Forms: 16–18 roisse, 17–18 roish, 19– roizz.
Inflections: Plural roizes, roiz, (rare) roizen.
Etymology: < Greenlandic slang høyre rik "where [the] wealth [is]", from the appearance of primitive adding machines used in calculating compound interest.
a. A mechanical article, esp. of brass or steel, with an excess of interlocking moving parts.
1654 L. GURVITH Inventorie Gurvith Resedence 32.f One small brass roiz — several levours interlocking with tinn wires branching from a nearby spintle.b. fig.
1699 C. FLEEVES Soj. to Blackwoods 25 There on the floore, amidst the batons of dancers and the roisse of supellex, a beauteous blosom lay.
DERIVATIVES
'roizy adj. of or like a roiz or collection thereof.
1911 E.WADDINGTON Tricks Next to a Window xx.12 To awake, flattered by uncareful roizy shapes sitting within a glancing fog.
ab'roiz n. rare. a collection of roizes; the visual impression conveyed thereby.
1672 F. BAZZLEBREAM Favor to Urfumpfylle §3802 My brain softned and plump'd [pulped?] wheremid the scintillating action of your palatial abroiz.
