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- English Word Rocket Definition Rocket larkspur. See below.
- English Word Rocket Definition An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.
- English Word Rocket Definition A blunt lance head used in the joust.
- English Word Rocket Definition To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.
- English Word Rocketed Definition of Rocket
- English Word Rocketer Definition A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.
- English Word Rocketing Definition of Rocket
- English Word Rockfish Definition Any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa.
- English Word Rockfish Definition The striped bass. See Bass.
- English Word Rockfish Definition Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.
- English Word Rockfish Definition An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.
- English Word Rockiness Definition The state or quality of being rocky.
- English Word Rocking Definition Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking.
- English Word Rocking Definition of Rock
- English Word Rocking-chair Definition A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.
- English Word Rocking-horse Definition The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.
- English Word Rocking-stone Definition 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.
- English Word Rocklay Definition See Rokelay.
- English Word Rockless Definition Being without rocks.
- English Word Rockling Definition Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels.