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a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of Black rhythm-and-blues with White country-and-western; "rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll."

material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"

(figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable; "he was her rock during the crisis"; "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church"--Gospel According to Matthew

United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)

move back and forth or sideways; "the ship was rocking"; "the tall building swayed"; "She rocked back and forth on her feet"

cause to move back and forth; "rock the cradle"; "rock the baby"; "the wind swayed the trees gently"

a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of Black rhythm-and-blues with White country-and-western; "rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll."

material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"

cause to move back and forth; "rock the cradle"; "the wind swayed the trees gently"

See Roc.

A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.

A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.

Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.

That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.

Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.

The striped bass. See under Bass.

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.

To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.

To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.

To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.

A roc.

See Roc.

A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.

A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.

Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.

That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.

Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.

The striped bass. See under Bass.

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.

To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.

To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.

To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.

A roc.

A roc.

A large mass of stony matter, bedded in the earth or resting on it; any mineral deposit; a firm or immovable foundation; strong defence.

A distaff used in spinning.

To move backward and forward; to lull to quiet.

A large mass of stone or of stony matter; any mineral matter; a bed or mass of one mineral; the striped bass; a movement backward and forward.

To cause to move backward and forward; lull to sleep; cause to sway or reel.

To move backward and forward; to sway or reel.

Rocker.

A large mass of stone: (geol.) a natural deposit of sand, earth, or clay: that which has the firmness of a rock: (B.) defence.

To move backward and forward: to lull to sleep.

To be moved backward and forward: to totter.

Large mass of stone.

To move from side to side, or backward and forward.

To move backward and forward, as on a swinging base; sway; reel.

Any large mass of stone.

A large mass of stone bedded in the earth's crust, or resting on its surface; figuratively, defence; protection; immovability; a hard stalk of sweetmeat.

The staff or frame about which flax or wool is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.

To move backward and forward, as in a cradle, a chair, &c.; to lull; to quiet; to be moved backward and forward.

n. [French] A Large mass of stony material;— any natural deposit of stony material, whether consolidated or not, thus including sand, earth, or clay when in natural beds;— that which resembles a rock in firmness;- a solid or firm foundation;— hence, defence; fortress; strength.