To wander at pleasure or without definite aim; pass the time in going about freely; range at random, or as accident or fancy may determine; roam; ramble.To aim, as in archery or other sport, especially at some accidental or casual mark. See roving mark, below.To act the rover; lead a wandering life of robbery, especially on the high seas; rob.To have rambling thoughts; be in a delirium; rave; be light-headed; hence, to be in high spirits; be full of fun and frolic. [Scotch.]Synonyms Roam, Wander, etc. See ramble, v.To wander over; roam about.. To discharge or shoot, as an arrow, at rovers, or in roving. See rover, 5.To plow into ridges, as a field, by turning one furrow upon another.n. The act of roving; a ramble; a wandering.To draw through an eye or aperture; bring, as wool or cotton, into the form which it receives before being spun into thread; card into flakes. as wool, etc.; slub; sliver.To draw out into thread; ravel out.n. A roll of wool, cotton, etc., drawn out and slightly twisted; a slub.n. A diamond-shaped washer placed over the end of a rove clench-nail, which is riveted down upon it.n. Preterit and past participle of reeve.n. An obsolete form of roof.n. A unit of weight, the arroba, formerly used in England.In mech., to turn; make round: said particularly of turning stone: as, to rove a millstone.