A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone perch, or striped perch.
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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.
A coarse kind of woolen cloth, used for wrapping, blanketing, etc.
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.
One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.
Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.
A whitlow running around the finger nail, but not affecting the bone.
An argument or quarrel.
Ordinary; common; unexceptional.
A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade.
a delaying or evasive, and sometimes deceptive, answer to an inquiry or request.
Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse.
A weeding.
The wild radish.
Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.
A circle.
A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.
A small barrel of no certain dimensions. It may contain from 3 to 20 gallons, but it usually holds about 14/ gallons.
A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general.
A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths.
A floor timber in a ship.
The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.
Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.
Same as Rundlet.
A rivulet or small brook.
One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
See Rennet.
The act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running was slow.
In a running manner.
See Ronion.
The science of runes.
A felon or whitlow.
Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.
Like a runt; diminutive; mean.
The channel of a stream.
A silver coin, and money of account, in the East Indies.
Rocky.
A kind of glass drop with a long tail, made by dropping melted glass into water. It is remarkable for bursting into fragments when the surface is scratched or the tail broken; -- so called from Prince Rupert, nephew of Charles I., by whom they were first brought to England. Called also Rupert's ball, and glass tear.
An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust.
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