rock : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a musical style that emerged in the 1960s; rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience
  acid rock.
  

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• noun rock-inhabiting fern of northern North America growing in massive tufts and having fronds resembling parsley
  Cryptogramma acrostichoides; American parsley fern.
  

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• (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; called also sedimentary rocks.

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• noun a sedimentary rock composed of sand
  

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• noun a sedimentary rock formed from clay deposits
  

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• noun a style of rock music that emerged in the 1970s; associated with attempts to combine rock with jazz and other forms; intended for listening and not dancing
  art rock.
  

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• a limestone found impregnated with asphalt.

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Bed" rock"

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1. (Mining) The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig.

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• noun a desert in northwestern Nevada
  

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• (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material.

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• noun (geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks
  

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• noun bird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola
  Rupicola peruviana.
  
• noun tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest
  Rupicola rupicola.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a South American bird (Rupicola aurantia) having a beautiful crest.

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• noun rock fragments and pebbles
  gravel.
  

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• (Geol.), volcanic rocks, in distinction from so-called intrusive, or plutonic, rocks.

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• noun a mixture of emery dust and a binder; can be molded into grindstones
  emery stone.
  

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• (Mining), the Millstone grit; so called because no coal is found worth working below this stratum. It is used for hearths of furnaces, having power to resist intense heat.

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• a siliceous slate; basanite is here included. See Basanite.

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• rocks whose surfaces have been smoothed, furrowed, or striated, by the action of ice.

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• noun stems in clumps with cream-colored flowers; found from Washington to Wyoming and southward to California and Utah
  Penstemon deustus.
  

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• noun rock formed by the solidification of molten magma
  

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• (Geol.), rocks which have been forced, while in a plastic or melted state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks. The term is sometimes used as equivalent to plutonic rocks. It is then contrasted with effusive or volcanic rocks.

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• noun United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)
  Rock.
  

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• noun the state capital and largest city of Arkansas in the central part of Arkansas on the Arkansas River
  capital of Arkansas.
  

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• noun usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States
  Ariocarpus fissuratus.
  
• noun highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa
  stone mimicry plant; living granite.
  

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• rock in its native or original state or location; rock not quarried. " I now found myself on a rude and narrow stairway, the steps of which were cut of the living rock." Moore.

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Long"mynd rocks"

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1. (Geol.) The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and states of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire.

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• (Geol.), a compact crystalline rock not distinctly schistone, as granite; also, with some authors, an eruptive rock.

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• noun rock altered by pressure and heat
  

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• noun large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth
  plutonic rock; batholite; pluton; batholith.
  

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• noun large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth
  plutonic rock; batholite; pluton; batholith.
  

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• (Geol.), granite, porphyry, and some other igneous rocks, supposed to have consolidated from a melted state at a great depth from the surface. Cf. Intrusive rocks, under Intrusive.

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• noun a boulder in Plymouth supposed to be where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower
  
• noun an American breed of domestic fowl
  

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• noun any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals
  porphyry.
  

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• (Geol.), a term early used for rocks supposed to have been first formed, being crystalline and containing no organic remains, as granite, gneiss, etc.; called also primitive rocks. The terms Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary rocks have also been used in like manner, but of these the last two only are now in use.

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• (Geol.), primary rocks. See under Primary.

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• noun a style of rock music that emerged in the 1970s; associated with attempts to combine rock with jazz and other forms; intended for listening and not dancing
  art rock.
  

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• noun a musical style that emerged in the 1960s; rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience
  acid rock.
  

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• noun rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock
  punk.
  

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• noun very short shallowly creeping North American fern usually growing on cliffs or walls and having dark glossy leaf axes
  Pellaea atropurpurea.
  

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• noun a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
  rock 'n' roll; rock and roll; rock music; rock; rock'n'roll.
  
  • rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll.

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• noun a performer or composer or fan of rock music
  rocker.
  

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• . Probably so called by confusion with F. roche a rock. Same as Roche alum.

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• noun a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
  rock 'n' roll; rock and roll; rock music; rock; rock'n'roll.
  
  • rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll.

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• noun a band of musicians who play rock'n'roll music
  rock band.
  

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• noun barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones
  acorn barnacle; Balanus balanoides.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a barnacle (Balanus balanoides) very abundant on rocks washed by tides.

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• noun a kind of sea bass
  rock bass; Centropristis philadelphica.
  
• noun game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes
  rock bass; Ambloplites rupestris.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The stripped bass . See under Bass. (b) The goggle-eye. (c) The cabrilla. Other species are also locally called rock bass.

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• noun gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil
  Holocanthus tricolor.
  

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• noun a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers
  roller bit.
  

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• noun the absolute bottom
  

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• noun any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions
  cliff brake; cliff-brake.
  
• noun dwarf deciduous lithophytic ferns
  
• noun chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia
  American wall fern; rock brake; Polypodium virgianum.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any species of animal whose remains contribute to the formation of rocks, especially the corals and Foraminifera.

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• (Min.), native alum mixed with clay and oxide of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white color, occuring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous slate.

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• noun a small cake with a hard surface said to resemble a rock
  

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• noun hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
  rock.
  
• noun sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string
  

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• a form of candy consisting of crystals of pure sugar which are very hard, whence the name.

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• . (Zoöl.) See Moco.

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• noun a climber of vertical rock faces
  cragsman.
  

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• noun the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment)
  

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• (Zoöl.) (a) A small, often reddish or brown, variety of the cod found about rocks andledges . (b) A California rockfish.

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• noun a performance of rock music
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) A European wrasse (Centrolabrus exoletus) . (b) A rockling.

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• (Min.), a variety of asbestus the fibers of which are loosely interlaced. It resembles cork in its texture.

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• noun small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl
  

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• noun flesh of a small fowl bred for roasting
  

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• noun crab of eastern coast of North America
  Cancer irroratus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large crabs of the genus Cancer, as the two species of the New England coast (C. irroratus and C. borealis). See Illust. under Cancer.

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• noun any of several rock-loving cresses of the genus Arabis
  rockcress.
  

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• (Bot.), a name of several plants of the cress kind found on rocks, as Arabis petræa, A. lyrata, etc.

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• noun a clear quartz used in making electronic and optical equipment
  transparent quartz.
  

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• (Min.), limpid quartz. See Quartz, and under Crystal.

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• noun pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended
  Columba livia; rock dove.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the rock pigeon; called also rock doo.

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• noun a drill for penetrating rock
  stone drill; borer; bore bit.
  

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• an implement for drilling holes in rock; esp., a machine impelled by steam or compressed air, for drilling holes for blasting, etc.

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• (Zoöl.), the harlequin duck.

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• . (Zoöl.) See Gunnel.

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• noun tall widely distributed elm of eastern North America
  Ulmus thomasii.
  
• noun large ornamental tree with graceful gradually spreading branches common in eastern North America
  Ulmus americana; American elm; water elm; white elm.
  

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• noun infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache
  brucellosis; Malta fever; Gibraltar fever; Mediterranean fever; undulant fever.
  

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• noun a garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants
  rockery.
  

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• noun plant with basal leaves mottled with white and flowers in lax panicles on erect stems
  Heuchera americana.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a wild goat, or ibex.

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• noun a band of musicians who play rock'n'roll music
  rock band.
  

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• noun slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
  Pholis gunnellus; butterfish.
  

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• noun glaucous herb of northeastern United States and Canada having loose racemes of yellow-tipped pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Fumaria
  Fumaria sempervirens; Corydalis sempervirens; Roman wormwood.
  

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• noun found around rocky coasts or on reefs
  Epinephelus adscensionis.
  

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• noun small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand
  crested penguin.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a penguin of the genus Catarractes. See under Penguin.

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• noun hyrax that lives in rocky areas
  rock hyrax; Procavia capensis.
  

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• noun a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the American Civil War
  

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• noun slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas
  rock kangaroo.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Kangaroo, and Petrogale.

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• noun warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
  spiny lobster; crayfish; langouste.
  
• noun large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
  crawfish; sea crawfish; langouste; spiny lobster; crayfish.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large spinose lobsters of the genera Panulirus and Palinurus. They have no large claws. Called also spiny lobster, and sea crayfish.

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• noun maple of eastern and central North America having three-lobed to five-lobed leaves and hard close-grained wood much used for cabinet work especially the curly-grained form; sap is chief source of maple syrup and maple sugar; many subspecies
  sugar maple; Acer saccharum.
  

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• (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite occuring as an efflorescence.

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• . (Min.) See Agaric mineral, under Agaric.

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• a kind of lichen; the cudbear. See Cudbear.

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• noun a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
  rock 'n' roll; rock and roll; rock music; rock; rock'n'roll.
  
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• noun location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules
  Calpe; Gibraltar.
  

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• noun a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
  crude oil; oil; fossil oil; petroleum; crude.
  

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• . See Petroleum.

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• noun albums of rock music that aspired to the status of art; first appeared in the 1960s
  

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• noun the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land
  outcrop; outcropping.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small Australian parrakeet (Euphema petrophila), which nests in holes among the rocks of high cliffs. Its general color is yellowish olive green; a frontal band and the outer edge of the wing quills are deep blue, and the central tail feathers bluish green.

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• noun of mountainous areas of southern Europe
  Alectoris graeca; Greek partridge.
  

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• noun one of the West's most beautiful wildflowers; large brilliant pink or rose flowers in many racemes above thick mats of stems and leaves; ledges and cliffs from Washington to California
  Penstemon rupicola; cliff penstemon.
  

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• noun pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended
  Columba livia; rock dove.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the wild pigeon (Columba livia) Of Europe and Asia, from which the domestic pigeon was derived. See Illust. under Pigeon.

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• noun pink-flowered perennial of rocky regions of western United States
  Talinum calycinum.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See the Note under Pipit.

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• noun plant that grows on or among rocks or is suitable for a rock garden
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The black-bellied, or whistling, plover . (b) The rock snipe.

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• noun chiefly lithophytic or epiphytic fern of North America and east Asia
  American wall fern; rock brake; Polypodium virgianum.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an arctic American ptarmigan (Lagopus rupestris), which in winter is white, with the tail and lores black. In summer the males are grayish brown, coarsely vermiculated with black, and have black patches on the back.

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• noun a plant of the genus Calandrinia
  

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• noun very large python of tropical and southern Africa
  Python sebae; rock python.
  

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• noun hyrax that lives in rocky areas
  rock hyrax; Procavia capensis.
  
• noun small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
  mouse hare; cony; pika; coney.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the hyrax. See Cony, and Daman.

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• noun mountain rock dweller of Mexico and most southern parts of United States southwest
  Crotalus lepidus.
  

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• noun any of numerous varieties of helianthemums having small rose-like yellow or white or reddish flowers
  rockrose.
  
• noun small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage
  rockrose.
  

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• (Min.), a fine reddish variety of garnet.

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• noun any of several coarse fishes (such as dogfish or wolffish) when used as food
  

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• noun naturally occurring crystalline sodium chloride
  halite.
  

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• (Min.), cloride of sodium (common salt) occuring in rocklike masses in mines; mineral salt; salt dug from the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation from sea water in large basins or cavities.

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• noun low perennial tufted plant of southeastern North America
  Arenaria stricta.
  

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• noun a kind of sea bass
  rock bass; Centropristis philadelphica.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the harbor seal. See Seal.

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Rock" shaft`

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1. (Mach.) A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.

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• (Zoöl.), any species of Murex, Purpura, and allied genera.

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• noun very large python of tropical and southern Africa
  Python sebae; rock python.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several large pythons; as, the royal rock snake (Python regia) of Africa, and the rock snake of India (P. molurus). The Australian rock snakes mostly belong to the allied genus Morelia.

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• (Zoöl.), the purple sandpiper (Tringa maritima); called also rock bird, rock plover, winter snipe.

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• (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy feel, and adhering to the tongue.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World sparrows of the genus Petronia, as P. stulla, of Europe. (b) A North American sparrow (Pucæa ruficeps).

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• noun tufted spikemoss forming loose spreading mats; eastern North America
  Selaginella rupestris; dwarf lycopod.
  

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• noun a town of southwest Wyoming near the Utah border
  

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• noun large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States
  Citellus variegatus.
  

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Rock" staff`

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

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• noun a famous singer of rock music
  

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• noun game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes
  rock bass; Ambloplites rupestris.
  

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• petroleum.

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• (Zoöl.), any Old World thrush of the genus Monticola, or Petrocossyphus; as, the European rock thrush (M. saxatilis), and the blue rock thrush of India (M. cyaneus), in which the male is blue throughout.

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• (Bot.), a kind of lichen (Umbilicaria Dillenii) growing on rocks in the northen parts of America, and forming broad, flat, coriaceous, dark fuscous or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases of extremity.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Hexagrammus, family Chiradæ, native of the North Pacific coasts; called also sea trout, boregat, bodieron, and starling.

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• noun slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas
  rock kangaroo.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small Australian singing bird (Origma rubricata) which frequents rocky ravines and water courses; called also cataract bird.

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• noun a light fibrous material used as an insulator
  mineral wool.
  

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• noun short-tailed bird resembling a wren
  Xenicus gilviventris.
  
• noun wren inhabiting badlands and mesa country of western United States and Mexico
  Salpinctes obsoletus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wrens of the genus Salpinctes, native of the arid plains of Lower California and Mexico.

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• noun a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
  rock 'n' roll; rock and roll; rock music; rock; rock'n'roll.
  
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• adjective satellite well below normal (especially in price)
  reduced.
  

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• adjective satellite of ferns and lichens that grow on rocks
  

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• adjective satellite of plants that flourish in a rocky environment
  

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• adjective satellite abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps
  rockbound.
  
  • the rock-ribbed coast of Maine
• adjective satellite tradition-bound and obstinately opinionated
  die-hard.
  
  • an inflexible (or die-hard) conservative
  • rock-ribbed republican

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• adjective satellite consistent in performance or behavior
  dependable; steady-going.
  
  • dependable in one's habits
  • a steady-going family man

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• noun a chair mounted on rockers
  rocker.
  

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• noun a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride
  hobby; hobbyhorse.
  

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Rock"ing-chair` noun

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1. A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.

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Rock"ing-horse` noun

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1. The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.

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Rock"ing-stone` noun

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1. A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force.

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• noun a sedimentary rock formed of coarse-grained material
  

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• (Geol.), the New Red Sandstone system of some geologists; so called because, in Europe, this formation contains beds of salt. The saliferous beds of New York State belong largely to the Salina period of the Upper Silurian. See the Chart of Geology.

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• a rock made of cemented sand.

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• (Geol.), those lying between the Primary, or Paleozoic, and Tertiary (see Primary rocks, under Primary); later restricted to strata of the Mesozoic age, and at but little used.

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• noun rock formed from consolidated clay sediments
  sedimentary rock.
  

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• noun rock formed from consolidated clay sediments
  sedimentary rock.
  

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• . (Geol.) See Aqueous rocks, under Aqueous.

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• (Min.), rocks which split into thin laminæ, not necessarily parallel to the stratification; foliated rocks.

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• noun a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments
  soapstone; steatite; soaprock.
  

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• to err fatally; to have the hopes and designs frustrated.

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• (Geol.), a term formerly applied to the lowest uncrystalline stratified rocks (graywacke) supposed to contain no fossils, and so called because thought to have been formed when the earth was passing from an uninhabitable to a habitable state.

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• noun extrusive igneous rock solidified near or on the surface of the Earth
  volcanic rock.
  

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• noun extrusive igneous rock solidified near or on the surface of the Earth
  volcanic rock.
  

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• rocks which have been produced from the discharges of volcanic matter, as the various kinds of basalt, trachyte, scoria, obsidian, etc., whether compact, scoriaceous, or vitreous.

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• noun a rock immediately adjacent to a vein or fault
  

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• granular limestone used in building walls. U. S. Bartlett.

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• a porous rock from which water gradually issues.

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• noun whiskey with ice
  whiskey on the rocks.
  

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• noun whiskey with ice
  whiskey on the rocks.
  

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