Rock

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• Rock

  ·noun ·see <<Roc>>. II. Rock ·noun The striped bass. ·see under <<Bass>>. III. Rock ·noun That whi...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• rock

  1) A piece of money. A slang term peculiar to the South. Spare my feelings, Squire, and don't ask m...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• rock

  An extensive geological term, but limited in hydrographical parlance to hard and solid masses of the...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Bed rock

  ·- The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Pay rock

  ·add. ·- Earth, rock, ·etc., which yields a profit to the miner. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Rock shaft

  ·- A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, — usually carrying levers by means...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Rock staff

  ·vi An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. ...

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• lily, rock

  n. an orchid, Dendrobiumspeciosum, Smith, N.O. Orchideae. although not aLily, it is always so calle...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock-cod

  n. called also Red-Cod in NewZealand, Pseudophycis barbatus, Gunth., family Gadidae. In New Zealand...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock lily

  n. See under lily. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock-ling

  n. a marine fish. The AustralianR. is Genypterus australis, Castln., family Ophidiidae. The Europea...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock-native

  or Native n. a namegiven to the fish called a Schnapper when it hasceased to «school.» See Schnapp...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock-parrakeet

  n. an Australian Grass-Parrakeet (q.v.), Euphema petrophila, Gould.It gets its name from its habita...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock-pebbler

  n. another name for the Black-tailed Parrakeet. See Parrakeet. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock-perch

  n. the name given in Melbourneto the fish Glyphidodon victoriae, Gunth., family Pomacentridae, or C...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock-shelter

  n. a natural cave-dwellingof the aborigines. See Gibber-Gunyah. 1891. R. Etheridge, jun., in `Reco...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock-wallaby

  n. the popular name for anyanimal of the genus Petrogale (q.v.). There are sixspecies – – Brush-tai...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• rock led

  rash and forward, in children. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• blind-rock

  One lying just under the surface of the water, so as not to be visible in calms. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• rock-cod

  A species of cod found on a rocky bottom. ...

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• rock-hind

  A large fish of tropical regions, Serranus catus. ...

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• rock-scorpion

  A name applied to persons born at Gibraltar. ...

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• sunken rock

  That which lies beneath the surface of the sea, and is dangerous to navigation. ...

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• black rock-cod

  n. an Australian fish, chieflyof New South Wales, Serranus daemeli, Gunth.; adifferent fish from th...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• red rock-cod

  n. name given in New South Walesto the fish Scorpaena cardinalis, Richards., family Scorpaenidae, m...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Etam, The Rock

  a cliff or lofty rock, into a cleft or chasm of which Samson retired after his slaughter of the Phil...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Oreb, The Rock

  the "raven's crag," the spot, east of Jordan, at which the Midianite chieftain Oreb with thousands o...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Oreb, The rock of

  The place where Gideon slew Oreb after the defeat of the Midianites (Judg. 7:25; Isa. 10:26). It was...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary