In a septic manner; in a manner tending to promote
putrefaction.
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. Chapman. Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thread By grisly Lachesis was spun with pain, That cruel Atropos eftsoon undid. Spenser.
1. A large concreted mass of stony material; a lar...
