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Webster's English Dictionary

road

n. [AS. rd a riding, that on which one rides or travels, a road, fr. rdan to ride. See Ride, and cf. Raid.]1. A journey, or stage of a journey. ()

With easy roads he came to Leicester. (Shak.)

2. An inroad; an invasion; a raid. (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.)

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[Possibly akin to Icel. reii the rigging of a ship, E. ready.]4. A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads. (Shak.)

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Now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners, For we be come unto a quiet rode [road]. (Spenser.)

On the road, or Uponthe road, traveling or passing over a road; coming or going; traveling; on the way. [1913 Webster] My hat and wig will soon be here, They are upon the road. Cowper. [1913 Webster] -- Road agent, a highwayman, especially on the stage routes of the unsettled western parts of the United States; -- a humorous euphemism. [Western U.S.] [1913 Webster] The highway robber -- road agent he is quaintly called. The century. [1913 Webster] -- Road book, a guidebook in respect to roads and distances. -- road kill See roadkill in the vocabulary. -- 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 (Zol.), 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. ()

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