Search:ruff -> RUFF
ruff
r u f f hex:#114;#117;#102;#102;
The Salt of the World?
- Ruff - n. - A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
- Ruff - n. - The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.
- Ruff - v. i. & t. - To trump.
- Ruff - n. - A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children.
- Ruff - n. - Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name.
- Ruff - n. - An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
- Ruff - n. - Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
- Ruff - n. - A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.
- Ruff - n. - A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.
- Ruff - n. - A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.
- Ruff - n. - 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.
- Ruff - n. - A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.
- Ruff - v. t. - To ruffle; to disorder.
- Ruff - v. t. - To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- Ruff - v. t. - To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.
- Ruff - n. - Alt. of Ruffe
- Ruffe - n. - A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone, / striped, perch.
- Ruffed - imp. & p. p. - of Ruff
- Ruffed - a. - Furnished with a ruff.
- Ruffian - n. - A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.
- Ruffian - n. - A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat.
- Ruffian - a. - brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.
- Ruffian - v. i. - To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
- Ruffianage - n. - Ruffians, collectively; a body of ruffians.
- Ruffianish - a. - Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly.
- Fall - n. - Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
- Ruff - n. - 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.
- Band - v. t. - A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Blacktail - n. - A fish; the ruff or pope.
- Gorget - n. - A ruff worn by women.
- Quellio - n. - A ruff for the neck.
- Nayaur - n. - A specied of wild sheep (Ovis Hodgsonii), native of Nepaul and Thibet. It has a dorsal mane and a white ruff beneath the neck.
- Ruffle - v. t. - To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- Ruff - v. t. - To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- Rabato - n. - A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato.
- Ruff - n. - A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.