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Rogue,
river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, rising in SW Oreg., in the Cascade Range N of Crater Lake. It flows southwest and west through a fertile valley (noted for its orchard fruits) and then across the Coast Range to the Pacific Ocean at Gold Beach. The Rogue and its tributaries irrigate lands around Grants Pass, Medford, and Ashland.The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia™ Copyright © 2013, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/cup/
rogue
a. an animal of vicious character that has separated from the main herd and leads a solitary life
b. (as modifier): a rogue elephant
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rogue
(games)[Unix] A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using
character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently
ported to other Unix systems. The original BSD "curses(3)"
screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold to
support "rogue(6)" and has since become one of Unix's most
important and heavily used application libraries. Nethack,
Omega, Larn, and an entire subgenre of computer dungeon games
all took off from the inspiration provided by "rogue(6)". See
also nethack.
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