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Rock
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) See Roc.
(2):
(n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.
(3):
(v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.
(4):
(n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
(5):
(v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.
(6):
(v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.
(7):
(v. t.) To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.
(8):
(n.) The striped bass. See under Bass.
(9):
(n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.
(10):
(n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.
(11):
(n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Rock'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/rock.html. 1828.
