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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Intermission of labor, as upon the Sabbath; rest.

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

Same as Sabian.

Same as Sabianism.

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

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.

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

Like, or related to, the genus Sabella.

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

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

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

See Savin.

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

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

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

A kind of freezer for ices.

See Saber.

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

The curlew.

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

Growing in sandy places.

The quality of being sabulous; sandiness; grittiness.

Sandy; gritty.

See 2d Sack.

A kind of fresh-water bass; the crappie.

See Saker.

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

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

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.

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.

Producing sugar; as, sacchariferous canes.

To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

A kind of muslin.

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

Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained by 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.

A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).

A salt of saccharinic acid. A salt of saccharine.

A trade name for benzoic sulphinide.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharin; specifically, designating a complex acid not known in the free state but well known in its salts, which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose (invert sugar) with milk of lime.

To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.