An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 691
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 691
ROMBLE, _s._ A blow.
_Barbour._
Teut. _rommel-en_, strepere.
ROME-RAKARIS, _s. pl._ Those who pretend to bring relics from Rome.
_Bannatyne P._
RONDELLIS, _s. pl._ Small round targets;
Fr. _rondelles._
_Complaynt S._
RONE, _s._ Sheep-skin dressed so as to appear like goat-skin; S. _roan_.
_Wynt._
Perh. from _Roan_, _Rohan_, in France; like _cordovan_, from Cordova.
RONE, RON, _s._
1. A shrub.
_Wallace._
Isl. _runn_, a bush or shrub.
2. Brushwood.
_Henrysone._
RONE, _s._ A coa.r.s.e substance adhering to flax, which, in hackling, is sc.r.a.ped off with a knife, Perths.
Isl. _hrion_, roughness.
RONE, _s._ The mountain-ash.
V. ~Rountree~.
_Maitland P._
RONE, _s._ A run of ice, S.
_Lyndsay._
Isl. _hroenn_, sparsa congeries ex nive.
RONE, _s._ A spout for carrying from the roof, S. O.
Sw. _raenna_, id.; Mod. Sax. _ronne_, a ca.n.a.l.
RONGED, _part. adj._ Gnawed.
_Knox._
Fr. _ronge_, id.
RONGIN, _pret._ Reigned.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
RONK, _s._ Moisture.
_K. Hart._
RONKIS, _s. pl._ Folds.
_Dunbar._
Su. G. _rynka_, a wrinkle, a fold.
RONNACHS, _s. pl._ Couch-gra.s.s, Aberd.
RONNYS.
V. ~Rone~, 2.
ROOD-DAY, _s._
V. ~Rude-day~.