Category:Road

==In other languages, the word for "road" is: == Chamorro: chalan

Road, n. Etym: [as. rad a riding, that on which one rides or travels, A road, fr. ridan to ride. See ride, and cf. Raid.]

1. A journey, or stage of a journey. [obs.] With easy roads he came to leicester. Shak.

2. An inroad; an invasion; a raid. [obs.] Spenser.

3. A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for Vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means Of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the london road. Shak.

Note: the word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic Term it includes highway, street, and lane.

4. Etym: [possibly akin to icel. reithi the rigging of a ship, e. Ready.]

Defn: a place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from The shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, hampton roads. Shak.

Now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners, for we be come unto a quiet Rode [road]. Spenser. On, or upon, the road, traveling or passing over a road; coming or Going; on the way. My hat and wig will soon be here, they are upon the road. Cowper. -- road agent, a highwayman, especially on the stage routes of the Unsettled western parts of the united states; -- a humorous Euphemism. [western u.s.] The highway robber -- road agent he is quaintly called. The century. -- road book, a quidebook in respect to roads and distances. -- road metal, the broken, stone used in macadamizing roads. -- road roller, a heavy roller, or combinations of rollers, for Making earth, macadam, or concrete roads smooth and compact. -- often driven by steam. -- road runner (zoöl.), the chaparral cock. -- road steamer, a locomotive engine adapted to running on common Roads. -- to go on the road, to engage in the business of a commercial Traveler. [colloq.] -- to take the road, to begin or engage in Traveling. -- to take to the road, to engage in robbery upon the highways.

Syn. -- way; highway; street; lane; pathway; route; passage; course. See Way.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Road - (1 Samuel 27:10; R.V., "raid"), an inroad, an incursion. This word is never used in Scripture in the sense of a way or path.