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ROT 
t Rotinc, old Fr. par rotine, by rote. Cotgrave.] Words 
uttered by mere memory without meaning; memory of 
words without comprehension of the sense. 
First rehearse this song by rote , 
To each word a warbling note. Sha/cspeare. 
Learn Aristotle’s rules by rote. 
And at all hazards boldly quote. Swift. 
To ROTE, v. a. To fix in the memory, without inform¬ 
ing the understanding. 
Speak to the people 
Words voted in your tongue ; bastards and syllables 
Of no allowance to your bosom’s truth. Sha/cspeare. 
To ROTE, v. [rota, Lat.] To go out by rotation or suc¬ 
cession.—A third part of the senate, or parliament, should 
rote out by ballot every year, and new ones be chosen in 
their room. Grey. 
ROTEBRO, a small town of Sweden, in the province of 
Upland ; 30 miles north-north-west of Stockholm. 
ROTELE, a name by which some call the rutilus latior, 
or rubellus fuviatilis, more frequently known by the name 
of the roach. See Cyprinus. 
ROTENBURG, a small town in the interior of Switzer¬ 
land, on the river Rothbach, over which there is here a 
stone bridge. It is said to have been formerly a place of 
more importance; 4 miles north of Lucerne. 
ROTENBURG, a small town of the north of Germany, 
in Hanover, on the river Wumme. It was considered a very 
important position in the war of 1756. Population 800; 
24 miles east of Bremen, and 14 north-north-east of Verden. 
ROTGANS (Luke), a Dutch poet, was born of a distin¬ 
guished family at Amsterdam, in 1645. He died of the 
small pox in 1710, in his 66th year. Rotgans was the 
author of a number of poems, greatly esteemed in his own 
country. One of these is a “ Life of William III. in eight 
books,” a poem of the epic class. His other pieces are moral 
and miscellaneous, and, with two tragedies, were printed 
at Lewarden, in 1715, 4tO. Moreri. 
ROTGEN, a large village of the Prussian province of the 
Lower Rhine, near Eschweiler, with 800 inhabitants. There 
are large coal mines in the neighbourhood. 
RO'TGUT, s. Bad beer.—They overwhelm their paunch 
daily with a kind of flat rotgut, we with a bitter dreggish 
small liquor. Harvey. 
ROTH, a small town of the west of Germany, in Wirtem¬ 
berg. Population 900 ; 25 miles south of U!m, and 12 east- 
south-east of Biberach. 
ROTIIAR.1S, king and legislator of the Lombards. See 
Lombardy. 
ROTHBACH, a village of Bavarian Franconia. It has, 
on a small scale, manufactures of glass, copper, steel, iron, 
and paper; 3 miles north-west of Altdorf. 
ROTHBEIN. See Scolopax. 
ROTHBERG. See Rougemont. 
ROTHBURY, a parish and market town of England, in 
the county of Northumberland. It is situated on the river 
Coquet, and has a charity school and a tolerable weekly 
market on Friday. The church front is remarkable for its 
curious sculpture. Near the town are the remains of a Ro¬ 
man station, called Old Rothbury. Population of the town 
750, of the parish 3732; 11 miles south-west-by-west of 
Alnwich, and 306| north-north-west of London. 
ROTHEHUTTE, a village of the north of Germany, in 
Hanover, province of Gottingen, near Elbingerode. It con¬ 
tains only 700 inhabitants, but has a number of large iron 
works, which produce annually about 3000 tons of that 
metal. 
ROTHENACKER, a large village of the west of Ger¬ 
many, in Wirtemberg, on the Danube; 14 miles above Ulm. 
Population 1100. 
llOTHENBERG, one of the twelve departments into 
which the kingdom of Wirtemberg was divided in 1810. It 
lies adjacent to Baden, is watered by the Neckar, and con¬ 
tains Stutgard, the cap.t.,1 of the kingdom. Its area is 340 
square miles; its population 112,000. It is divided into the 
five upper bailiwics of Cannstadt, Esslingen, Leonsberg, 
Stutgard, and Waiblingen, besides the city of Stutgard, 
which has its own magistrates. 
ROTHENBERG, a small fortress of Bavarian Franconia, 
situated on a lull near the small town of Schnaitach. It was 
formerly a stronghold, but is now only a station for inva¬ 
lids. 
ROTHENBERG, a small town of the west of Germany, 
in Wirtemberg, department of the Upper Neckar. Popu¬ 
lation 900. 
ROTHENBUCH, a small town of the Bavarian circle of 
the Lower Maine, in the hilly track called the Spessart. Po¬ 
pulation 800 ; 13 miies east-bv-south of Aschatfenburg. 
ROTHENBUEG-ON-THE“-TAUBER, a town of Bava¬ 
rian Franconia, situated on a mountain, near the Tauber. 
Its manufactures are inconsiderable, but it has a high school 
and a public library, said to contain some valuable manu¬ 
scripts. The town is old, and consequently irregularly built; 
it contains, however, a square and several public buildings. 
The water in the fountains is raised from the river by machi¬ 
nery. Population 5700; 28 miles south-south-east of Wurz¬ 
burg, and 18 west-north-west of Anspach. 
ROTIIENBURG, a small town of Prussian Silesia, in the 
government of Liegnitz, on the Neisse, with 900 inhabitants ; 
12 miles north of Gorlitz, and 55 east-north-east of Dresden. 
ROTIIENBURG, a village of Prussian Saxony, on the 
Saale. It has a large copper-mine. Population 800 ; 13 
miles north-north-west of Halle. 
ROTIIENBURG, a small town of the west of Germany, 
in the electorate of Hesse, on the River Fulda. It is fortified 
and divided into the old and new towns, but has only about 
3000 inhabitants; 23 miles south-south-east of Cassel, and 
9 north of Ilersfeld. 
ROTHENECK, a small town of the Austrian States, in 
Tyrol, not far from Brixen. It is the chief place of a dis¬ 
trict in the Pusterthall. 
ROTHENFELD, a small town of the west of Germany, 
in Baden, on the Murg. Population 900; 6 miles east- 
south-east of Rastadt. 
ROTI1ENFELDE, a village of Germany, in the west of 
Hanover, principality of Osnabruck, near Dissen, with a 
large salt-work, which produces annually about 2700 tons. 
ROTHENFELS, a small town of Bavarian Franconia, on 
the Maine. Population 1400; 15 miles west-north-west of 
W urzburg. 
ROTHEN-THURM, or VOROS TORONY, the Red 
Tower, a narrow pass in the Carpathian mountains, between 
Transylvania and Walachia, about 10 miles from Ilermann- 
stadt. Adjoining to it on a hill overlooking the Aluta, is a 
fortified castle, with a lazaretto. 
ROTHER, a river of England, which, rising in Sussex, 
forms the boundary for a short way between that county and 
Kent, and falls into the English channel at Rye.—Also a 
river in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, which runs into the Don 
at Rotherham. 
ROTHER-BEASTS, s. [hpySep, Sax. hjpySejiu, boves, 
vaccrn ; hrutr, or ru.tr, Icel. aries, from ne, vellus, csesaries. 
Serenius.] Hornedcattle ; black cattle. Phillips says it N used 
in old statutes, and in his time in the noith of England. 
The beare to chase, the hind to runne, the cruel boare to fall 
Upon the beards of rother-beasts had now no lust at all. 
Golding. 
RO'THER-NAILS, s. [a corruption of rudder .] Among 
shipwrights, nails with very full heads used for fastening the 
rudder irons of ships. Bailey. 
RO'THER-SOIL, s. The dung of rother-beasts. Bailei/. 
ROTHERFIELD, a parish of England, in Sussex; 5 
miles west-sonth-west of Wadhurst. Population 2122. 
ROTHERFIELD GREYS, a parish of England in Ox¬ 
fordshire ; 2,j miles west-by-south of Henley-upon-Thames. 
Population 668. 
ROTHERFIELD PEPARD, a parish of England, in 
Oxford; 4 miles west-by-south of Henley-upon-Thames. 
ROTHERHAM, 
