To fly straight up rapidly when flushed, as a pheasant.

noun. A portion.

noun. Same as water-rocket, 3.

noun. An obsolete or dialectal form of rochet.

noun. A cylindrical tube of pasteboard or metal filled with a mixture of niter, sulphur, charcoal, etc., which, on being ignited at the base, propels the tube forward by the impact of the liberated gases against the atmosphere.

noun. The lever by which a forge-bellows is inflated.

noun. In old usage, the salad-plant Eruca sativa. See Eruca.

noun. In modern usage, a plant of the genus Hesperis, chiefly H. matronalis, also called dame's-violet or -rocket, garden-rocket, or white rocket.

noun. One of various other plants, chiefly Cruciferæ. See phrases.

intransitive verb. To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.

noun. An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.

noun. A blunt lance head used in the joust.

noun. any flying device propelled by the reactive force of hot gases expelled in the direction opposite its motion. The fuel used to generate the expelled gases in rockets may be solid or liquid; rockets propelled by liquid fuels typically have a combustible fuel (such as hydrogen or kerosene) which is combined inside the rocket engine with an oxidizer, such as liquid oxygen. Single liquid fuels (called monopropellants) are also known. Since rocket engines do not depend on a surrounding fluid medium to generate their thrust, as do airplanes with propellers or jet engines, they may be used for propulsion in the vacuum of space.

noun. a powerful form of rocket for use in war, invented by Sir William Congreve. It may be used either in the field or for bombardment; in the former case, it is armed with shells or case shot; in the latter, with a combustible material inclosed in a metallic case, which is inextinguishable when kindled, and scatters its fire on every side.

noun. A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.

noun. Damewort.

noun. Rocket larkspur. See below.

noun. See Dyer's broom, under Broom.

noun. an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes (Delphinium Ajacis).

noun. either of two fleshy cruciferous plants (Cakile maritima and Cakile Americana) found on the seashore of Europe and America.

noun. a common cruciferous weed with yellow flowers (Barbarea vulgaris).

noun. The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa.

noun. A rocket engine.

noun. A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine.

noun. A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.

noun. A rocket propelled firework, a skyrocket

noun. An ace (the playing card).

noun. An angry communication (such as a letter or telegram) to a subordinate.

verb. To accelerate swiftly and powerfully

verb. To fly vertically

verb. To rise or soar rapidly

verb. To carry something in a rocket

verb. To attack something with rockets

verb. shoot up abruptly, like a rocket

verb. propel with a rocket

noun. erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender

noun. sends a firework display high into the sky

noun. a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion

noun. any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine

noun. propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon

"The TAURUS rocket is scrap -- in rocket science, a 66% success rate sucks by any performance measure."

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