(n.) A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.
(n.) A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.
(n.) The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two-color method originally described by Van Rood et al.
(2) Rood (1980) stated that many people want a "womb with a view," so that they remain protected and yet passively observe the outside world.
(3) (R. G. Duggleby, H. Kinns and J. I. Rood, A computer program for determining the size of DNA restriction fragments.
(4) The current study expands exploratory findings of S. W. Brown with Rood in 1982 and Yakimowski in 1987, using confirmatory factor analytical procedures.
(5) Children are welcome to ring the bell held by the medieval figure of Jack-smite-the-clock while you inspect the damage wrought by the Suffolk-born iconoclast William "Basher" Dowsing during the civil war: he scrubbed the faces from all the finely painted apostles and saints on the rood screen.
(6) The catQ gene contained internal HindII, HaeIII, and DraI restriction sites and was distinct from the catP gene, which was originally cloned (L. J. Abraham, A. J. Wales, and J. I. Rood Plasmid 14:37-46, 1985) from the conjugative C. perfringens R plasmid, pIP401.
(7) Although references to Saint Apollonia are common on the Continent, references to the saint are extremely rare in Britain--with the exception of representations in rood screens or elsewhere in churches.