Once Holmes was visited by the person with a request for help. He was in a worn suit, a shirt with shabby cuffs and an old top head on his head. Holmes refused to help him. When the man left, disappointed Watson jumped on his friend:
- Sherlock, you are a great detective. How could you refuse to help the poor man?
- My dear friend, he was not absolutely poor. It his purse there was 115 pounds and 25 pence.
- But how do you know ?
- It is elementary, Buddy. Let’s count it together.
v. (esp. As roistering adj.) Revel noisily; be uproarious. roisterer n. [latin: related to *rustic]
ROLLING
drunk predic. Adj. Swaying or staggering from drunkenness.
- stone n. Unsettled rootless person.
ROLLMOP
n. Rolled uncooked pickled herring fillet. [german rollmops]
ROLLTOP
desk n. Desk with a flexible cover sliding in curved grooves.
ROMANCE
—n. - idealized, poetic, or unworldly atmosphere or tendency.
- a love affair. B mutual attraction in this. C sentimental or idealized love.
- a literary genre concerning romantic love, stirring action, etc. B work of this genre.
- medieval, esp. Verse, tale of chivalry, common in the romance languages.
- a exaggeration, lies. B instance of this.
- (romance) (often attrib.) Languages descended from latin.
- mus. Short informal piece. —v. (-cing) 1 exaggerate, distort the truth, fantasize.
- court, woo. [romanic: related to *romanic]
ROMANIC
—n. = *romance n. 6. —adj. - a of romance. B romance-speaking.
- descended from, or inheriting the civilization etc. Of, the ancient romans. [latin romanicus: related to *roman]
ROMPERS
n. Pl. (also romper suit) young child's one-piece garment covering the legs and trunk.
RONDEAU
n. (pl. Rondeaux pronunc. Same or) poem of ten or thirteen lines with only two rhymes throughout and with the opening words used twice as a refrain. [french: related to *rondel]
