Definition of rod

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Rod (n.) An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement..

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Fertility :: Fertility (n.) The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination..
Canker :: Canker (n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma..
Drabble :: Drabble (v. i.) To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels..
Rhabdom :: Rhabdom (n.) One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulae in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See Illust. under Ommatidium..
Assimilatory :: Assimilatory (a.) Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs..
Stimulant :: Stimulant (a.) Produced increased vital action in the organism, or in any of its parts..
Rodent :: Rodent (v. t.) Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
Prodigate :: Prodigate (v. t.) To squander.
Irritant :: Irritant (n.) Any agent by which irritation is produced; as, a chemical irritant; a mechanical or electrical irritant..
Spore :: Spore (n.) A minute grain or germ; a small, round or ovoid body, formed in certain organisms, and by germination giving rise to a new organism; as, the reproductive spores of bacteria, etc..
Organic :: Organic (a.) Produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure..
Apophasis :: Apophasis (n.) A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Caesar, iii. 2.].
Introductor :: Introductor (n.) An introducer.
Antiguggler :: Antiguggler (n.) A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise..
Cube :: Cube (n.) The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4..
Faucal :: Faucal (a.) Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages..
Wale :: Wale (n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
Birch :: Birch (v. t.) To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.
Statocracy :: Statoblast (n.) One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; -- also called winter buds..
Pricking :: Pricking (n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
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