If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause
misappehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by
concealment.
Bp. Fell.
Root, v. t. 1. To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the
earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish;
-- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted
dislike.
2. To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out,
or away. "I will go root away the noisome weeds." Shak.
The Lord rooted them out of their land . . . and cast them into
another land.
Deut. xxix. 28.
Root"cap` (rt"kp`), n. (Bot.) A mass of parenchymatous cells which
covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a
pileorhiza.
Root"ed, a. Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart. "A
rooted sorrow." Shak.
-- Root"ed*ly, adv. -- Root"ed*ness, n.
Rooter (?), n. One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the
roots.
Root"er*y, n. A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used
as an ornamental object in gardening.
Root"less, a. Destitute of roots.
Root"let (?), n. A radicle; a little root.
Root"stock` (?), n. (Bot.) A perennial underground stem, producing
leafly s&?;ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome.
Root"y (?), a. Full of roots; as, rooty ground.
Ro*pal"ic (?), a. See Rhopalic.
Rope (?), n. [AS. rp; akin to D. reep, G. reif ring hoop, Icel. reip
rope, Sw. rep, Dan. reb, reeb Goth. skaudaraip latchet.] 1. A large,
stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of
strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and
string, only in its size. See Cordage.
2. A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by
braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.