e she met Lord Sensitive.--Cumberland, _First Love_ (1796).

=Ross= (_Lord_), an officer in the king's army, under the duke of
Monmouth.--Sir W. Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.).

_Ross_ (_The Man of_), John Kyrle, of Whitehouse, in Gloucestershire. So
called because he resided in the village of Ross, Herefordshire. Kyrle
was a man of unbounded benevolence, and beloved by all who knew him.

[Asterism] Pope celebrates him in his _Moral Essays_, iii. (1709).

=Rosse= (2 _syl._), the sword which the dwarf Elberich gave to Otwit, king
of Lombardy. It was so keen that it left no gap where it cut.

Balmung, the sword forged by Wieland, and given to Siegfried, was so
keen that it clove Amilias in two without his knowing it, but when he
attempted to move he fell asunder.

This sword to thee I give; it is all bright of hue,
Whatever it may cleave, no gap will there ensue.
From Almari I brought it, and Ross[^e] is its name.

_The Heldenbuch._

=Rostocostojambedanesse= (_M. N._), author of _After Beef,
Mustard_.--Rabelais, Pantagruel, ii. 7 (1533).

=Rothmar=, chief of Tromlo. He attacked the vassal kingdom of Croma, while
the under-king, Crothar, was blind with age, resolving to annex it to
his own dominion. Crothar's son, Fovar-Gormo, attacked the invader, but
was defeated and slain. Not many days after, Ossian (one of the sons of
Fingal) arrived with succors, renewed the battle, defeated the
victorious army, and slew the invader.--Ossian, _Croma_.

=Rothsay= (_The duke of_) prince Robert, eldest son of Robert III. of
Scotland.

_Margaret, duchess of Rothsay._--Sir W. Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_
(time, Henry IV.).

=Rou= (_Le Roman de_), a metrical and mythical history, in Norman-French,
of the dukes of Normandy, from Rollo downwards, by Robert Wace (author
of _Le Brut_).

[Asterism] Rou', that is, _Roul_, the same as Rollo.

=Roubign['e]= (_Julie de_), the heroine and title of a novel by Henry
Mackenzie (1783).

=Rougedragon= (_Lady Rachel_), the former guardian of Lilias
Redgauntlet.--Sir W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time, George III.).

=Rouncewell= (_Mrs._), housekeeper at Chesney Wold to Lord and Lady
Dedlock, to whom she is most faithfully attached.--C. Dickens, _Bleak
House_ (1823).

=Round Table= (_The_), a table made at Carduel, by Merlin, for Uther, the
pendragon. Uther gave it to King Leodegraunce, of Camelyard, and when
Arthur married Guinever (the daught