Rock

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·see Roc.

II. Rock ·noun The striped bass. ·see under Bass.

III. Rock ·noun That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.

IV. Rock ·vi To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.

V. Rock ·noun Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.

VI. Rock ·noun A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. ·see Stone.

VII. Rock ·vt To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to Still; to Quiet.

VIII. Rock ·noun A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.

IX. Rock ·vi To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to Reel; to Totter.

X. Rock ·noun Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, ·etc., when in natural beds.

XI. Rock ·vt To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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