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a
abroad
acrothymion
adventure
air
almadie
aneurism
angel-fish
angusticlave
ansers
armadillo
artichoke
ascent
autocratrix
ax
baboon
backed
bad
badness
bait
baited
banana
band
banish
barque
base
basin
bat
batten
bay
bayonet
beating
belated
bend
bending
best
bewilder
bier-balk
birdbolt
blade
blazoned
blazoning
block
bow
brad
breasted
brim
broad
broad-ax
broad-backed
broad-blown
broad-breasted
broad-brimmed
broad-cast
broad-cloth
broad-eyed
broad-fronted
broad-horned
broad-leafed
broad-leaved
broad-piece
broad-seal
broad-shouldered
broad-side
broad-spreading
broad-sword
broad-tailed
broad-wise
broaden
broadish
broadly
broadness
bruit
bull-head
butter-tooth
calabash-tree
camelopard
capacious
cast
catacomb
causey
chain
character
chest
chop
church-way
circuitous
circumference
clap
clear
closely
coffer
come
commodore
communication
confinement
cord
court
covert-way
cross
cross-road
cross-stone
cross-way
crucian
culvert
cutlas
damage
deambulation
delay
destruction
detention
deter
determine
difficult
digress
direct
disaster
discous
dish
display
do
dock
door
drove
dry
dryness
easy
edge
elbow
elk
emission
expose
extend
exterraneous
fairy
fether
financially
finned
flap
flapeared
flapped
flapping
flat
flutter
flyboat
footing
footpace
forage
foraging
forfeit
fork
fossroad
foul
frequent
from
front
full-faced
gad
galanga
glader
glave
go
gondola
great
griddle
guess
guide
guidepost
hang
hanger
harpoon
head
heavy
helmet
highway
highwayman
hollow
home
horseway
hour
hoy
i
impassable
impediment
impose
impracticable
improvement
incline
inconveniency
incursion
index
indifferent
injure
inoffensive
inquire
inroad
interrupt
irruption
jar
justle
keep
kyanite
lamina
lane
lateral
laticlave
latirostrous
latitude
lay
league
level
lie
list
long
lot
measure
meet
mend
milky-way
miry
miss
mole
moose
muddy
multivious
nail
narrow
narrowing
neither
noise
nose-fish
oblige
oblong
oblongness
observance
obstacle
obstruct
omoplate
on
open
orpheus
out
oval
overdo
pad
paddle
paddle-staff
palm
pan
pass
passable
passage
path
pattee
pawed
peel
peer
pendant
pickax
pioneer
plain
plank
plate
platform
platter-faced
pot
practicable
practice
province
public
punch
quest
quintin
ramble
ramp
reach
read
relay
repair
reverently
rhomboid
ride
riding
road
roader
roadstead
roadster
roadway
rob
roller
rough
rout
rudder
rugged
ruggedness
ruttier
sabre
sail-board
salebrosity
sandiness
sandy
scarp
scatter
scraper
scrip
scupper-nail
scuttle
serpentine
serpentize
servant
serviceable
shag
share
sheet
sheet-copper
sheet-iron
sheild
shorten
shoulder-blade
shovel
side
slap
slice
sliced
slicing
so
spade
specter
spread
spred
spring
spurway
squat
squill
stage
stake
stamp
star-paved
stole
stop
strait
stray
street
sulcated
sweep
sword-bearer
tabernacle
tabling
talc
tenuity
term
testudo
thereat
thievish
toll-house
torrid
touch
township
track
trailing
train-road
trumpeted
tunnel
turbinated
turn
turnpike
turnpike-road
unbroke
uneasiness
uneven
unevenness
unpassable
vail
van-couriers
wair
walk
wampum
wander
wanty
wariness
wash-board
way
way-warden
way-wiser
wayless
weakness
wedge-shaped
wheeling
whichever
whichsoever
white-line
wide
wild
willow
winding
worral
zedoary
zodiac



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1828 Definition

ROAD, n. [L. gradior. See Grade.]

1. An open way or public passage; ground appropriated for travel, forming a communication between one city, town or place and another. The word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic term it includes highway, street and lane. The military roads of the Romans were paved with stone, or formed of gravel or pebbles, and some of them remain to this day entire.

2. A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; sometimes called roadstead, that is, a place for riding, meaning at anchor.

3. A journey. [Not used, but we still use ride as a noun; as a long ride; a short ride; the same word differently written.]

4. An inroad; incursion of an enemy. [Not in use.]

On the road, passing; traveling.
1913 Definition
Road (road)
n.(?)
Road
[AS. r1913 webster dictionaryd a riding, that on which one rides or travels, a road, fr. r***imacr]dan to ride. See Ride, and cf. Raid.]
  1. A journey, or stage of a journey.
    [Obs.]

    With easy roads he came to Leicester. Shak.

  2. An inroad; an invasion; a raid.
    [Obs.] Spenser.
  3. 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.

    The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.

    * The word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic term it includes highway, street, and lane.

  4. A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.
    Shak.

    Now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners,
    For we be come unto a quiet rode [road].
    Spenser.

    On, or Upon, the road, traveling or passing over a road; coming or going; on the way.

    My hat and wig will soon be here,
    They are upon the road.
    Cowper.

    -- Road agent, a highwayman, especially on the stage routes of the unsettled western parts of the United States; -- a humorous euphemism. [Western U.S.]

    The highway robber -- road agent he is quaintly called. The century.

    -- Road book, a guidebook in respect to roads and distances. -- Road metal, the broken, stone used in macadamizing roads. -- Road roller, a heavy roller, or combinations of rollers, for making earth, macadam, or concrete roads smooth and compact. -- often driven by steam. -- Road runner (Zoöl.), the chaparral cock. -- Road steamer, a locomotive engine adapted to running on common roads. -- To go on the road, to engage in the business of a commercial traveler. [Colloq.] -- To take the road, to begin or engage in traveling. -- To take to the road, to engage in robbery upon the highways.

    Syn. -- Way; highway; street; lane; pathway; route; passage; course. See Way.


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