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.

Somewhat rude.

An extinct order or suborder of bivalve mollusks characteristic of the Cretaceous period; -- called also Rudista. See Illust. under Hippurite.

Rudeness; ignorance.

Either of the feasts of the Holy Cross, occuring on May 3 and September 14, annually.

Pertaining to, or designating, a set of astronomical tables computed by Kepler, and founded on the observations of Tycho Brahe; -- so named from Rudolph II., emperor of Germany.

Sorrow; repetance.

Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.

A private circle or assembly at a private house; a circle.

Reddish; tinged with red.

To ruffle; to disorder.

A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone perch, or striped perch.

Furnished with a ruff.

To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.

Ruffians, collectively; a body of ruffians.

Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly.

Ruffianly.

Like a ruffian; bold in crimes; characteristic of a ruffian; violent; brutal.

Ruffianly.

Disordered.

That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.

Having no ruffle.

The act of ruffling.

One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is obtained from gallic acid as a brown or red crystalline substance, and is related to rufiopin and anthracene.

A yellowish red crystalline substance related to anthracene, and obtained from opianic acid.

A phenol derivative of anthracene obtained as a white crystalline substance, which on oxidation produces a red dyestuff related to anthraquinone.

Reddish; of a yellowish red or brownish red color; tawny.

Eructation; belching.

A kind of hood for a hawk.

To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.

Wearing a coarse gown or shaggy garment made of rug.

Having shaggy hair; shock-headed.

A wrinkle; a fold; as, the rugae of the stomach.

Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled.

Full of asperities on the surface; broken into sharp or irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough; as, a rugged mountain; a rugged road.

Rugged; rough.

A nappy cloth.

To scrape or rasp, as a bone; to scale.

An extinct tribe of fossil corals, including numerous species, many of them of large size. They are characteristic of the Paleozoic formations. The radiating septs, when present, are usually in multiples of four. See Cyathophylloid.

Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.

The quality or state of being rugose.

Wrinkled; rugose.

Somewhat rugose.

To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.

Capable of being ruined.

Involved in ruin; ruined.

The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.

One who, or that which, ruins.

Having the appearance of ruins, or of the ruins of houses; -- said of certain minerals.

Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project.

The roc.

That may be ruled; subject to rule; accordant or conformable to rule.

To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority; -- often followed by over.

A stickler for rules; a slave of rules

Destitute of rule; lawless.

One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor.

The act of one who rules; ruled lines.

In a ruling manner; so as to rule.

Chopped meat stuffed into small bags of tripe. They are cut in slices and fried.

Orderly; easily restrained; -- opposed to unruly.

A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.

To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.

One who, or that which, rumbles.

a. n. from Rumble, v. i.

In a rumbling manner.

Grog.

Same as Rombowline.

The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag. See Illust. below. -- ! PCP -->

A yellow crystalline substance found in the root of yellow dock (Rumex crispus) and identical with chrysophanic acid.

Ruminant; ruminating.

A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.

A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies.

In a ruminant manner; by ruminating, or chewing the cud.

To chew over again.

Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.

The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud.

Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation.

One who ruminates or muses; a meditator.

A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel.

To search a place narrowly.

One who rummages.

A large and tall glass, or drinking cup.

Strange; odd.

A sort of Spanish wine.

To report by rumor; to tell.

A teller of news; especially, one who spreads false reports.

Of or pertaining to a rumor; of the nature of rumors.

The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.

A Shakespearean word of uncertain meaning. Perhaps /fattened in the rump, pampered./

A member or a supporter of the Rump Parliament.

A fold or plait; a wrinkle.

Wrinkled; crumpled.

Destitute of a rump.

Rumpled.

A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel.