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him as “ a man of a profound judgment, a vast comprehen¬ 
sion, prodigious memory, solid experience. His skill in the 
mathematics was reverenced by all the lovers of those studies, 
and his perfection in many other sorts of learning deserves 
no less admiration. But above all, his knowledge had a 
right influence on the temper of his mind ; which had all the 
humility, goodness, calmness, strength, and sincerity of a 
sound and unaffected philosopher.” Dr. John Ward, in the 
work referred to below, observes, that “ these accounts give 
us his picture only in miniature; but his successor, Dr. Bar- 
row, has drawn it in full proportion in his oration at Gres- 
ham-college.” The only pieces which were published from 
his papers, consist of “ Observationes in Cometam, qui 
mense Decembri, Anno 1652, apparuit,” mentioned above, 
and which was printed by Dr. Seth Ward, in his “ Lectures 
on Comets“ Directions for Seamen going to the East and 
West Indies,” which were drawn up at the appointment of 
the Royal Society, and are inserted in the “Phil. Transac¬ 
tions” for 1665 ; “A Method for observing the Eclipses of 
the Moon, free from the common Inconveniences,” to be 
seen in the “Phil. Transact." for 1666; “A Discourse con¬ 
cerning the Observations of the Eclipses of the Satellites of 
Jupiter,” printed in “ The History of the Royal Society;” 
and “ An Account of an Experiment made with Oil in their 
long Tube,” read to the Royal Society, April 25th, 1662, 
and entered in the 1st vol. of their Registers. By this experi¬ 
ment it was found, that the oil sunk when the sun shone out, 
and rose when it was clouded; and the account mentions 
the proportions of its rise and fal 1. 
ROO'KERY, s. A nursery of rooks.—No lone house in 
Wales, with a mountain and a rookery, is more contempla¬ 
tive than this court. Pope. 
ROOKY, adj. Inhabited by rooks. 
Light thickens, and the crow 
Makes wing, to the rooky wood. , Shakspeare . 
ROOM, s. [pum, Saxon, and Su. Goth, nans, M. Goth, 
space, a place.] Space; extent of place great or small.—If 
you will a young man to put his travels into a little room, 
and in short time gather much, this he must do. Bacon .— 
Space or place unoccupied; way unobstructed.—Make room, 
and let him stand before our face. Shakspeare. —Place of 
another; stead.—In evils, that cannot be removed without 
the manifest danger of greater to succeed in their rooms , 
wisdom of necessity must give place to necessity. Hooker .— 
By contributing to the contentment of other men, and ren¬ 
dering them as happy as liesin our power, we do God’s work, 
are in his place and room. Calamy. —Unobstructed oppor¬ 
tunity.—It puts us upon so eager a pursuit of the advantages 
of life, as leaves no room to reflect on the great author of 
them. Atterbury. —Possible admission; possible mode. 
Will you not look with pity on me ? 
Is there no hope ? is there no room for pardon ? A. Philips. 
An apartment in a house; so much of a house as is in¬ 
closed within partitions. 
I found the prince in the next room. 
Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks. Shakspeare. 
Particular place of station. 
With price whereof they buy a golden ball. 
And purchase highest rooms in boure and hall. Spenser. 
Office. Obsolete.— He exercised his high rome of chan¬ 
cellorship, as he was accustomed. Cavendish. 
ROO’MAGE, s. Space; place.—Man, of all sensible 
creatures, has the fullest brain to his proportion, for the 
lodging of the intellective faculties; it must be a silent cha¬ 
racter of hope, when there is good store of roomage, and 
receipt, where those powers are stowed. Wotton. 
ROO'MFUL, adj. Abounding with rooms. Not in 
use .—-Now in a roomful house. Donne. 
ROO'MINESS, s. Space; quantity of extent. 
ROOMTH, s. Space; place. Old word. 
Unto his root all put their hands to hew. 
Whose roomth but hinders others that would grow. Drayton. 
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Not finding fitting roomth upon the rising side. Draj~ 
ton. 
ROOM'THY, adj. Spacious. Old word. —The land 
was far roomthier than the scale of miles doth make it. 
Fuller. 
ROO'MY, adj. Spacious; wide ; large. 
With roomy decks, her guns of mighty strength, 
Deep in her draught, and warlike in her length. Dryden. 
ROONAY, a town of Bengal, district of Birbhoom. It 
formerly possessed a small fort, which commanded the high 
road. Lat.24. 26. N. long. 87. E. 
ROOP, s. [ liroop, Icel, vociferation ; from the Goth, 
hropian, to cry out; often, as Dr. Jamieson observes, the 
cause of hoarseness.] A hoarseness. Northern. 
ROOP AT, a town in the east coast of Sumatra. Lat. 1. 3. 
N. long 101. 12. E. 
ROOPNAGUR, a town of Hindostan, province of 
Agmeer, belonging to the rajah of Jyenagur. Lat. 26.39. N. 
long. 75. 52. E. 
ROOPOOR, a town of Hindostan, province of Delhi, but 
belonging to the Seiks. It is situated on the south-east 
bank of the river Suttelege. Lat. 31. 7. N. long. 75. 50. 
E. 
ROOSEBECKE, a small town of the Netherlands, in 
West Flanders, with nearly 4000 inhabitants. Here the 
French and Burgundians obtained a complete victory over the 
Flemings in 1382; 8 miles north of Courtrai, and 20 south¬ 
west ot Ghent. 
ROOSEVILLE, a post village of the United States in 
Delaware county, New York. 
ROOSLAER, a small town of the Netherlands, in South 
Brabant, district of Nivelles. Population 1200. 
ROOST, s. [hpopc. Sax.] That on which a bird sits to 
sleep. 
Sooner than the mattin-bell was rung, 
He clapp’d his wings upon his roost , and sung. Dryden. 
The act of sleeping.—Large and strong muscles move the 
wings, and support the body at roost. Derham. 
To ROOST, v. n. [roesten, Dutch.] To sleep as a bird. 
—The cock roosted at night upon the boughs. L'Estrange. 
—To lodge. (In burlesque). 
ROOT, s. [rot, Swedish , roed, Danish.] That part of 
the plant which rests in the ground, and supplies the stems 
with nourishment; see Botany, p. 237-8.-—The layers will 
in a month strike root, being planted in a light loamy earth. 
Evelyn. —-When you would have many new roots of fruit 
trees, take a low tree and bow it, and lay all its branches 
aflat upon the ground, and cast earth upon them, and every 
twig will take root. Bacon. 
A flower inuneadow ground, amellus call’d ; 
And from one root the rising stem bestows 
A wood of leaves. Dryden. 
In October, the hops will settle and strike root against 
spring. Mortimer. —The bottom; the lower part. 
Deep to the roots of hell the gather’d beach 
They fasten’d. Milton. 
These subterraneous vaults would be found especially 
about the roots of the mountains. Burnet. —A plant of 
which the root is esculent. 
Nor were the cole-worts wanting, nor the root, 
Which after-ages call Hybernian fruit. Harte. 
The originalthe first cause.-—The love of money is the 
root of all evil, is a truth universally agreed in. Temple. — 
The first ancestor. 
Whence, 
But from the author of all ill, could spring 
So deep a malice, to confound the race 
Of mankind in one root. Milton. 
They were the roots, out of which sprang two distinct 
people. 
