Robe - ROBE, n.
1. A kind of gown or long loose garment worn over other dress, particularly by persons in elevated stations. The robe is properly a dress of state or dignity, as of princes, judges, priests, &c. See Exo 29:55. 1 Sam 24:4. Mat 27:28.
2. A splendid female gown or garment. 2 Sam 13.
3. An elegant dress; splendid attire.
4. In Scripture, the vesture of purity or righteousness, and of happiness. Job 29. Luke 15.
ROBE, v.t.
1. To put on a robe; or to dress with magnificence; to array.
2. To dress; to invest, as with beauty or elegance; as fields robed with green.
Such was his power over the expression of his countenance, that he could in an instant shake off the sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest smiles of spring.
Rock - ROCK, n. [Gr., L. rupes, from the root of rumpo, to break or burst. If this is not the origin of rock, I know not to what root to assign it.]
1. A large mass of stony matter, usually compounded of two or more simple minerals, either bedded in the earth or resting on its surface. Sometimes rocks compose the principal part of huge mountains; sometimes hugh rocks lie on the surface of the earth, in detached blocks or masses. Under this term, mineralogists class all mineral substances, coal, gypsum, salt, &c.
2. In Scripture, figuratively, defense; means of safety; protection; strength; asylum.
The Lord is my rock. 2 Sam 22.
3. Firmness; a firm or immovable foundation. Psa 28.
Mat 7. Mat 16.
4. A species of vulture or condor.
5. A fabulous bird in the Eastern tales.
ROCK, n.
A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
ROCK, v.t.
1. To move backward and forward, as a body resting on a foundation; as, to rock a cradle; to rock a chair; to rock a mountain. It differs from shake, as denoting a slower and more uniform motion, or larger movements. It differs from swing, which expresses a vibratory motion of something suspended.
A rising earthquake rock'd the ground.
2. To move backwards and forwards in a cradle, chair, &c.; as, to rock a child to sleep.
3. To lull to quiet.
Sleep rock thy brain. [Unusual.]
ROCK, v.i. To be moved backwards and forwards; to reel.
The rocking town supplants their footsteps.
Rod - ROD, n. [L. radius, ray, radix, root.]
1. The shoot or long twig of any woody plant; a branch, or the stem of a shrub; as a rod of hazle, of birch, of oak or hickory. Hence,
2. An instrument of punishment or correction; chastisement.
I will chasten him with the rod of men. 2 Sam 7. Prov 10.
3. Discipline; ecclesiastical censures. 1 Cor 4.
4. A king of scepter.
The rod and bird of peace.
5. A pole for angling; something long and slender.
6. An instrument for measuring; but more generally, a measure of length containing five yards, or sixteen feet and a half; a pole; a perch. In many parts of the United States, rod is universally used for pole or perch.
7. In Scripture, a staff or wand. 1 Sam 14.
8. Support.
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Psa 23.
9. A shepherd's crook. Lev 27.
10. An instrument for threshing. Isa 28.
11. Power; authority. Psa 125.
12. A tribe or race. Psa 74.
Rod of iron, the mighty power of Christ. Rev 19. Psa 2.
Root - ROOT, n. [L. radix. A root is a shoot, and only a different application of rod, L. radius.]
1. That part of a plant which enters and fixes itself in the earth, and serves to support the plant in an erect position, while by means of its fibrils it imbibes nutriment for the stem, branches and fruit.
2. The part of any thing that resembles the roots of a plant in manner of growth; as the roots of a cancer, of teeth, &c.
3. The bottom or lower part of any thing.
Deep to the roots of hell -
Burnet uses root of a mountain, but we now say base, foot or bottom. See Job 28:9.
4. A plant whose root is esculent or the most useful part; as beets, carrots, &c.
5. The original or cause of any thing.
The love of money is the root of all evil. 1 Tim 6.
6. The first ancestor.
They were the roots out of which sprung two distinct people -
7. In arithmetic and algebra, the root of any quantity is such a quantity as, when multiplied into itself a certain number of times, will exactly produce that quantity. Thus 2 is a root of 4, because when multiplied into itself, it exactly produces 4.
8. Means of growth. "He hath no root in himself;" that is, no soil in which grace can grow and flourish. Mat 13.
9. In music, the fundamental note of any chord.
Root of bitterness, in Scripture, any error, sin or evil that produces discord or immorality.
To take root, to become planted or fixed; or to be established; to increase and spread.
to take deep root, to be firmly planted or established; to be deeply impressed.
ROOT, v.i.
1. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots.
In deep grounds, the weeds root deeper.
2. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
The multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not take deep rooting.
3. To sink deep.
If any error chanced - to cause misapprehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment.
ROOT, v.t.
1. To plant and fix deep in the earth; used chiefly in the participle; as rooted trees or forests.
2. To plant deeply; to impress deeply and durably. Let the leading truths of the gospel be deeply rooted in the mind; let holy affections be well rooted in the heart.
3. In Scripture, to be rooted and grounded in Christ, is to be firmly united to him by faith and love, and well established in the belief of his character and doctrines. Eph 3.
ROOT, v.i. or t.
To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. Swine root to find worms; they root the ground wherever they come.
To root up or out, to eradicate; to extirpate; to remove or destroy root and branch; to exterminate. Deu 29. Job 31.
Ruinous - RU'INOUS, a. [l. ruinosus.]
1. Fallen to ruin; entirely decayed; demolished; dilapidated; as an edifice, bridge or wall in a ruinous state.
2. Destructive; baneful; pernicious; bringing or tending to bring certain ruin. Who can describe the ruinous practice of intemperance?
3. Composed of ruins; consisting in ruins; as a ruinous heap. Isa 17.