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.

Of or pertaining to rupia.

A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock.

Rock-inhabiting.

A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.

To suffer a breach or disruption.

Having a rupture, or hernia.

Same as Burstwort. A West Indian plant (Alternanthera polygonoides) somewhat resembling burstwort.

Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect.

The gossamer-winged butterflies; a family of small butterflies, including the hairstreaks, violets, and theclas.

The quality or state of being rural; ruralness.

One who leads a rural life.

The quality or state of being rural.

To become rural; to go into the country; to rusticate.

In a rural manner; as in the country.

The quality or state of being rural.

An inhabitant of the country.

Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect.

Born in the country.

An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.

A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.

A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church.

A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler.

Abounding or covered with rushes.

One who strewed rushes on the floor at dances.

The quality or state of abounding with rushes.

In a rushing manner.

A rush candle, or its light; hence, a small, feeble light.

Resembling a rush; weak.

Abounding with rushes.

Of, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus Rusa, which includes the sambur deer (Rusa Aristotelis) of India.

A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit.

A depilatory made of orpiment and quicklime, and used by the Turks. See Rhusma.

Of or pertaining to the Russians.

A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.

See Russet, n., 2 and 4.

Of a russet color; russet.

A country of Europe and Asia.

Of or pertaining to Russia, its inhabitants, or language. A native or inhabitant of Russia; the language of Russia.

To make Russian, or more or less like the Russians; as, to Russianize the Poles.

The act or process of Russifying, or the state of being Russified.

To Russianize; as, to Russify conquered tribes.

One who, not being a Russian, favors Russian policy and aggrandizement.

Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence.

To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.

Full of rust; resembling rust; causing rust; rusty.

An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.

Rustic.

To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on.

Resembling rustic work. See Rustic work (a), under Rustic.

The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time.

The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.

In a rustic manner; rustically.

In a rusty state.

The quality or state of being rusty.

A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.

One who, or that which, rustles.

Free from rust.

Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.

To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.

A kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a Swedish turnip. See Turnip.

Of or pertaining to plants of a natural order (Rutaceae) of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu.

A salt of rutic acid.

Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.

Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with ruthenious compounds.