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- English Word Ruff Definition Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name.
- English Word Ruff Definition An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
- English Word Ruff Definition Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
- English Word Ruff Definition A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.
- English Word Ruff Definition A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.
- English Word Ruff Definition A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.
- English Word Ruff Definition A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve.
- English Word Ruff Definition A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.
- English Word Ruff Definition To ruffle; to disorder.
- English Word Ruff Definition To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- English Word Ruff Definition To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.
- English Word Ruff Definition Alt. of Ruffe
- English Word Ruffe Definition A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone, / striped, perch.
- English Word Ruffed Definition of Ruff
- English Word Ruffed Definition Furnished with a ruff.
- English Word Ruffian Definition A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.
- English Word Ruffian Definition A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat.
- English Word Ruffian Definition brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.
- English Word Ruffian Definition To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
- English Word Ruffianage Definition Ruffians, collectively; a body of ruffians.
- English Word Ruffianish Definition Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly.
- English Word Ruffianlike Definition Ruffianly.
- English Word Ruffianly Definition Like a ruffian; bold in crimes; characteristic of a ruffian; violent; brutal.
- English Word Ruffianous Definition Ruffianly.
- English Word Ruffin Definition Disordered.
- English Word Ruffing Definition of Ruff
- English Word Ruffle Definition To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- English Word Ruffle Definition To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.
- English Word Ruffle Definition To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.
- English Word Ruffle Definition To erect in a ruff, as feathers.