roosing, rosin, rousing, n., IV, 378, 1; 379, 1; 383, 1; V, [275], 1: praising, boasting, bragging.
root, I, 304, F 5: the end of a rafter, resting on a wall. ring of an auld tree-root, I, 304, F 4: hoops are sometimes made of tree-roots, which are very tough; the point here is the size of the fingers which such a ring would fit.
root of his sword, III, 268, 11: a blunder; see note, III, 275.
rose-garlonde, III, 75, 398: a “garland” appears to have been attached to the yerdes (397), and every shot outside of the garland was accounted a failure. The garland as the limit of allowable shots is mentioned at 93, 31. This must have been an extemporized ring of twigs in the latter case, and was so, perhaps, in the other, for it is likely that the term would become conventional, and mean, as Mr C. J. Longman suggests, nothing more than a disk with circular rings, such as survive to this day in archery targets.
rosin, V, [275], 11: boasting. See roosing.
rosses, roses.
rottens, rottons, I, 466, 8; V, [124], 6: rats.
roudes, II, 284, 4: haggard (subst., an old wrinkled woman).
roun, rown, round, III, 199, 28; 356, 19: whisper.
rounin(g), n., V, [256], 10: whispering.