||Rou`lade" (?), n. [F.] (Mus.) A smoothly running passage of short
||notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon
||one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.
||Rou`leau" (?), n.; pl. F. Rouleaux (F. &?;; E. &?;), E. Rouleaus (#).
||[F., a roll, dim. fr. fr. rôle, formerly also spelt roulle. See
||Roll.] A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something
||resembling such a roll.
Rou*lette" (?), n. [F., properly, a little wheel or ball. See Rouleau,
Roll.] 1. A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round
rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the
one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers
permitted by the game.
2. (Fine Arts) (a) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over
a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots. (b) A similar wheel
used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a
mezzotint.
3. (Geom.) the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve
when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See
Cycloid, and Epycycloid.
Rou"ly-pou`ly (?), n. See Rolly- pooly.
{ Roun, Rown (?) }, v. i. & t. [AS. r&?;nian, fr. r&?;n a rune, secret,
mystery; akin to G. raunen to whisper. See Rune.] To whisper. [obs.]
Gower.
Another rouned to his fellow low.
Chaucer.
Rounce (rouns), n. [Cf. F. ronce bramble, brier, thorn, ranche a round,
step, rack, or E. round.] (Print.) The handle by which the bed of a
hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen
and out again; -- sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the
form is moved under the platen.
Roun"ce*val (?), a. [F. Ronceval, Roncevaux, a town at the foot of the
foot of the Pyrenees, Sp. Roncesvalles.] Large; strong; -- from the
gigantic bones shown at Roncesvalles, and alleged to be those of old
heroes. [Obs.]
Roun"ce*val, n. A giant; anything large; a kind of pea called also
marrowfat. [Obs.]