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 Rove, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roved p. pr. & vb. n. Roving.]
 1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. [Obs.]
 2. Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.
    For who has power to walk has power to rove.   --Arbuthnot.
 3. Archery To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
 Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart
 At that good knight so cunningly didst rove.   --Spenser.
 Syn: -- To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.