Road

(20), n. [A-S. râd, a riding, a riding on horseback, that on which one rides or travels, a trackway, a road, from rîdan, to ride.] 1. A journey. [Obs.] With easy roads he came to Leicester. Shak. 2. A place where one may ride; an open way public passage; a track for travel, forming a communication between one city, town, or place, and another. I think this be the most villainous house in all the London road for fleas. Shak. ☞ The word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic term it includes highway, street, and lane. 3. An inroad; incursion of an enemy; an invasion; a raid. [Obs.] The king of Scotland . . . turned his enterprise into a road, and wasted Northumberland with fire and sword. Bacon. On the road, passing; traveling. Law.—To take to the road, to engage in robbery upon the highways. Syn.—Way; highway; street; lane; pathway; route; passage; course. See WAY.