Definition of rood

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Rood (n.) A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.

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Aerie :: Aerie (n.) The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest..
Brood :: Brood (v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes..
Shrood :: Shrood (v. t.) To trim; to lop.
Eye :: Eye (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants..
Jube :: Jube (n.) chancel screen or rood screen.
Brooded :: Brooded (imp. & p. p.) of Broo.
Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
Arpen :: Arpen (n.) Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English..
Subjective :: Subjective (a.) Especially, pertaining to, or derived from, one's own consciousness, in distinction from external observation; ralating to the mind, or intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states..
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Melancholia :: Melancholia (n.) A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas..
Winter-ground :: Winter-ground (v. t.) To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant..
Brood :: Brood (a.) Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
Morose :: Morose (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To cherish with care.
Covey :: Covey (n.) A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges..
Sinistrin :: Sinistrin (n.) A mucilaginous carbohydrate, resembling achroodextrin, extracted from squill as a colorless amorphous substance; -- so called because it is levorotatory..
Cove :: Cove (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs..
Croodle :: Croodle (v. i.) To fawn or coax.
Rood :: Rood (n.) The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods..
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