Rollulus 
roll-up (rol'up), n. 1. Same as roly-poly, 2. 
I know what the pudden'B to be apricot nU-vp O 
my buttons ! Oeorae Eliot, Mill on the Floss, i. 6. 
2. A clogging of machinery in cotton-carding 
or the like. F. Wilson, Cotton Carder's Com- 
panion, p. 90. 
rollway (rol'wa), . 1. A natural incline (as 
the bank of a stream), or an inclined structure, 
down which heavy bodies, especially logs, are 
propelled by their own weight ; a shoot. 
This appliance for swinging logs from stump to rollway, 
car, or boat is to be the chief means for placing this 
North Carolina cypress where it will do the most good. 
Set. Amer., N. 8., LVIII. 152. 
2. In lumbering, a mass of logs piled up for 
rolling down to or into a stream, or placed 
upon the ice to await spring freshets. 
The logs are drawn to the nearest river, where they are 
piled in great roU-ways, cither on the ice or on a high 
hank, there to remain until the spring floods launch them. 
Scribner'i Mag., IV. 655. 
roloway (rol'o-wa), n. [Origin obscure.] The 
Diana monkey, Cercopitliccus diana. See cut 
under Diana. ' 
roly-poly (ro'li-po"li), n. and a. [Also spell- 
ed roirly-poirly, rollcy-polley, rolly-jwly, etc.; a 
riming compound, with dim. effect, appar. < 
roll + bowl* (the game having formerly been 
called half-bowl).'] I. . If. An old game, some- 
what resembling bowls, played with pins and a 
half-sphere of wood on a floor or smooth plot of 
ground. 2. A sheet of paste spread with jam 
and rolled up, to form a pudding. 
As for the roly-poly, it was too good. 
Thaclteray, Book of Snobs, i. 
3. A low, vulgar person. Halliwell. [Prov. 
Bug.] 
I'll have thee in league first with these two roUypoolif*. 
Deicfcer, Satiromastix. 
4. A short, stout person. [Colloq.] 
II. a. Of or pertaining to a roly-poly ; shaped 
like a roly-poly; round; pudgy. 
You said I make the best roly-poly puddings In the 
world. Thackeray, Great Hoggarty Diamond, xii. 
It [plum-duff] is sometimes made in the rounded form 
of the plum-pudding ; but more frequently in the roly- 
poly style. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. *207. 
Cottages, in the doors of which a few rolypoly, open- 
eyed children stood. Mrs. Crailt, Agatha's Husband, xii. 
Rom (rom), n. [Gipsy rom, a man, husband; 
prob. < Hind, dom, also domra (with initial cere- 
bral rf, which confuses with r), a man of a low 
caste who, in eastern India, make ropes, mats, 
baskets, fans, etc., and are also employed in re- 
moving dead bodies and carcasses, and are gen- 
erally thieves, but who, in western India, are 
musicians or singers; < Skt. domba (with cere- 
bral d), a man of a low caste who make their 
living by singing and dancing. Cf. Romany, 
ri2.] A Gipsy ; a Romany. 
She [the Gipsy queen] had known the chiefs of her 
people in the days . . . when the Rom was a leader in the 
prize-ring, or noted as a highwayman. 
C. 0. Leland, The Century, XXV. 909. 
Rom. An abbreviation (a) [cap. or I. c.] of 
Roman; (b) of Romance (languages). 
Romsean (ro-roe'an), n. [< Gr. 'Po/iaiof, Ro- 
man ; after Constantinople became the capi- 
tal of the empire also applied to the Greeks.] 
An inhabitant of one of the countries included 
in the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire; a 
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subject of the Greek emperor. Rnhrrfatm . Hist. 
Christ. Church, viii. 95. 
romaget, ''. and n. An obsolete form of co- 
'/<. rummage. 
Romaic (ro-ma'ik), a. and w. [= F. romaique = 
Sp. Pg. It', romaico, < ML. Bomaicus, < Gr. 'Po- 
//ai/cof, belonging to Borne, Roman, Latin (later 
applied to the Greeks when the Roman capital 
was transferred to Constantinople) (NGr. 'Pu- 
/zai'KoV, Roman, Latin, 'Pw^wm/vof, Romaic, mod- 
ern Greek), < Gr. 'Pii^, L. Roma, Rome : see Ro- 
man.] I. a. Relating to the vernacular lan- 
guage of modern Greece, or to those who use it. 
II. n. The vernacular language of modern 
Greece, the popular modern form of ancient 
Greek, written in the ancient character. The 
literary language of modern Greece is Romaic more or 
less conformed to classical Greek ; it is styled Hellenic. 
romaika (ro-ma'i-kii), n. [NGr. pu/mofr/, fern, 
of 'Pufiainof, Roman : see Romaic.] A modern 
Greek dance, characterized by serpentine fig- 
ures and a throwing of handkerchiefs among 
the dancers. 
romal 1 (ro-mal'), . See rumal. 
romal- (ro-mal'), . [Prop, "ranuil, < Sp. ramal, 
a halter, rope's end, pendant, branch, < L. ra- 
male, a branch, < ramtu, branch: see ramug, 
rammer. ] A round braided thong of leather, 
rawhide, or horsehair looped to the ends of 
the reins, and serving as a horseman's whip. 
[Western U. S.] 
He rode ahead, on his blue-roan Indian pony, twirling 
his romal, a long leathern strap attached to the saddle, 
the end divided like a double whip-lash. 
Mary HaUock Foole, St. Nicholas, XIV. 33. 
Romalea (ro-ma'le-a), n. [NL. (Serville, 1831), 
prop. Rhonialea, <'(fr. /xj^aAfoc, strong of body, 
j, bodily strength.] A notable genus of 
Lubber-grasshopper (Ktmtalea microptera). 
large-bodied short-winged locusts, or short- 
horned grasshoppers. R. microptera is the lubber- 
grasshopper of the southern United States, sharing the 
English name with a similar but quite distinct species, 
Brachygtvla magna of the western States. 
Roman (ro'man), a. and i. [Early mod. E. also 
Romiiyne; < ME. Romayne, < OF. romain, F. 
romain = Sp. Pg. It. nmtano, < L. Romamts, 
Roman, < Roma, Rome. Cf. Romish."] I. a. 1. 
Of or pertaining to ancient or modern Rome, 
or the people, institutions, or characteristics of 
Rome. 
To every /;.., citizen he gives, 
To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. 
Shak., J. C.,.iii. 2. 246. 
.Tudea now, and all the Promised Land, 
Reduced a province under Roman yoke, 
Obeys Tiberius. Milton, P. R., iii. 158. 
Hence 2. Having some attribute deemed es- 
pecially characteristic of the ancient Romans; 
noble ; distinguished ; brave ; hardy ; patriotic ; 
stern. 
What 's brave, what 's noble, 
Let 's do it after the high Roman fashion, 
And make death proud to take us. 
Shale., A. and C., iv. 15. 87. 
There is something fine, something Roman in the best 
sense, in the calm way in which the British Government of 
India looks upon itself as virtually eternal. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 7. 
3. Pertaining to Rome ecclesiastically; of or 
pertaining to the Church of Rome; papal. 
The chief grounds upon which we separate from the 
Roman communion. Burnet. 
4. [/. c. orc<y>.] Noting a form of letter or type 
of which the text of this book is an example. 
It is the form preferred for books and newspapers by the 
Latin races and by English-speaking peoples. Three se- 
ries are used conjointly in printing : (1) capitals, which are 
copies of Old Latin lapidary letters ; (2) small capitals, a 
medieval Italian fashion, first made in type by Aldus Ma- 
nutius in 1601 ; and (3) minuscule or lower-case letters, 
first made in type by Sweinheim and Pannartz at Subiaco 
in 1465, and afterward, of better form, by Jenson at Venice 
in 1471. Holy Roman Empire. See empire. Roman 
alum. See alum. Roman architecture, the architec- 
ture of the ancient Romans, characterized by admirable 
development and application of the round arch and vault, 
and of stone and particularly brick masonry of all varieties, 
especially in small materials and with proper use of excel- 
lent cements and mortar, and by adoption of the Greek 
orders in general as mere exterior ornaments in lavishness 
of redundant and artificial decoration, and without under- 
Roman 
standing of their delicately studied proportions and logi- 
cal arrangement. The true Roman architecture, con- 
sidered apart from its Hellenistic decoration, was not ar- 
tistic, though the boldness and great span of its arches 
and vaults very frequently produce a grand and majestic 
effect ; it was, however, a thoroughly practical architec- 
ture, flexible to all requirements, and admitting of the 
quick and solid construction, by great numbers of soldiers 
or other unskilled workmen, of even the greatest struc- 
Roman Architecture. Section of the Pantheon, illustrating the use 
of vaulting, arches, and columns. 
tures, as aqueducts, bridges, amphitheaters, basilicas, 
thermso, and fortresses, under the direction of a small num- 
ber of trained engineers. From the Roman arched and 
vaulted construction medieval architecture was developed, 
and back to it can be traced most that Is best in modern 
masonry. The interior decoration of Roman architec- 
ture under the empire was evolved from Greek models, 
without the Greek moderation and refinement; mosaic 
and molded stucco were profusely used, and wall-painting 
on a surface of mortar was universal. The artisans of 
this decoration were in large measure of Greek birth. 
See cuts under amphitheater, Colosseum, octastyle, Pan- 
theon. Roman art, the art of ancient Rome. Under 
the republic there was practically no Roman art. Dur- 
ing the last two centuries of the republic the spoils of 
Greece, the masterpieces of the Greek sculptor and paint- 
er, accumulated in Rome. Greek art became fashionable, 
and Greek artists began to flock to Borne. The Greek 
taste became modified to accord with the love of the Ro- 
mans for lavish richness and display. Under the em- 
pire there was developed from this Greek source a sculp- 
ture of truly Roman style, characteristic especially in its 
portrait-statues, in which the person represented is often 
Roman Art. Bust of the impress Faustina, wife of Antoninus Pius. 
idealized as a god, and which are often highly naturalistic 
and skilful in treatment, and many of them excellent art 
as portraiture. Another chief development of Roman 
sculpture is the historical relief, illustrating all phases of 
Roman imperial life and triumphs. Though these reliefs 
are seldom artistic, the episodes which they present are 
precise in detail, and strikingly true to life. Roman paint- 
ing in its origin, and with Fabius Pictor and Pacuvius, was 
Etruscan ; in its development under the empire, when it 
was profuse in quantity, covering in general the interior 
walls of all buildings of any pretension, it was Greek, 
of the degenerated but clever and light style of Alexan- 
dria. At its best, as seen in many of the wall-paintings of 
Pompeii and of Rome, it is highly decorative; and it is 
especially valuable as preserving the chief material that 
survives for the study of the great Greek painters of the 
fifth and fourth centuries B. c. See Patitelean. Roman 
balance. See steelyard. Roman camomile, a culti- 
vated form of the common camomile. Roman candle, a 
kind of firework, consisting of a tube, which discharges a 
succession of white or colored stars or balls. Roman 
Catholic, of or pertaining to the Church of Rome ; hence, 
as a noun, a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Ab- 
breviated R. C. Roman Catholic Church, the popular 
designation of the church of which the Pope or Bishop 
of Rome is the head, and which holds him, as the suc- 
cessor of St. Peter and heir of his spiritual authority, 
