Ron"del (?), n. [Cf. Rondeau, Roundel.] 1. (Fort.) A small round tower
erected at the foot of a bastion. [Obs.]
2. [F.] (a) Same as Rondeau. (b) Specifically, a particular form of
rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a
repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and
again as the thirteenth and fourteenth. E. W. Gosse.
||Ron`de*le"ti*a (?), n. [NL. So named after William Rondelet, a French
||naturalist.] (Bot.) A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often
||have brilliant flowers.
Ron"dle (?), n. [Cf. Rondel.] 1. A rondeau. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. A round mass, plate, or disk; especially (Metal.), the crust or
scale which forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible.
Ron"do (?), n. [It. rondò, fr. F. rondeau. See Rondeau.] 1. (Mus.) A
composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful
character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other
strains. "The Rondo-form was the earliest and most frequent definite
mold for musical construction." Grove.