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.