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rock(1) (iou)



rock noun1. ME.
[Old French ro(c)que var. of Old & mod. French roche = medieval Latin rocca, rocha of unkn. origin.]
A large rugged mass of stone forming a cliff, crag, or Other natural feature. ME.
b. A large stone, a boulder; US a stone of any size. E18.
c. A curling-stone. Canad. E20.
transf. & fig.
a. sing. & in pl. A source of danger or destruction. E16.
b. A thing providing a sure foundation or support; a source of shelter or protection; spec. Jesus Christ. Cf. STONE noun 7a. E16.
Janet Morgan Her father..was 'the rock' on which the family rested.
c. A coin, spec. a dollar; in pl., money. US slang. M19.
d. A precious stone, spec. a diamond. slang (orig. US). E20.
e. An ice-cube; in pl., cubed or crushed ice for use in a drink. slang (orig. US). M20.
f. In pl. The testicles. coarse slang. M20.
g. The drug crack. Also, a small piece of crack or of crystallized cocaine. Cf. CRACK noun 13. slang (orig. US). L20.
Stone occurring in bulk as part of the earth's fabric, either exposed at the surface or lying underneath soil, water, etc.; similar material on any Other planet. L16.
b. Geology. Any of the mineral constituents of which the earth's crust is composed, including sands, clays, etc. L18.
c. Mineral ore. US. M19.
In full rockfish. Any of various fishes frequenting rocks or rocky bottoms. L16.
b. = rock-salmon (c) below. L20.
In full rock-dove, rock-pigeon. A wild pigeon, Columba livia, which roosts in caves and on cliff ledges and is the ancestor of many breeds of domestic pigeon. E17.
A kind of hard confectionery usually made in cylindrical peppermint-flavoured sticks. M18.
A mistake made by a Baseball player. Freq. in pull a rock, make such a mistake. US slang. M20.
Phrases: between a rock and a hard place N. Amer. colloq. without a satisfactory alternative, in difficulty. blue rock a blue variety of rock-dove. cock-of-the-rock: see COCK noun1. get one's rocks off coarse slang (a) achieve sexual satisfaction; (b) obtain enjoyment or satisfaction. like a shag on a rock: see SHAG noun2. on the rocks colloq. (a) short of money; destitute; (b) (esp. of a Marriage) on the point of dissolution, in danger of breaking up; (c) (of a drink) served undiluted with ice. pull a rock: see sense 7 above. red rock, red rock-cod, red rock fault, red rockfish: see RED adjective. rock of ages rhyming slang wages. schooner on the rocks: see SCHOONER noun1. serpentine rock: see SERPENTINE noun 3. the Rock Gibraltar. trap rock: see TRAP noun4.
Comb.: rock alum alum prepared from Italian alunite; rock badger = rock hyrax below; rock bar Physical Geography = RIEGEL; rock-basin a basin-shaped hollow in a rock, esp. one of natural origin; Geology a large depression in a rocky area, attributed to the action of ice; rock bass a red-eyed N. American fish, Ambloplites rupestris, of the sunfish family Centrarchidae, found chiefly in rocky streams; rock Beauty (a) a small dark brown and yellow Caribbean reef fish, Holacanthus tricolor; (b) an ornamental cruciferous rock-plant, Petrocallis pyrenaica, of the Alps and Pyrenees, with lilac flowers; rock-bed a base of rock, a rocky bottom; rock-bird a bird that lives in or frequents rocky places; esp. a puffin; rock bolt Mining a tensioned rod passing through a bed of rock and anchoring it to the body of rock behind; rock-bottom noun & adjective (a) noun bedrock; fig. the lowest possible level; (b) adjective lowest possible, (of a price) unbeatable; fundamental, firmly grounded; rock-bound adjective (of a coast) rocky and inaccessible by sea; rock brake the parsley fern, Cryptogramma crispa; rock-bun = rock-cake below; rockburst a sudden violent rupture or collapse of highly stressed rock in a mine; rock-cake a small currant cake with a hard uneven surface; rock-candy N. Amer. = sense 6 above; rock cavy a cavy, Kerodon rupestris, of dry rocky parts of eastern Brazil; also called moco; rock chuck the N. American yellow-bellied marmot, Marmota flaviventris; rock coal US anthracite; rock cod any of a number of marine fishes, chiefly in the Families Scorpaenidae and Serranidae, that frequent rocky habitats, esp. in Australian waters; rock cook a wrasse, Centrolabrus exoletus, found off European coasts and occasionally in intertidal pools; rock cress any of various chiefly white-flowered plants belonging to or formerly included in the genus Arabis; rock-crusher (a) a machine used to break down rocks; (b) Bridge a superlative hand; rock crystal quartz in the form of transparent colourless crystals; a piece of this; rock cycle Geology an idealized cycle of processes undergone by rocks in the earth's crust, involving igneous intrusion, uplift, erosion, transportation, deposition as sedimentary rock, metamorphism, remelting, and further igneous intrusion; rock-dove: see sense 5 above; rock duck = harlequin duck s.v. HARLEQUIN noun & adjective; rock-dust noun & verb (N. Amer.) (a) noun pulverized stone used to prevent explosions in coalmines; (b) verb trans. treat (a mine) with this; rock-face a vertical expanse of natural rock; rockfall a descent of loose rocks; a mass of fallen rock; rock fan Physical Geography an eroded rock surface similar in shape to an alluvial fan, with a convex profile in transverse section; rock-fill Engineering large rock fragments used to form the bulk of the material of a dam; rockfish: see sense 4 above; rock-flour finely powdered rock, esp. that formed as a result of glacial erosion; rockfoil [from FOIL noun1] = SAXIFRAGE; rock-Garden a mound or bank built of earth and stones and planted with rock-plants; a Garden in which rockeries are the chief feature; rock glacier a large mass of rock debris, in some cases mingled with ice, which moves gradually downhill; rock goat the ibex; rock grouse the ptarmigan; rock hair any of several pendent lichens of the genus Alectoria; rock-hewn adjective cut out of the rock; rock-hog slang a labourer engaged in tunnelling through rock; rockhopper (penguin) a small penguin, Eudyptes crestatus, found in the Falkland Islands, New Zealand, and Tristan de Cunha and having a crest of feathers on the forehead; rock hound N. Amer. colloq. a geologist; an amateur mineralogist; rock-hounding N. Amer. colloq. the hobby or activity of an amateur mineralogist; rock-house (a) a house built of stone or quarried rock; (b) a shady place under overhanging rocks providing a habitat for ferns; rock hyrax a hyrax of the genus Procavia, which inhabits rock outcrops; rock jock [JOCK noun5] slang a mountaineer; rock kangaroo (a) = rock wallaby below; (b) = WALLAROO; rock lizard any of various small climbing lizards living in mountains and arid rocky habitats; rock lobster = SPINY lobster; rockman (a) Scot. a person who captures birds on rocks or cliffs; (b) a quarryman who gets out slate from a slate quarry; rock maple US (the wood of) the sugar maple, Acer saccharum; rock martin a martin, Ptyonoprogne fuligula, found in many parts of Africa; rock mechanics the branch of science and engineering that deals with the mechanical properties and behaviour of rock; rock melon = CANTALOUP; rock oak N. Amer. the chestnut oak Quercus prinus; rock-oil petroleum, crude oil; rock ouzel the ring ouzel; rock pebbler Austral. the regent parrot, Polytelis anthopeplus; rock phosphate a sedimentary rock rich in phosphates; phosphorite; rock-pigeon: see sense 5 above; rock pile US slang a prison; rock pipit a dark-coloured pipit, Anthus petrosus, of rocky shores of NW Europe; rock pitch Mountaineering an expanse of rock between belays; rock-plant a plant that grows on or among rocks; rock python any of several large snakes of the family Boidae, esp. the African Python sebae; rock rabbit (a) = rock hyrax above; (b) = PIKA; rock-ribbed adjective having ribs of rock; fig. resolute, uncompromising, esp. in political allegiance; rock rose (a) any of various chiefly yellow-flowered dwarf shrubs and herbaceous plants constituting the genera Helianthemum and Tuberaria (family Cistaceae), esp. H. nummularium, a frequent plant of calcareous grassland; occas., a cistus; (b) N. Amer. the bitter-root, Lewisia rediviva; (c) an aggregate of tabular crystals of a mineral suggestive of the petals of a rose; rock-salmon (a) the saithe; (b) US = amberjack s.v. AMBER adjective; (c) a catfish (genus Anarhichas) or dogfish (genus Scyliorhinus) as sold for Food; rock-salt common salt occurring naturally in bulk; rock samphire: see SAMPHIRE 1; Rock-SCORP; Rock scorpion: see SCORPION 6. rock skipper a small marine fish of the blenny family, Blenniidae, which can survive out of water for a limited time; rock-slide a slippage of rock; a mass of rock fragments that has subsided; rock sparrow any of several brownish-grey Old World sparrows of the genus Petronia which frequent rocky country; rock-stone stone obtained by quarrying or cutting from the rock; (now chiefly W. Indies) a stone, a pebble; rock stream = rock glacier above; rock thrush any of various thrushes of the genus Monticola, esp. M. saxatilis of parts of southern Europe and Asia; rock tripe any of several edible lichens of the genus Umbilicaria; rock wallaby a wallaby of the genus Petrogale, frequenting rocky ground; rock warbler a small songbird, Origma solitaria (family Acanthizidae), of rocky habitats in New South Wales, Australia; rock waste fragments of rock produced by weathering; rock-water spring water coming from a rock; rock-weed any of various seaweeds growing on tide-washed rocks; rock whiting (a) a fish of the Australasian family Odacidae, resembling a wrasse; (b) = STRANGER noun 9b; rock wool = mineral wool s.v. MINERAL adjective; rock-work (a) a natural mass of rocks or stones; (b) stones piled together in a rockery; rough stonework resembling or imitating natural rocks; rock worm a marine polychaete worm of the family Eunicidae; rock wren (a) a wren, Salpinctes obsoletus, found in western N. America and in Central America; (b) a New Zealand wren, Xenicus gilviventris (family Xenicidae).
rockless adjective M17.
rocklet noun a small rock M19.
rocklike adjective resembling a rock; possessing the qualities of rock; hard or firm as rock (lit. & fig.): L16.

Braasch, William (medicine)


Braasch, William
<person> U.S. Urologist, 1878-1975.

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