Definition of road

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Road (n.) A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another..

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Ablegation :: Ablegation (n.) The act of sending abroad.
Spadroon :: Spadroon (n.) A sword, especially a broadsword, formerly used both to cut and thrust..
Embankment :: Embankment (n.) A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc..
Practicable :: Practicable (a.) Capable of being used; passable; as, a practicable weapon; a practicable road..
Gradient :: Gradient (a.) Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad..
Rugged :: Rugged (n.) Full of asperities on the surface; broken into sharp or irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough; as, a rugged mountain; a rugged road..
Broadside :: Broadside (n.) A volley of abuse or denunciation.
Mobcap :: Mobcap (n.) A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself..
Abut :: Abut (v. i.) To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road..
Cordon :: Cordon (n.) A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon..
Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface.
Boast :: Boast (v. t.) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel..
Belt :: Belt (n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt..
Buffer :: Buffer (n.) An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car..
Grass-grown :: Grass-grown (a.) Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road..
Plantain :: Plantain (n.) Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world..
Improvement :: Improvement (n.) The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc..
Sculpin :: Sculpin (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine cottoid fishes of the genus Cottus, or Acanthocottus, having a large head armed with sharp spines, and a broad mouth. They are generally mottled with yellow, brown, and black. Several species are found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America..
Supportful :: Supporter (n.) A broad band or truss for supporting the abdomen or some other part or organ.
Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity..
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