Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Roving"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rove \Rove\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Roving}.] [Cf. D. rooven to rob; akin to E. reave. See
{Reave}, {Rob}.]
1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the
seas in piracy. [Obs.] --Hakluyt.
2. Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or
pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing,
walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.
For who has power to walk has power to rove.
--Arbuthnot.
3. (Archery) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle
of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being
beyond the point-blank range).
Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart At that
good knight so cunningly didst rove. --Spenser.
Syn: To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Roving \Rov"ing\, n.
1. The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted
sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine
for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.
2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly
twisted; a rove. See 2d {Rove}, 2.
{Roving frame}, {Roving machine}, a machine for drawing and
twisting roves and twisting roves and winding them on
bobbin for the spinning machine.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Roving \Rov"ing\, n.
The act of one who roves or wanders.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
roving
adj : (of groups of people) tending to travel and change
settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society";
"the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the
profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy
future"; "wandering tribes" [syn: {mobile}, {nomadic},
{peregrine}, {wandering}]
n : travelling about without any clear destination; "she
followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"
[syn: {wandering}, {vagabondage}]
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