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- English Word Rued Definition of Rue
- English Word Rueful Definition Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.
- English Word Rueful Definition Expressing sorrow.
- English Word Ruell bone Definition See rewel bone.
- English Word Ruelle Definition A private circle or assembly at a private house; a circle.
- English Word Rufescent Definition Reddish; tinged with red.
- English Word Ruff Definition A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
- English Word Ruff Definition The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.
- English Word Ruff Definition To trump.
- English Word Ruff Definition A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children.
- 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.