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Rome"ward (?), adv. Toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church.

Rome"ward, a. Tending or directed toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church.

To analyze the crisis in its Anglican rather than in its Romeward aspect.

Gladstone.

Rom"ic (?), n. A method of notation for all spoken sounds, proposed by Mr. Sweet; -- so called because it is based on the common Roman-letter alphabet. It is like the palæotype of Mr. Ellis in the general plan, but simpler.

Rom"ish (?), a. Belonging or relating to Rome, or to the Roman Catholic Church; -- frequently used in a disparaging sense; as, the Romish church; the Romish religion, ritual, or ceremonies.

Rom"ist, n. A Roman Catholic. [R.] South.

Romp (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Romped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Romping.] [A variant of ramp. See Ramp to leap, Rampallian.] To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

Romp, n. 1. A girl who indulges in boisterous play.

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2. Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport.

While romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust.

Thomson.

Romp"ing (?), a. Inclined to romp; indulging in romps.

A little romping girl from boarding school.

W. Irving.

Romp"ing*ly, adv. In a romping manner.

Romp"ish, a. Given to rude play; inclined to romp.

--- Romp"ish, adv. -- Romp"ish*ness, n.

Rom"pu (?), a. [F. rompu, p. p. of rompre to breeak, L. rumpere. See Rupture.] (Her.) Broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, or the like.

Ron`ca*dor" (?), n. [Sp., a snorer, fr. roncar to snore. So called in allusion to the grunting noise made by them on being taken from the water. ] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of California sciænoid food fishes, especially Roncador Stearnsi, which is an excellent market fish, and the red roncador (Corvina, or Johnius, saturna).

Ron"chil (?), n. [Cf. Sp. ronquillo slightly hoarse.] (Zoöl.) An American marine food fish (Bathymaster signatus) of the North Pacific coast, allied to the tilefish. [Written also ronquil.]

Ron"co (?), n. [Sp. ronco hoarse.] (Zoöl.) See Croaker, n., 2. (a). [Texas]

||Ron`dache" (?), n. [F.] (Anc. Armor.) A circular shield carried by ||foot soldiers.

||Ronde (?), n. [F.] (Print.) A kind of script in which the heavy ||strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together ||a round look.

Ron*deau" (?), n. [F. See Roundel.] [Written also rondo.] 1. A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule.

When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the 17th century the approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses with a refrain. Encyc. Brit.

2. (Mus.) See Rondo, 1.