Road n. 1.A journey, or stage of a journey. (Obs.) "With easy roads he came to Leicester."
2.An inroad; an invasion; a raid. (Obs.)
3.A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. "The most villainous house in all the London road." Note: The word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic term it includes highway, street, and lane.
4.A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads. "Now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners, For we be come unto a quiet rode (road)."
On the road, or Uponthe road, traveling or passing over a road; coming or going; traveling; on the way. "My hat and wig will soon be here, They are upon the road."
Road agent, a highwayman, especially on the stage routes of the unsettled western parts of the United States; a humorous euphemism. (Western U.S.) "The highway robber road agent he is quaintly called."
Road book, a guidebook in respect to roads and distances.
road kill See roadkill in the vocabulary. Road metal, the broken, stone used in macadamizing roads.
Road roller, a heavy roller, or combinations of rollers, for making earth, macadam, or concrete roads smooth and compact. often driven by steam.
Road runner (Zool.), the chaparral cock.
Road steamer, a locomotive engine adapted to running on common roads.
To go on the road, to engage in the business of a commercial traveler. (Colloq.)
To take the road, to begin or engage in traveling.
To take to the road, to engage in robbery upon the highways.
Synonyms: Way; highway; street; lane; pathway; route; passage; course. See Way. 
