Rip. s. A vulgar, old, unchaste woman. Hence, most probably, the origin of Demirip.
Robin-Riddick. s. A redbreast. [Also Rabbin
Hirddick; the r and i transposed.]
Rode. s. To go to rode, means, late at night or early in the morning, to go out to shoot wild fowl which pass over head on the wing.
To Rose. v. n. To drop out from the pod, or other seed vessel, when the seeds are over-ripe.
To Rough. v. a. To roughen; to make rough.
Round-dock. s. The common mallow; malva sylvestris.
Called round-dock from the roundness of its leaves. CHAUCER has the following expression which has a good deal puzzled the glossarists:
"But canst thou playin raket to and fro, Nettle in, Docke out, now this, now that, Pandare?"
Troilus and Cressida, Book IV.
The round-dock leaves are used at this day as a supposed remedy or charm for the sting of a nettle, by being rubbed on the stung part, with the following words:—