rod 
of driving-wheels, a rod connecting the crank-pins of all 
the driving-wheels on one side of the engine, so that when 
one is moved by the piston-rod all will be moved equally. 
Also called coupling-rod. Pedal rod. See pedal. Per- 
forating rods Of Sharpey. Same as Sharpey's fibers 
(which see, under fiber). Rod-and-cone layer of the 
retina. See retina. Rod license. See license. Rods 
Of Corti, the pillars of the arches of the organ of Corti. 
The external rods which form the outer pillar.- are shorter 
and less numerous than the inner rods. They consist of a 
cylindrical striated body with an expanded base ; the up- 
per extremity is curved, and has somewhat the shape of 
the head of a bird ; the back part fits into a cavity between 
the headsof two or more inner rods ; while the bill-like pro- 
cess projects toward the reticular membrane. The inner 
rods nave a striated body and an expanded base ; the heads 
have a concavity which receives the outer rods, and a pro- 
cess entering into the composition of the membrana reti- 
cularis. The arches thus formed support the outer and in 
ner hair-cells. Also called piilart of Corti. Setting-out 
rod, a guide or gage used in making window-f ramesTuoors. 
etc. Split rod, (a) One of the rods into which plates of 
wrought-iron are cut by means of slitting rollers, to be af- 
terward made into nails. (6) A fishing-rod made in sec- 
tions of split bamboo strips. To have a rod in pickle 
for one. See pickles. To kiss the rod. See kits. 
rod 1 (rod), v. t. ; pret. and pp. rodded, ppr. rod- 
ding. [< rod 1 , .] 1. To furnish with a rod or 
rods ; specifically, in recent use, to furnish or 
equip with lightning-rods. 
Several other houses in the town were rodded in the same 
way. Sei. Amer., N. S., LYIII. 358. 
2. To operate upon with a rod, in any way. 
In most of the systems the cable is inserted by a process 
technically called rodding that is, pushing rods through 
the duct from one manhole to the next. 
Elect. Rev. (Amer.), XVI. i. 14. 
rod 2 t, . A Middle English form of road 1 . 
rod 3 t. A Middle English form of rode 1 , preterit 
of ride. 
rod-bacterium (rod'bak-te*ri-um), H. A bacil- 
lus. 
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pair of upper and under front teeth ; exceptionally, as in 
the rabbit tribe, there are small supplementary upper 
incisors, crowded together and concealed behind the 
functional pair. In some groups, as A rmcoliiue, the molar 
teeth are perennial, like the incisors. There being no 
canines, and the premolars being few and small, if any, 
there is a great gap between the front anil the buck teeth, 
The typical number of teeth is 10, which obtains with few 
exceptions throughout the murinc series of rodents ; in 
one genus there are only 12. In the hystricine series there 
are normally 20 teeth, in one genus 16. In the sciurine 
series the teeth are always either 20 or 22 ; in the leporine 
aeries there are 26 or 28. This order is by far the largest 
one among mammals, and of world-wide distribution ; its 
numerous members are adapted to every kind of life. 
They are mostly of small size, a rabbit being far above 
the average ; the beaver, porcupine, or coypou is a very 
large rodent, and the capibara Is a giant. The order is 
divisible into 3 suborders : (1) HeMidtntata, enormal or 
blunt-toothed rodents, exceptional in having 4 lower in- 
cisors, and extinct; (2) Duplicidentata, subnormal or 
double-toothed rodenU, with 4 upper incisors : these are 
the hares, rabbits, and pikas; and (3) Simpliridentata, 
normal or simple-toothed rodents, with only 2 incisors 
above and below. The last fall in 3 series : (1) Hyxtri- 
comorpha, the hystricine series, including the porcupines 
and very numerous related forms, chiefly South American, 
as the capibara, coypou, cavies, viscachas, chinchillas, 
oclodonts, etc. (see cuts under capibara, coypou, rabbit- 
syuirrel, porcupine, and Plagiodon) ; (2) Myomorpha, the 
murine series, including rats and mice of all kinds 
(see cuts under mouse, Jfuridje, and rice-field); and (3) 
Sriummorpha, the sciurine series, or the squirrels, sper- 
mophUeg, marmots, beaver, etc. (see cuts under Arcto- 
tnyx, beaver, and prairie-dog). In addition, the duplici- 
dent rodents are (4) Lagamnrpha, the leporine series, the 
same as the suborder Duplicidfntata. (See cut under La- 
ffomys.) Many fossils of all these groups are known. There 
are 20 or 21 families of living rodents, and 100 genera. 
The order corresponds to the I.imii-an Glires, and is still 
often called by that name. Also called Jtosores. See cuts 
under cottar, Leporidx, and tcalprifyrm. 
rodential (ro-den'shal), a. Of or pertaining to 
the Bodentia. Nature, XLII. 193. [Rare.] 
rodeo (ro-da'6), n. [Sp. rodeo, a place for cattle 
at a market or fair, also a going round, a round- 
about road, < rodar, go round, < L. rotare, go 
round, wheel: see rotate.] A gathering of cat- 
tle to be branded or marked; a round-up. 
[California.] 
The ranch owner who gives the rodeo takes his own cat- 
tle ... and drives them in with the ones to be branded, 
leaving in the rodeo-ground the cattle bearing the brands 
of all other rancheros. 
K. D. Wiggin, A Summer in a Canon, p. 255. 
rodwood 
XL dayes to beholde on heven 
In jnce of rose a sester [sextarius] that weel smelle 
A pounde hony, and name it rodirmelle. 
Palladius, Husbomlrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 156. 
rodomont (rod'o-mont), n. and a. [< F. roiln- 
niniit, < It. rodomonte, a bully, < liodomoiite, 
the name of the brave but somewhat boastful 
leader of the Saracens against Charlemagne, in 
Ariosto's " Orlando Furioso," xiv., earlier (in 
rod-bayonet (rod'ba"o-net), M. See bayonet. 
rod-chisel (rod'chiz*'e'l), N. A smiths' chisel 
fixed to the end of a rod, used for cutting hot 
metal. E. H. Knight. 
rod-coupling (rod'kup'ling), . A coupling, 
clasp, or other device for uniting the rods which 
carry the tools used in boring artesian wells, 
oil-wells, etc. 
roddin (rod'in), n. A Scotch form of rowan. 
roddin-tree (rod'in-tre), . A Scotch form of ro< j fl-v f ro( j'fi 8 
rowan-tree. 
roddy (rod'i), . [< rodl + -i/ 1 .] Full of rods 
or twigs. [Rare.] 
rode 1 (rod). Preterit of ride. 
rode 2 t, . An obsolete form of road 1 . 
rode 3 t, n. A Middle English form of rood. 
rode 4 t, . A Middle English form of rwd 1 . 
rode 6 (rod), 11. [Origin obscure.] A rope at- 
tached to a boat-anchor or killock. Perley. 
[Bay of Fundy.] 
rod-end (rod'end), n. One of the ends of a con- 
i,,' 7 . At ' in i i ' ti ' , 
necting-rod of an engine. Rod-ends are variously r nrii(rnn 
fitted. A common method is to fit them each with a strap * ^*__ \ J 
and brasses, and a key for tightening the brasses when 
the latter wear loose. Sometimes called pitman-box. 
rodent (ro'dent), a. and . [< L. roden(t-)s, 
ppr. of rodere ( > It. rodere = Sp. Pg. roer = OF. 
roder, gnaw) ; akin to radere, scratch : see rase 1 , 
raze 1 . From the L. rodere are also ult. corrode, 
erode, rostrum, etc. Cf. Skt. rad, a tooth.] I. rod-granule (rod'gran'ul), w. One of the gran- 
a. Gnawing, as certain mammals ; habitually ules in the outer nuclear layer of the retina 
feeding upon vegetable substances, which are which are connected with the rods, 
gnawed or bitten -first with the front teeth; rod-holder (rod 'hoFder), n. One who holds or 
pertaining to the Bodentia, Bosores, or Glires, uses a fishing-rod. 
or having their characters; gliriform.-Rodent They thus decrease the rental of waters either from net 
dentition. See dentition, 3. or rod-holders. 
II. n. A member of the order Bodentia, Cassell, Technical Educator, xii. 356. (Encyc. Diet.) 
Bosores, or Glires; a rodent mammal; a gnawer, rod-iron (rod'i'ern), n. Rolled round iron for 
In temperate climates prolonged sleep is not unknown nails, fences, etc. 
Science, VI. 403. rod-knightt, n. One of a class of servitors who 
Rodentest (ro-den'tez), . pi. [NL.] Same as held their land by serving their lords on horse- 
Bodentia. back. Minsheu. 
Rodentia (ro-den'shi-a), . pi. [NL., < L. rodlet (rod'let), n. [< rod 1 + -let.] A bacil- 
rodentia (so. animalia), neut. pi. of roden(t-)s, lus or rod-bacterium. 
ppr. ot rodere, gnaw: see rodent.] An order Billroth and Klebs assert that micrococci may grow into 
ot meducabihan placental diphyodont Mam- rodfete or bacilli. Ziegler, Pathol. Anat. (trans. X i. 184. 
malia; the gnawers. The brain has arelatively small rod-line frod'linl A ftshins'-line not wound 
cerebrum, leaving much of the cerebellum and olfactorv i j i' ' 
lobes exposed, and the corpus caSrhasnoweU-deflneel on a reel: used *>? an g ler " distinction from 
rostrum in front. The placentation is discoidal-decidnate. reel-line. 
The limbs are ambulatorial, variously modified for run- rod-machine (rod'ma-sheu*'), n. In wood-icork- 
ttoMowt? jaw haftofoiSf Sslon'"^ di? co d d - yle [ ' n 9> a machine for cutting out cylindrical sticks, 
confined in a special socket, but glides back and forth, 8ucn as P ins > dowels, chair-rounds, and broom- 
so that the lower jaw can be put forward and backward handles. It has a cutter on the principle of a 
as well as moved up and down. The molar teeth are hollow auger, and operates on squared stuff, 
typically ridged on then- crowns in various patterns; rnritna-n fi-nil'mnul n n} rnrlmp onl A 
they are nearly always 3 in number above and below on rotunan (rod man;, . , pi. ronmen (-men). A 
each side. The premolars are small or few, often none. mal1 w se duty it 18 to carry the rod used in 
There are no canines. The incisors are large, strong^ surveying 
A fish that may be taken 
sh'er), n. One who fishes with 
rod-fishing (rod'fish'ing), . The art or prac- 
tice of fishing with a rod ; fly-fishing ; angling. 
rod-fructification (rod'fruk-ti-fi-ka"shon), n. 
In bot., a special simple gonidiophore in Basi- 
diomycetes, consisting of a short branch of the 
mycelium from which small gonidia-like rods 
are abscised fertile, however, only in the 
Tremelline. Goebel. 
[Formerly also radge ; origin ob- 
scure.] The gadwall, or gray duck, Chaulelas- 
mus streperus. See cut under Chaitlelasmus. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
The Radge is next unto the Teale in goodnesse : but yet 
there is great difference in the nourishment which they 
make. Venner, Via Recta ad Vitam Longam, p. 84. 
typical number of incisors is 2 above and below, or one 
rodomel, < Gr. 
honey: see rose 
ami /(//'-'.] The juice of roses mixed withhoney. 
Boiardo's "Orlando Innamorato") 
lit. ' one who rolls away mountains, ' < rodare 
(< L. rotare), wheel, roll, + moiite L. moiis), 
& mountain: see rotate and mount.] I. n. A 
vain boaster; a braggart; a bombastic fellow; 
a bully. 
He vapoured ; I but being pretty sharply admonished, 
he quickly became mild and calm, a posture ill-becoming 
such a rodomont. 
Sir T. Herbert, Memorials of King Charles I. (Todd.) 
II. a. Bragging ; vainly boasting. 
He had thought to have ben the leader 
Had the match gone on, 
And triumpht our whole nation 
In his rodomont fashion. 
B. Jonson, Masque of Owls. 
rodomontade (rod'o-mon-tad'), n. anda. [For- 
merly also rhodomontade, rodomontado ; = G. 
rodomontade, < OF. rodemontade, rodomontade, 
rotomontade, F. rodomontade, < It. rodomonttita, 
a boast, brag, < rodomonte, a boaster: see rod- 
omont.] I. n. Vain boasting; empty blusterer 
vaunting; rant. 
I could shew that the rhodomontadet of Almanzor are 
neither so irrational as his, nor so impossible to be put in 
execution. Dryden, Of Heroic Plays. 
Poor Phil used to bore me after dinner with endless 
rhodomontadet about his passion and his charmer. 
Thackeray, Philip, viii. 
II. a. Bragging. 
I don't know what 's the matter with the boy all this day ; 
he has got into such a rhodomontade manner all this morn 
ing. Goldsmith, Good-natured Man, ii. 
rodomontade (rod*o-mon-tad'), r. i. ; pret. and 
pp. rodomontaded, ppr. rodomontading. [< rodo- 
montade, .] To boast; brag; bluster; rant. 
Abuse which Pitt In his free-lance days heaped upon 
the " desperate rhodomontading minister." 
Edinburgh Ren., CXLV. 235. 
rodomontadistt (rod*o-mon-ta'dist), n. [< rodo- 
montade + -ist.~\ A blustering boaster ; one who 
brags or vaunts. 
When this Rhodamonladist had ended his perilous story, 
it was dinner time. 
E. Terry, Voyage to East India, p. 157. 
rodomontadot (rod'o-mon-ta'do), . and a. 
[See rodomontade.] I. n. 1. Rodomontade; 
also, a piece of rodomontade ; a brag. 
I have heard a Biscayner make a Rodomantado that he 
was as good a Gentleman as Don Philippo himself. 
Howell, Letters, I. iii. 32. 
"So." says he, " if a rAodomontado will do any good, why 
do you not say 100 ships?" Fepys, Diary, III. 350. 
2. A blusterer ; a braggart. 
Most terribly he comes off ; like your rodomontado. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. 
II. a. Bragging; blustering. 
A huge rodomontado Picture of the Duke of Lerma, 
wherein he is painted like a Giant, bearing up the Mon- 
archy of Spain, that of France, and the Popedom upon his 
Shoulders. HoweU, Letters, I. ill. 11. 
rodomontador (rod*o-mon-ta'dor), . [< rodo- 
montade + -or 1 .] Same as rodomontadist. 
rod-planer (rpd'pla*ner), n. A machine-too 1 . 
especially designed for planing the connecting- 
rods of locomotives, guide-bars, etc., and for 
similar work. E.H. Knight. 
Rodrigues's aneurism. A varicose aneurism 
iu which the sac is formed in the tissue immedi- 
ately contiguous to the artery. 
Rodrigues's coordinates. See coordinate. 
rod-ring (rod'ring), n. One of the small rings 
or guides through which the line passes along 
an angler's rod. The caliber is generally about 
six times that of the line. 
rods-goldt (rodz'gold), H. An old name of the 
marigold. Gerarde. 
rodsman (rodz'man), w.; pi. rodsmen (-men). 
Same as rodmtni. 
rodster (rod'ster), H. [< rod 1 + -ster.] One 
who uses a fishing-rod ; a rod-fisher; an angler. 
It is the intention of a number of our local rodsters to 
leave the city for different streams. 
Daily Telegraph, Sept. 2, 1882. (Encijc. DM.) 
rodwood (rod'wud), n. One of several West 
Indian shrubs or trees: Ltetia Thamma of the 
Itisinese, several species of Eugenia (as E. pal- 
lens, the black rodwood, and E. axillaris, the red 
rodwood), and Cali/ptrantlies Cliytractilia of the 
lfyrtace&, the white rodwood. 
