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- English Word Rule Definition To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion; to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive.
- English Word Rule Definition To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
- English Word Rule Definition To require or command by rule; to give as a direction or order of court.
- English Word Rule Definition To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.
- English Word Rule Definition To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority; -- often followed by over.
- English Word Rule Definition To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule.
- English Word Rule Definition To keep within a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before.
- English Word Rule-monger Definition A stickler for rules; a slave of rules
- English Word Ruled Definition of Rule
- English Word Ruleless Definition Destitute of rule; lawless.
- English Word Ruler Definition One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor.
- English Word Ruler Definition A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a).
- English Word Ruling Definition of Rule
- English Word Ruling Definition Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign.
- English Word Ruling Definition Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine or pen.
- English Word Ruling Definition The act of one who rules; ruled lines.
- English Word Ruling Definition A decision or rule of a judge or a court, especially an oral decision, as in excluding evidence.
- English Word Rulingly Definition In a ruling manner; so as to rule.
- English Word Rullichies Definition Chopped meat stuffed into small bags of tripe. They are cut in slices and fried.
- English Word Ruly Definition Orderly; easily restrained; -- opposed to unruly.
- English Word Rum Definition A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor.
- English Word Rum Definition Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow.
- English Word Rum Definition A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.
- English Word Rumble Definition To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.
- English Word Rumble Definition To murmur; to ripple.
- English Word Rumble Definition A noisy report; rumor.
- English Word Rumble Definition A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train.
- English Word Rumble Definition A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
- English Word Rumble Definition A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
- English Word Rumble Definition To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.