Vocabulary : Rouleaus to Round

Rouleaus : of Rouleau
Rouleaux : of Rouleau
Roulette : A small toothed wheel used to make short incisions in paper, as a sheet of postage stamps to facilitate their separation. ;; To make short incisions in with a roulette; to separate by incisions made with a roulette; as, to roulette a sheet of postage stamps. ;; A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game. ;; A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots. ;; A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint. ;; the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid.
Rouly-pouly : See Rolly-pooly.
Roumanian : Of or pertaining to Roumania. ;; An inhabitant of Roumania; also, the language of Roumania, one of the Romance or Romanic languages descended from Latin, but containing many words from other languages, as Slavic, Turkish, and Greek.
Roun : Alt. of Rown
Rounce : The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again; -- sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.
Rounceval : Large; strong; -- from the gigantic bones shown at Roncesvalles, and alleged to be those of old heroes. ;; A giant; anything large; a kind of pea called also marrowfat.
Rouncy : A common hackney horse; a nag.
Round : To whisper. ;; Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center; spherical; circular; having a form approaching a spherical or a circular shape; orbicular; globular; as, a round ball. ;; Having the form of a cylinder; cylindrical; as, the barrel of a musket is round. ;; Having a curved outline or form; especially, one like the arc of a circle or an ellipse, or a portion of the surface of a sphere; rotund; bulging; protuberant; not angular or pointed; as, a round arch; round hills. ;; Full; complete; not broken; not fractional; approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.; -- said of numbers. ;; Not inconsiderable; large; hence, generous; free; as, a round price. ;; Uttered or emitted with a full tone; as, a round voice; a round note. ;; Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, making the opening more or less round in shape; rounded; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11. ;; Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; unqual
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