A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.

One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow.

Hubbub; uproar.

Uproarious.

Resembling a rowdy in temper or conduct; characteristic of a rowdy.

the conduct of a rowdy.

Formed into a row, or rows; having a row, or rows; as, a twelve-rowed ear of corn.

To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse).

A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.

One who rows with an oar.

See Rowen.

A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar; same as oarlock.

see Roun.

To whisper.

An opening in the side of small vessels of war, near the surface of the water, to facilitate rowing in calm weather.

A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.

Royal.

Printing and writing papers of particular sizes. See under paper, n.

A petty or powerless king.

the principles or conduct of royalists.

An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government.

The act of making loyal to a king.

to make royal.

In a royal or kingly manner; like a king; as becomes a king.

The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty.

To bite; to gnaw.

Mangy; scabby; hence, mean; paltry; troublesome.

same as Roister, Roisterer.

A little king.

Wild; irregular.

The act of rubbing; friction.

The sound of a drum when continuously beaten; hence, a clamorous, repeated sound; a clatter.

Quatrians; as, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Sometimes in pl. construed as sing., a poem in such stanzas.

Robbed; borrowed.

Rubbish.

One who, or that which, rubs. An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning. A coarse file, or the rough part of a file. A whetstone; a rubstone. An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc or a synthetic rubber[4]. The cushion of an electrical machine. One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath. Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub.

A closed loop of rubber usually having a thin rectangular cross-section; also called elastic band; -- it varies in length from the circumference of a finger to several inches, and is usually used to hold several objects together temporarily, by the tension exerted when the band is stretched and fitted around the objects to be held; as, to hold a pack of cards together with a rubber band.

To coat or impregnate with rubber or a rubber solution or preparation, as silk.

Rubbish.

a. n. from Rub, v.

Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.

Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.

See Rubble, 1 and 2.

Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.

Relating to, or containing, rubble.

Reddish.

Making red. An external application which produces redness of the skin.

The act or process of making red.

A little ruby.

An acute but mild viral infection characterized by a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but attended by only mild respiratory problems or fever; -- called also German measles. The infective virus is called Rubella virus, or Rubivirus. If contracted by a woman during the first several months of pregnancy, rubella may cause serious abnormalities in the fetus.

The virus that causes rubella.

A red color used in enameling.

A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium.

the measles. Rubella.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained.

The quality or state of being rubescent; a reddening; a flush.

Growing or becoming red; tending to redness.

Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms.

A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.

One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root.

A ribble.

Colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses.

A variety of ruby of a yellowish red color, from Brazil.

A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar.

Inclining to redness; ruddy; red.

The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness.

Of or pertaining to rubidium; containing rubidium.

A nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H17N; also, any one of the group od metameric compounds of which rubidine is the type.

A rare metallic element of the alkali metal series, atomic number 37. It occurs quite widely, but in small quantities, and always combined. It is isolated as a soft yellowish white metal, analogous to potassium in most of its properties. Symbol Rb. Atomic weight, 85.48.

Making red; as, rubific rays.

The act of making red.

Having the nature or quality of red; as, the rubiform rays of the sun.

To redden.

Having the appearance or color of iron rust; rusty-looking.

same as Rust, n., 2.

A ruby.

Red; ruddy.

One of the red dye products extracted from madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.

The unit of monetary value in Russia. -- and, 1917-1992, in the Soviet Union --> It is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents. The silver ruble is a coin worth about 60 cents.

To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate.

Colored in, or marked with, red; placed in rubrics.

To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form.

One skilled in, or tenaciously adhering to, the rubric or rubrics.

Redness.

A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.

A genus of rosaceous plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.

To make red; to redden.

Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red.

A European gold wasp (Chrysis ignita) which has the under side of the abdomen bright red, and the other parts deep bluish green with a metallic luster. The larva is parasitic in the nests of other wasps and of bees.

Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States (Trochilus colubris).

red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.

Of, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus Rucervus, which includes the swamp deer of India.

A plaited, quilled, or goffered strip of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets.

A ruche, or ruches collectively.

A heap; a rick.

The act of belching wind.

An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak.

To make red.

A genus of composite plants, the coneflowers, consisting of perennial herbs with showy pedunculate heads, having a hemispherical involucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical chaffy receptacle. There are about thirty species, exclusively North American. Rudbeckia hirta, the black-eyed Susan, is a common weed in meadows.

A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus erythrophthalmus). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also redeye, roud, finscale, and shallow. A blue variety is called azurine, or blue roach.

The mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment.

The upper end of the rudderpost, to which the tiller is attached.

The hole in the deck through which the rudderpost passes.

Without a rudder.

The shank of a rudder, having the blade at one end and the attachments for operating it at the other.

The main part or blade of the rudder, which is connected by hinges, or the like, with the sternpost of a vessel.

Made ruddy or red.

In a ruddy manner.

The quality or state of being ruddy; as, the ruddiness of the cheeks or the sky.

To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge.

The European robin.

To make ruddy.

Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.

Cabling. See Cabling.

Of or pertaining to rubbish..

An uncivil, turbulent fellow.

A German wine made near R/desheim, on the Rhine.

To furnish with first principles or rules; to insrtuct in the rudiments.

Rudimentary.

Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.