noun
definition
An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
Examples of roc in a Sentence
For a collection of legends about the roc, see Lane's Arabian Nights, chap. xx.
Thus, I personally would like to take this opportunity to welcome this concurrent accession of the ROC and the PRC.
How it Began Discovery of the ROC post structure was almost accidental.
The following are the ROC government¡¦s position on the 2005 Lunar New Year cross-strait charter flights.
Two years ago, the ROC initiated a pilot program to allow conscientious objectors to fulfill their military service obligation in the diplomatic corps.
In 1972, the ROC established a consulate in Colon and on June 19, 1989, this was upgraded to a consulate general.
In February 2002, the ROC will hold an election for rural and township chiefs and county and city councilors.
Political prisoners are a thing of the past and ROC citizens can openly criticize their government.
The money from the sale of the ROC's is used to recoup the capital outlay by Wind Direct.
The ROC can have interrupts to the readout transputer enabled or disabled.
The roc is hardly different from the Arabian `anka (see Phoenix); it is also identified with the Persian simurgh, the bird which figures in Firdausi's epic as the foster-father of the hero Zal, father of Rustam.
Roc Oil is an Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) Listed Oil and Gas Company.
I like alternative music and playing guitar and was a memeber of the roc soc and am a member of trent snowsports.
Individual study ROC plots were produced for studies with at least 10 years ' clinical follow-up and the area under the curves was compared.
Civil Defense and Military Networks The UKWMO had its own teleprinter network linking all the ROC Group Headquarters.
There is also a rack of teleprinter interfaces with one linking to ROC Group Headquarters at Turnhouse.
In addition to this daily moisturizer, RoC also offers a "deep" night cream and night serum.
Many "deep" products, such as RoC, can be readily purchased at drugstores and mass merchandise stores, such as Target.
At this time the state had been brought to the brink of ruin by the growth of avarice and luxury; there was a glaring inequality in the distribution of land and wealth, and the number of full citizens had sunk to 700, of whom about roc practically monopolized the land.
Aurillac stands on the right bank of the Jordanne, and is dominated from the north-west by the Roc Castanet, crowned by the castle of St Etienne, the keep of which dates from the 11th century.
In deep water the closing mechanism is usually actuated by a screw propeller which begins to work when the line is being hauled in and can be set so as to close the waterbottle in a very few fathoms. A small but heavy water-bottle has been devised by Martin Knudsen, provided with a pressure gauge or bathometer, by which samples may be collected from any moderate depth down to about roc fathoms, on board a vessel going at full speed.
This page gives an overview of all articles in the 1911 Brittanica which are alphabetized under Roc to Roo.
The chief garments were the coat (roc), the trousers (brec), and the cloak, for which there seem to have been a number of names (lofa, hacele, sciccing, pad, hwitel).
Such a feather was brought to the Great Khan, and we read also of a gigantic stump of a roc's quill being prayer and simple contact.
Aepyornis maxima, which laid enormous eggs, and not unnaturally recalls the mythical " roc " that figures so largely in Arabian tales.