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Rushbuckler

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

Rushed

Abounding or covered with rushes.

Rusher

One who strewed rushes on the floor at dances.

Rushiness

The quality or state of abounding with rushes.

Rushlight

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

Rushy

Abounding with rushes.

Rusine

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

Rusk

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

Rusma

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

Russ

Of or pertaining to the Russians.

Russet

A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.

Russia

A country of Europe and Asia.

Russian

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

Russianize

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

Russification

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

Russify

To Russianize; as, to Russify conquered tribes.

Russophobia

Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence.

Rust

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

Rustful

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

Rustic

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

Rusticate

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

Rusticated

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

Rustication

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.

Rusticity

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

Rustiness

The quality or state of being rusty.

Rustle

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

Rustler

One who, or that which, rustles.

Rusty

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

Rut

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

Ruta-baga

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

Rutaceous

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.

Ruth

Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.

Ruthenic

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

Ruthenious

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

Ruthenium

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.

Ruthful

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

Ruthless

Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless.

Rutic

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

Rutilate

To shine; to emit rays of light.

Rutile

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.

Rutilian

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

Rutin

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.

Rutterkin

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

Ruttier

A chart of a course, esp. at sea.

Ruttish

Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious.

Ruttle

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

Rutylene

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

Ryder

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

Rye

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.

Rynd

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

Ryot

A peasant or cultivator of the soil.

Rytina

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.

Saan

Same as Bushmen.

Sabadilla

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.

Sabal

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

Sabbat

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

Sabbatarian

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

Sabbath

A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day.

Sabbathless

Without Sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, without respite or rest.

Sabbatical Sabbatic

Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.

Sabbatism

Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest.

Sabbaton

A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.

Sabella

A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head.

Sabellian

A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father.

Sabellianism

The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.

Sabelloid

Like, or related to, the genus Sabella.

Sabian

An adherent of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies.

Sabianism

The doctrine of the Sabians; the Sabian religion; that species of idolatry which consists in worshiping the sun, moon, and stars; heliolatry.

Sabicu

The very hard wood of a leguminous West Indian tree (Lysiloma Sabicu), valued for shipbuilding.

Sable

To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.

Sabot

A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.

Sabotage

Scamped work. Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.

Sabre Saber

To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.

Sabretasche

A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the sword belt.

Sabulosity

The quality of being sabulous; sandiness; grittiness.

Sac

See 2d Sack.

Sacalait

A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.

Saccade

A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.

Saccate

Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal.

Saccharate

A salt of saccharic acid. In a wider sense, a compound of saccharose, or any similar carbohydrate, with such bases as the oxides of calcium, barium, or lead; a sucrate.

Saccharic

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, saccharine substances; specifically, designating an acid obtained, as a white amorphous gummy mass, by the oxidation of mannite, glucose, sucrose, etc.

Saccharify

To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

Saccharimeter

An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts.

Saccharimetry

The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.

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