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.

One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.

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.

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.

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

A rare element of the light platinum group, found associated with platinum ores, and isolated as a hard, brittle steel-gray metal which is very infusible. Symbol Ru. Atomic weight 103.5. Specific gravity 12.26. See Platinum metals, under Platinum.

Full of ruth Pitiful; tender. Full of sorrow; woeful. Causing sorrow.

Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, rue (Ruta); as, rutic acid, now commonly called capric acid.

Having a reddish glow; shining.

To shine; to emit rays of light.

A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brookite.

Any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Rutila and allied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle (Pelidnota punctata).

A glucoside resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. Rutin is found in the leaves of the rue (Ruta graveolens) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition.

That which ruts.

An old crafty fox or beguiler -- a word of contempt.

A chart of a course, esp. at sea.

Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious.

A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty of breathing; a rattle.

Rooty.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H18, of the acetylene series. It is produced artificially.

See Rial, an old English coin.

A clause added to a document; a rider. See Rider.

A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.

A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.

A peasant or cultivator of the soil.

Eating, or subsisting on, filth.

A branch.

Rush, a plant.

See Rhysimeter.

A ford.

A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (Rytina Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow, stellerine and steller.

See Sadh.

Same as Bushmen.

A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative.

Same as Sabian.

Same as Sabianism.

See Sabianism.

A genus of palm trees including the palmetto of the Southern United States.

Armies; hosts.

In mediaeval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.

Of or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians.

The tenets of Sabbatarians.