Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)
source: WordNet 3.0
British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)
source: WordNet 3.0
British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932)
source: WordNet 3.0
a politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977)
source: WordNet 3.0
American seamstress said to have made the first American flag at the request of George Washington (1752-1836)
source: WordNet 3.0
The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees.
source: Webster 1913
verb
To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark.
