rood
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1. rood - Noun
2. Rood - Proper noun
Meaning
A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.
A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.
The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
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I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
Rood was in my possession the day after the appearance of Philippe Gille's book review, published by 'Le Figaro', 1881 (change of palette). I abandon earth colors from [18]82 to 1884. On Pissarro's advice I stop using emerald green (1885)
For there's no rood has not a star above it; The cordial quality of pear or plum Ascends as gladly in a single tree, As in broad orchards resonant with bees; And every atom poises for itself, And for the whole.
After Rood, printing connected with the university remained sporadic for over half a century.
CNN's sources say that Rood objected to President Donald Trump's efforts to shake down the Ukrainian government to get it to announce an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden.
“We know that people have been kind of stir-crazy while sitting in their houses,” Rood said.