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ROGERSVILLE, a post town of the United States, in 
Pendleton district, South Carolina. 
ROGCrENBURG, a small town in the west of Bavaria, 
on the river Gunz; 14 miles south-east of Ulm. Population 
1800. 
ROGGENDORF, a hamlet of the Prussian states, in the 
duchy of Juliers. It has considerable lead mines, with gal¬ 
leries under ground, of great extent. 
ROGGEVELD, Upper, Middle, and Little, three 
districts in the northern part of the territory of the Cape of 
Good Hope, occupying a table land formed at the summit of 
the great range of mountains, from which it derives its name, 
and which are two or three thousand feet high. It contains 
the largest and best breed of horses in the colony; but the 
temperature is in winter so cold, that the inhabitants are 
under the necessity of coming down for four months to the 
foot of the mountains. 
ROGIATE, a village of England, on the banks of the river 
Severn, in Monmouthshire, near Caldicote. 
ROGLIANO, a town of Italy, in the south part of the 
kingdom of Naples, in Calabria Citra. It contains 3400 
inhabitants, who, like the great majority of their country¬ 
men, live in extreme poverty 5 7 miles south-by-east of 
Cosenza. 
ROGLIANO, a town of Corsica. Population 1300. 
ROGME, s. a fracture. (An obsolete surgical term). 
ROGNES, a town of France, department of the Mouths 
of the Rhone, with 2000 inhabitants. The chief branch of 
industry is the making of perfumery and liquors; 12 miles 
north-west of Aix. #• 
ROGONAUTGUNGE, a town of Bengal, district of 
Pacheet. Lat. 23. 15. N. long. 86 . 20. E. 
ROGONAUTPORE, a considerable town of Bengal, 
district of Pacheet. Lat. 23. 32. N. long. 86 . 44. E. 
ROGORETO, a village of Switzerland ; 4 miles east-by¬ 
north of Belinzona, on the river Muesa, with 800 inhabit¬ 
ants. 
ROGOWNO, an unfortified town of the north-west of 
European Russia, government of Wilna. 
ROGUE, s. [of uncertain etymology, Dr. Johnson.— 
Mr. Horne Tooke pronounces it the past participle of the 
Saxon, ppijan: “ Rogue (according to the usual change of 
the characteristic i) is the past tense, and therefore past par¬ 
ticiple, ofppijan, and means covered, cloaked; most aptly 
applied to the character designated by that term.” Dio. of 
Purley, ii. 227.-— Rogues, in our old books, are “ sturdy 
beggars." This is the earliest acceptation of the word. I 
conceive it therefore to descend from the Dutch prachgen, 
to go a begging, whence ovs prog, written also progue, a 
word of bad meaning; and thence, omitting p, the word 
before us. Todd. ] ■—■ A wandering beggar ; a vagrant ; 
a vagabond.—The scum of people and wicked condemned 
men spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like 
rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy and do mischief. 
Bacon.-^ The troops are all scattered, and the commanders 
very poor rogues. Shakspeare. —A knave; a dishonest 
fellow; a villain; a thief.—Thou kill’st me like a rogue and 
a villain. Shakspeare. 
If he call rogue and rascal from the garret. 
He means you no more mischief than a parrot. Dry den. 
The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. 
And ev’n the best, by fits, what they despise. Pope . 
A name of slight tenderness and endearment. 
I never knew a woman love man so, 
—Alas, poor rogue, I think indeed she loves. Shakspeare. 
A wag. [rogue, Fr. malapert, saucy. Cotgrave.] Dr. 
Johnson cites no etymon, but a passage from Shakspeare’s 
Hamlet, in which he has converted peasant into pleasant, 
and has there mistaken the sense of the word.—The satirical 
rogue says here, that old men have grey beards. Shak¬ 
speare. 
The term rogue, though of little definite import, is very 
common in our statutes. The general distress which was 
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inflicted on the lower orders by the breaking up of the 
great feudal establishments in the reign of Henry VII. over¬ 
whelmed the country with rogues and vagabonds, and hence 
the most severe laws were passed against them. In the 27 
Henry VIII. it was enacted, that an idle and sturdy beggar, 
who, by ancient statutes, is called a rogue of the first de¬ 
gree, should be punished, for the first offence, by whipping, 
and boring through the gristle of the right ear, with a hot iron, 
an inch in compass; and, for the second offence, when he 
is called a rogue of the second degree, be put to death as 
a felon, if he be above eighteen years of age. 
To ROGUE, v. n. To wander; to play the vagabond. 
—If he be but once so taken idly roguing, he may punish 
him with the stocks. Spenser. —He rogued away at last 
and was lost. Carew. —To play knavish tricks. 
This was thy roguing. 
For thou art ever whispering. Beaunt. and FI. 
RO'GUERY, s. The life of a vagabond. 
To live in one land is captivity. 
To run all countries a wild roguery. Do?tne. 
Knavish tricks.—You rogue, here’s lime in this sack too ; 
there’s nothing but roguery to be found in villainous man. 
Shakspeare. 
Like the devil did tempt and sway ’em 
To rogueries, and then betray ’em. Hudi bras. 
Waggery; arch tricks.—The other Terrae Filius made up 
what was wanting on Saturday; full of waggery and 
roguery, but little wit. • Life of A. Wood. 
ROGUE’S' YARN, a name given to a rope-yarn, which is 
placed in the middle of every strand, in all cables and cord¬ 
age in the king’s service. It differs from all the rest, as being 
untarred and twisted in a contrary manner, by which it is 
easily discovered. The use of this contrivance is to exa- 
mine whether any cordage, supposed to be stolen or em¬ 
bezzled, has been formed for the king’s service, the possessor 
of which is subject to a heavy fine. Falconer. 
RO'GUESHIP, s. The qualities or personage of a rogue. 
Bay, in what nasty cellar under ground. 
Or what church porch your rogueship may be found ? 
Dryden. 
RO'GUISH, adj. Vagrant; vagabond. — Though the 
persons, by whom it is used, be of better note than the for¬ 
mer roguish sort; yet the fault is no less worthy of a mar¬ 
shal. Spenser. —Knavish ; fraudulent. 
He gets a thousand thumps and kicks. 
Yet cannot leave his roguish tricks. Swift. 
Waggish; wanton; slightly mischievous.— The most 
bewitching leer with her eyes, the most roguish oast; her 
cheeks are dimpled as when she smiles, and her smiles would 
tempt an hermit. Dryden. —Timothy used to be playing 
roguish tricks; when his mistress’s back was turned, he 
would loll out his tongue. Arbuthnot. 
RO'GUISHLY, adv. Like a rogue; knavishly; wan¬ 
tonly.—His heir roguishly wasteth all. Granger. 
RO'GUISHNESS, s. The qualities of a rogue. 
RO’GUY, adj. Knavish; wanton. A bad word. 
Go, buy some ballad of the faery king. 
And of the beggar wench; some roguy thing, 
Which thou may’st chaunt unto the chambermaid. Mdrston. 
ROHAN (Henry), Duke of, second of the name, one of 
the first in rank, talents, and character of the French no¬ 
bility of his time, was born at the castle of Blein in Britany, 
in 1579. At the age of 16 he distinguished himself at the 
siege of Amiens under the eyes of Henry IV., who had a 
great affection for him, and to whom he was presumptive 
heir before the birth of the Dauphin. After the death of 
Henry, he was at the head of the Calvinist party in 
France, a station which he retained during three religious 
wars against the authority of Lewis XIII. In the first, in 
1621, he defended Montauban in person, where he animated 
his party by the following address: “ You have sworn the 
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