1. To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to
establish; — used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.
2. To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; — with up, out, or away. "I will go root away the
noisome weeds." Shak.
The Lord rooted them out of their land . . . and cast them into another land.
Deut. xxix. 28. Rootcap
(Root"cap`) n. (Bot.) A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing
cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.
Rooted
(Root"ed), a. Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart. "A rooted sorrow." Shak.
— Root"ed*ly, adv. — Root"ed*ness, n.
Rooter
(Rooter) n. One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
Rootery
(Root"er*y), n. A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object
in gardening.
Rootless
(Root"less), a. Destitute of roots.
Rootlet
(Root"let) n. A radicle; a little root.
Rootstock
(Root"stock`) n. (Bot.) A perennial underground stem, producing leafly sems or flower stems
from year to year; a rhizome.
Rooty
(Root"y) a. Full of roots; as, rooty ground.
Ropalic
(Ro*pal"ic) a. See Rhopalic.
Rope
(Rope) n. [AS. rap; akin to D. reep, G. reif ring hoop, Icel. reip rope, Sw. rep, Dan. reb,
reeb Goth. skaudaraip latchet.]
1. A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or
braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.
2. A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of
onions.
3. pl. The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
Rope ladder, a ladder made of ropes. — Rope mat., a mat made of cordage, or strands of old rope.
— Rope of sand, something of no cohession or fiber; a feeble union or tie; something not to be relied
upon. — Rope pump, a pump in which a rapidly running endless rope raises water by the momentum
communicated to the water by its adhesion to the rope. — Rope transmission (Mach.), a method of
transmitting power, as between distant places, by means of endless ropes running over grooved pulleys.
— Rope's end, a piece of rope; especially, one used as a lash in inflicting punishment. — To give
one rope, to give one liberty or license; to let one go at will uncheked.
Rope
(Rope) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Roping.] To be formed into rope; to draw
out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
Let us not hang like ropingicicles
Upon our houses' thatch.
Shak. Rope
(Rope), v. t.
