2. Any bad spirituous liquor, especially when adulterated so as to be
very deleterious. [Slang]
Roth"er (?), a. [AS. hryðer; cf. D. rund.] (Zoöl.) Bovine. -- n. A
bovine beast. [Obs.] Shak.
Rother beasts, cattle of the bovine genus; black cattle. [Obs.]
Golding. -- Rother soil, the dung of rother beasts.
Roth"er, n. [OE. See Rudder.] A rudder.
Rother nail, a nail with a very full head, used for fastening the
rudder irons of ships; -- so called by shipwrights.
Ro"ti*fer (?; 277), n. [NL. see Rotifera.] (Zoöl.) One of the Rotifera.
See Illust. in Appendix.
||Ro*tif"e*ra (?), n.; pl. [NL., from L. rota &?; wheel + ferre to
||bear.] (Zoöl.) An order of minute worms which usually have one or two
||groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often
||give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very
||numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form and
||habits.
Ro"ti*form (?), a. [L. rota wheel + -form.] 1. Wheel-shaped; as,
rotiform appendages.