Router
(Rout"er) n. (Carp.) (a) A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular
sashes. (b) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a
cavity.
Routhe
(Routhe) n. Ruth; sorrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Routinary
(Rou"ti*na*ry) a. Involving, or pertaining to, routine; ordinary; customary. [R.] Emerson.
Routine
(Rou*tine") n. [F., fr. route a path, way, road. See Route, Roterepetition.]
1. A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of
business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.
2. Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit.
Routinism
(Rou*tin""ism) n. the practice of doing things with undiscriminating, mechanical regularity.
Routinist
(Rou*tin"ist), n. One who habituated to a routine.
Routish
(Rout"ish) a. Uproarious; riotous. [Obs.]
Routously
(Rout"ous*ly) adv. (Law) With that violation of law called a rout. See 5th Rout, 4.
Roux
(||Roux) n. [F. beurre roux brown butter.] (Cookery) A thickening, made of flour, for soups and
gravies.
Rove
(Rove) v. t. [perhaps fr. or akin to reeve.]
1. To draw through an eye or aperture.
2. To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool. Jamieson.
3. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
Rove
(Rove) n.
1. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
Rove
(Rove), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Roving.] [Cf. D. rooven to rob; akin to E.
reave. See Reave, Rob.]
1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. [Obs.] Hakluyt.
2. Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by
sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.
For who has power to walk has power to rove.
Arbuthnot. 3. (Archery) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually
being beyond the point-blank range).
Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart
At that good knight so cunningly didst rove.
Spenser. Syn. — To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.
