HOD 
The pastoral reed 
Of Hermes, or his opiate rod. Milton. 
O gentle sleep, I cry’d. 
Why is thy gift to me alone deny’d ? 
Mildest of beings, friend to ev’ry clime, 
Where lies my error, what has been my crime ? 
Beasts, birds, and cattle feel thy balmy rod ; 
The drowsy mountains wave, and seem to nod; 
The torrents cease to chide, the seas to roar, 
And the hush’d waves recline upon the shore. Hcirte. 
Any thing long and slender. 
Haste, ye Cyclops, with your forked rods, 
This rebel love braves all the gods, 
And every hour by love is made, 
Some heaven-defying Encelade. Granville. 
An instrument for measuring; 16| feet long.—Decem- 
peda was a measuring rod for taking the dimensions of 
buildings, and signified the same thing as pertica, taken as 
a measure of length. Arbuthnot. —An instrument of cor¬ 
rection, made of twigs tied together. 
I am whipt and scourg’d with rods. 
Nettled, and stung with pismires, when I hear 
Of Bolingbroke. Sha/cspeare. 
In this condition the rod of God hath a voice to be heard, 
and he, whose office it is, ought now to expound to the sick 
man the peculiar meaning of the voice. Hammond. —Grant 
me and my people the benefit of thy chastisements; lhat thy 
rod, as well as thy staff, may comfort us. King Charles. 
A wit’s a feather, and a chief a rod; 
An honest man’s the noblest work of God. Pope. 
% RODA, a town in the interior of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Altenburg; 8 miles south-east of Jena, with 800 in¬ 
habitants. 
RODA, a town of Spain, in Catalonia, on the Ter; 6 
miles north-north-east of Vique. Population 2400. 
RODA, a small town of Spain, in Arragon; 23 miles east- 
south-east of Barbastro. 
RODA, a small town of Prussian Saxony, in Thuringia; 
3 miles north of Sangershausen. 
RODA, LA, a town of Spain, in La Mancha, with 2400 
inhabitants. The streets are wider, and the houses less un¬ 
comfortable than in most towns of this backward province; 
20 miles south of Alarcon, and 22 south-east of San Cle¬ 
mente. 
RODACH, a small river of Germany, in Franconia, which 
joins the Itz, six miles south of Coburg. 
RODACH, a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Saxe-Coburg, on the above river; 6 miles west-north-west of 
Coburg. Population 1300. 
ROD AS, a settlement of New Granada, in the province 
and government of Antioquia. 
RODBACK, a village of Swedish Lapland, in the province 
of Umea-Lapmark, to the south of the river called Umea- 
Elf. In the neighbourhood are several salt-mines, and the 
adjoining meadows contain such a quantity of that mineral 
in their soil, that in dry weather they are completely whitened. 
RODBORNE, a village of England, in Wiltshire; 3 miles 
south-by-east of Malmesbury. 
RODBORNE, a village of England, in Warwickshire, be¬ 
tween Southam and Daventry. 
RODBOROUGH, a township of England, county of 
Gloucester; 1 mile west-by-south of Stroud. Population 
1628. 
RODBURN CHENEY, a parish of England, in Wilt¬ 
shire; three miles north-west-by-north of Swindon. Popu¬ 
lation 463. 
RODBYE, commonly called Roebye, a small sea-port 
town of Denmark, in the island of Laland, on an arm of the 
Baltic. It has a convenient harbour, and is the usual place 
for crossing by ferries to Holstein and tire island of Femern. 
Population 800; 12 miles south-east of Naskov. 
RODD, a village of England, in Herefordshire; 4 miles 
north-north-east of Kington. * 
ROD 179 
RODDA, a village of Upper Egypt, at the mouth of one 
of the branches of the canal of Joseph; 3 miles east of Ash- 
munein. 
RODDEN, a river of England, in the county of Salop, 
which runs into the Tern; 3 miles west of Wellington. 
RODDEN, a hamlet of England, in Wiltshire; 2 miles 
from Frome, Somersetshire. 
RODDEN CRIBS, a sort of large wicker-work basket, 
for containing the hay or other fodder in farm-yards. Used 
in Lincolnshire. 
RODDINGTON, a village and parish of England, in 
Salop, situated on the river Rodden ; 4| miles north-west-by¬ 
west of Wellington. Population 361. 
ROD'DY, adj. Full of rods or twigs. Not in use. 
Cotgrave, and Sherwood. 
RODE (Bernard), an eminent Prussian painter, was born 
at Berlin in 1725. At an early period he displayed great 
attachment to the sciences, but afterwards devoted himself 
entirely to painting, in the study of which he was encou¬ 
raged and liberally supported by his father, who was a very 
ingenious goldsmith. In 1750 he went to Paris, where he 
remained a year and a half, during which time he received 
instruction from Charles Vanloo and Restaut. He then 
returned to his native place, and two years after, visited Italy, 
where he passed the greatest part of his time at Venice. 
After an absence of two years, he returned to Berlin, and first 
distinguished himself by historical and allegorical paintings, 
four of which he executed for a Greek church in the Ukraine. 
He presented to the garrison church at Berlin four allegorical 
paintings, in which he introduced four of the, Prussian 
generals who had rendered their names celebrated in the 
seven year’s war. He painted also historical pieces on a 
smaller scale, and in such abundance, that it appeared incon¬ 
ceivable how he could find sufficient time to complete 
them. The greater part of these he engraved in a very good 
style, to the amount of about one hundred and fifty, a 
catalogue of which was afterwards published. Among these 
are some studies of landscapes, which he sketched in the 
course of his travels. One of the most remarkable of his 
pictures is that of Christ raising up the dead. This 
alone is sufficient to entitle him to a distinguished rank 
among historical painters; but the excellence of his genius is 
most conspicuous in the paintings which he executed in the 
large gallery of the palace of Sans Souci, and in the hall 
adjacent to it. In 1783, he was appointed director of the 
Academy of Painting at Berlin, and died in the month of 
June, 1797. — Neues Historisch ■—biogrcfphisches Hand- 
wdrterbuch von J. G. Grohmann. 
RODE, pret. of ride. —He in paternal glory rode. 
Milton. 
RODE, s. [pob, Sax.] The cross. See Rood. 
RODE, NORTH, a hamlet of England, in Cheshire; 3| 
miles north-east of Congleton. 
RODE, ODD, a village of England, in Cheshire; 2 
miles north-west of Church Lawton. Population 1003. 
RODELEY, a village of England, in Leicestershire; 2 
miles south of Mount Sorrel. 
RODELHEIM, a town of Gennany, in Hesse-Darmstadt, 
in Upper Hesse; 3 miles west of Frankfort on the Maine. 
Population 900. It has a large manufactory of sulphuric, 
nitric, and muriatic acids, and is the chief place of the prin¬ 
cipality of Solms-Rodelheim. 
RODELLE, a village of France, department of the Avey- 
ron, with 1500 inhabitants. 
ROELSEE, a small town of Gennany, in the Bavarian 
states, circle of the Lower Maine; 2 miles from Kitzingen. 
In the neighbourhood is a castle on a lofty hill, where Pepin, 
the father of Charlemagne, is said to have been born. 
RODEMACHERN, or Rodemack, a town of France, 
department of the Moselle, with nearly 1000 inhabitants; 
9 miles north-north-east of Thionville, and 25 north of 
Metz. 
RODENBERG, a town of Germany, in the part of the 
county of Schauenburg belonging to Hesse-Cassel. Popu¬ 
lation 850; 17 miles west-by-south of Hanover. 
RODER, 
