The most bewitching leer with her eyes, the most roguish cast.
Dryden.
-- Rogu"ish*ly, adv. -- Rogu"ish*ness, n.
Rogu"y (?), a. Roguish. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
Ro"hob (?), n. An inspissated juice. See Rob.
Roi"al (?), a. Royal. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Roil (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Roiling.] [Cf.
OE. roilen to wander; possibly fr. OF. roeler to roll, equiv. to F.
rouler. See Roll, v., and cf. Rile.] 1. To render turbid by stirring up
the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or
bottles; to roil a spring.
2. To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the
passion of resentment in; to perplex.
That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him [Judge
Jeffreys] exceedingly.
R. North.
Provincial in England and colloquial in the United States. A commoner,
but less approved, form is rile.