Bleeding on that precious rood. --Wordsworth.
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2. A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a
perch; a pole. [Prov. Eng.]
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3. The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
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By the rood, by the cross; -- a phrase formerly used in
swearing. "No, by the rood, not so." --Shak.
Rood beam (Arch.), a beam across the chancel of a church,
supporting the rood.
Rood loft (Arch.), a loft or gallery, in a church, on which
the rood and its appendages were set up to view. --Gwilt.
Rood screen (Arch.), a screen, between the choir and the
body of the church, over which the rood was placed.
--Fairholt.
Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave
and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it
was called also rood steeple. --Weale.
Rood tree, the cross. [Obs.] "Died upon the rood tree."
--Gower.
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rood steeple
(gcide) | Rood \Rood\ (r[=oo]d), n. [AS. r[=o]d a cross; akin to OS.
r[=o]da, D. roede rod, G. ruthe, rute, OHG. ruota. Cf. Rod
a measure.]
1. A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross
with Christ hanging on it.
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Note: Generally, the Trinity is represented, the Father as an
elderly man fully clothed, with a nimbus around his
head, and holding the cross on which the Son is
represented as crucified, the Holy Spirit descending in
the form of a dove near the Son's head. Figures of the
Virgin Mary and of St. John are often placed near the
principal figures.
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Savior, in thine image seen
Bleeding on that precious rood. --Wordsworth.
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2. A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a
perch; a pole. [Prov. Eng.]
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3. The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
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By the rood, by the cross; -- a phrase formerly used in
swearing. "No, by the rood, not so." --Shak.
Rood beam (Arch.), a beam across the chancel of a church,
supporting the rood.
Rood loft (Arch.), a loft or gallery, in a church, on which
the rood and its appendages were set up to view. --Gwilt.
Rood screen (Arch.), a screen, between the choir and the
body of the church, over which the rood was placed.
--Fairholt.
Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave
and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it
was called also rood steeple. --Weale.
Rood tree, the cross. [Obs.] "Died upon the rood tree."
--Gower.
[1913 Webster]Steeple \Stee"ple\ (st[=e]"p'l), n. [OE. stepel, AS. st[=e]pel,
st[=y]pel; akin to E. steep, a.] (Arch.)
A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole
of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A
weathercock on a steeple." --Shak.
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Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood.
Steeple bush (Bot.), a low shrub (Spiraea tomentosa)
having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers;
hardhack.
Steeple chase, a race across country between a number of
horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant
object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a
prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one
meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc.
Steeple chaser, one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a
horse trained to run in a steeple chase.
Steeple engine, a vertical back-acting steam engine having
the cylinder beneath the crosshead.
Steeple house, a church. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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Rood steeple
(gcide) | Rood \Rood\ (r[=oo]d), n. [AS. r[=o]d a cross; akin to OS.
r[=o]da, D. roede rod, G. ruthe, rute, OHG. ruota. Cf. Rod
a measure.]
1. A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross
with Christ hanging on it.
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Note: Generally, the Trinity is represented, the Father as an
elderly man fully clothed, with a nimbus around his
head, and holding the cross on which the Son is
represented as crucified, the Holy Spirit descending in
the form of a dove near the Son's head. Figures of the
Virgin Mary and of St. John are often placed near the
principal figures.
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Savior, in thine image seen
Bleeding on that precious rood. --Wordsworth.
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2. A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a
perch; a pole. [Prov. Eng.]
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3. The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
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By the rood, by the cross; -- a phrase formerly used in
swearing. "No, by the rood, not so." --Shak.
Rood beam (Arch.), a beam across the chancel of a church,
supporting the rood.
Rood loft (Arch.), a loft or gallery, in a church, on which
the rood and its appendages were set up to view. --Gwilt.
Rood screen (Arch.), a screen, between the choir and the
body of the church, over which the rood was placed.
--Fairholt.
Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave
and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it
was called also rood steeple. --Weale.
Rood tree, the cross. [Obs.] "Died upon the rood tree."
--Gower.
[1913 Webster]Steeple \Stee"ple\ (st[=e]"p'l), n. [OE. stepel, AS. st[=e]pel,
st[=y]pel; akin to E. steep, a.] (Arch.)
A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole
of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A
weathercock on a steeple." --Shak.
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Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood.
Steeple bush (Bot.), a low shrub (Spiraea tomentosa)
having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers;
hardhack.
Steeple chase, a race across country between a number of
horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant
object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a
prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one
meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc.
Steeple chaser, one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a
horse trained to run in a steeple chase.
Steeple engine, a vertical back-acting steam engine having
the cylinder beneath the crosshead.
Steeple house, a church. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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Rood tower
(gcide) | Rood \Rood\ (r[=oo]d), n. [AS. r[=o]d a cross; akin to OS.
r[=o]da, D. roede rod, G. ruthe, rute, OHG. ruota. Cf. Rod
a measure.]
1. A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross
with Christ hanging on it.
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Note: Generally, the Trinity is represented, the Father as an
elderly man fully clothed, with a nimbus around his
head, and holding the cross on which the Son is
represented as crucified, the Holy Spirit descending in
the form of a dove near the Son's head. Figures of the
Virgin Mary and of St. John are often placed near the
principal figures.
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Savior, in thine image seen
Bleeding on that precious rood. --Wordsworth.
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2. A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a
perch; a pole. [Prov. Eng.]
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3. The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
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By the rood, by the cross; -- a phrase formerly used in
swearing. "No, by the rood, not so." --Shak.
Rood beam (Arch.), a beam across the chancel of a church,
supporting the rood.
Rood loft (Arch.), a loft or gallery, in a church, on which
the rood and its appendages were set up to view. --Gwilt.
Rood screen (Arch.), a screen, between the choir and the
body of the church, over which the rood was placed.
--Fairholt.
Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave
and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it
was called also rood steeple. --Weale.
Rood tree, the cross. [Obs.] "Died upon the rood tree."
--Gower.
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Rood tree
(gcide) | Rood \Rood\ (r[=oo]d), n. [AS. r[=o]d a cross; akin to OS.
r[=o]da, D. roede rod, G. ruthe, rute, OHG. ruota. Cf. Rod
a measure.]
1. A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross
with Christ hanging on it.
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Note: Generally, the Trinity is represented, the Father as an
elderly man fully clothed, with a nimbus around his
head, and holding the cross on which the Son is
represented as crucified, the Holy Spirit descending in
the form of a dove near the Son's head. Figures of the
Virgin Mary and of St. John are often placed near the
principal figures.
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Savior, in thine image seen
Bleeding on that precious rood. --Wordsworth.
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2. A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a
perch; a pole. [Prov. Eng.]
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3. The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
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By the rood, by the cross; -- a phrase formerly used in
swearing. "No, by the rood, not so." --Shak.
Rood beam (Arch.), a beam across the chancel of a church,
supporting the rood.
Rood loft (Arch.), a loft or gallery, in a church, on which
the rood and its appendages were set up to view. --Gwilt.
Rood screen (Arch.), a screen, between the choir and the
body of the church, over which the rood was placed.
--Fairholt.
Rood tower (Arch.), a tower at the intersection of the nave
and transept of a church; -- when crowned with a spire it
was called also rood steeple. --Weale.
Rood tree, the cross. [Obs.] "Died upon the rood tree."
--Gower.
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roodebok
(gcide) | pallah \pal"lah\ (p[a^]l"l[.a]), n. (Zool.)
A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The
male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color
is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also
roodebok.
[1913 Webster]Roodebok \Roo"de*bok\, n. [D. rood red + bok buck.] (Zool.)
The pallah.
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Roodebok
(gcide) | pallah \pal"lah\ (p[a^]l"l[.a]), n. (Zool.)
A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The
male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color
is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also
roodebok.
[1913 Webster]Roodebok \Roo"de*bok\, n. [D. rood red + bok buck.] (Zool.)
The pallah.
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Roody
(gcide) | Roody \Rood"y\, a.
Rank in growth. [Prov. Eng.]
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Shrood
(gcide) | Shrood \Shrood\, v. t. [Cf. Shroud.] [Written also shroud,
and shrowd.]
To trim; to lop. [Prov. Eng.]
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To sit on brood
(gcide) | Brood \Brood\ (br[=oo]d), n. [OE. brod, AS. br[=o]d; akin to D.
broed, OHG. bruot, G. brut, and also to G. br["u]he broth,
MHG. br["u]eje, and perh. to E. brawn, breath. Cf. Breed,
v. t.]
1. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood
of chickens.
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As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
--Luke xiii.
34.
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A hen followed by a brood of ducks. --Spectator.
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2. The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same
time or not; young children of the same mother, especially
if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman
with a brood of children.
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The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood.
--Wordsworth.
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3. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
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Flocks of the airy brood,
(Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). --Chapman.
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4. (Mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
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To sit on brood, to ponder. [Poetic] --Shak.
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brood
(wn) | brood
n 1: the young of an animal cared for at one time
v 1: think moodily or anxiously about something [syn: brood,
dwell]
2: hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing;
"The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" [syn:
brood, hover, loom, bulk large]
3: be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting
because she didn't get what she wanted" [syn: sulk, pout,
brood]
4: be in a huff; be silent or sullen [syn: grizzle, brood,
stew]
5: sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
[syn: brood, hatch, cover, incubate] |
brood bitch
(wn) | brood bitch
n 1: a bitch used for breeding |
brood hen
(wn) | brood hen
n 1: a domestic hen ready to brood [syn: brood hen, broody,
broody hen, setting hen, sitter] |
brooder
(wn) | brooder
n 1: apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a
constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for
chicks or premature infants [syn: incubator, brooder] |
brooder pneumonia
(wn) | brooder pneumonia
n 1: severe respiratory disease of birds that takes the form of
an acute rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and
turkeys [syn: aspergillosis, brooder pneumonia] |
brooding
(wn) | brooding
adj 1: deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only
in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic
hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";
[syn: brooding, broody, contemplative,
meditative, musing, pensive, pondering,
reflective, ruminative]
n 1: sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the
body [syn: brooding, incubation]
2: persistent morbid meditation on a problem [syn:
pensiveness, brooding] |
broodmare
(wn) | broodmare
n 1: a female horse used for breeding [syn: broodmare, {stud
mare}] |
broody
(wn) | broody
adj 1: physiologically ready to incubate eggs; "a broody hen"
2: deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in
his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' -
the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"; [syn:
brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative,
musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative]
n 1: a domestic hen ready to brood [syn: brood hen, broody,
broody hen, setting hen, sitter] |
broody hen
(wn) | broody hen
n 1: a domestic hen ready to brood [syn: brood hen, broody,
broody hen, setting hen, sitter] |
genus hyperoodon
(wn) | genus Hyperoodon
n 1: bottle-nosed whales [syn: Hyperoodon, genus Hyperoodon] |
hyperoodon
(wn) | Hyperoodon
n 1: bottle-nosed whales [syn: Hyperoodon, genus Hyperoodon] |
hyperoodon ampullatus
(wn) | Hyperoodon ampullatus
n 1: northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead
[syn: bottle-nosed whale, bottlenose whale,
bottlenose, Hyperoodon ampullatus] |
rood
(wn) | rood
n 1: representation of the cross on which Jesus died [syn:
crucifix, rood, rood-tree] |
rood screen
(wn) | rood screen
n 1: a screen in a church; separates the nave from the choir or
chancel |
rood-tree
(wn) | rood-tree
n 1: representation of the cross on which Jesus died [syn:
crucifix, rood, rood-tree] |
ROOD OF LAN
(bouvier) | ROOD OF LAND. The fourth part of an acre.
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