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rupia | an eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust. |
rupial | of or pertaining to rupia. |
rupicola | a genus of beautiful south american passerine birds, including the cock of the rock. |
rupicoline | rock-inhabiting. |
ruption | a breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture. |
ruptuary | one not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier. |
rupture | the act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring. |
rupture | breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture. |
rupture | hernia. see hernia. |
rupture | a bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. see explosion. |
ruptured | of rupture |
rupturing | of rupture |
rupture | to part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel. |
rupture | to produce a hernia in. |
rupture | to suffer a breach or disruption. |
ruptured | having a rupture, or hernia. |
rupturewort | same as burstwort. |
rupturewort | a west indian plant somewhat resembling burstwort. |
rural | of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect. |
rural | of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy. |
rurales | the gossamer-winged butterflies; a family of small butterflies, including the hairstreaks, violets, and theclas. |
ruralism | the quality or state of being rural; ruralness. |
ruralism | a rural idiom or expression. |
ruralist | one who leads a rural life. |
ties | of rurality |
rurality | the quality or state of being rural. |
rurality | a rural place. |
ruralized | of ruralize |
ruralizing | of ruralize |
ruralize | to render rural; to give a rural appearance to. |
ruralize | to become rural; to go into the country; to rusticate. |
rurally | in a rural manner; as in the country. |
ruralness | the quality or state of being rural. |
ruricolist | an inhabitant of the country. |
ruridecanal | of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect. |
rurigenous | born in the country. |
ruse | an artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit. |
rush | a name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of juncus and scirpus. |
rush | the merest trifle; a straw. |
rushed | of rush |
rushing | of rush |
rush | to move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice. |
rush | to enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation. |
rush | to push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward. |
rush | to recite or pass without an error. |
rush | a moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water. |
rush | great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business. |
rush | a perfect recitation. |
rush | a rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush. |
rush | the act of running with the ball. |
rush-bearing | a kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. |
rushbuckler | a bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler. |
rushed | abounding or covered with rushes. |
rusher | one who rushes. |
rusher | one who strewed rushes on the floor at dances. |
rushiness | the quality or state of abounding with rushes. |
rushingly | in a rushing manner. |
rushlight | a rush candle, or its light; hence, a small, feeble light. |
rushlike | resembling a rush; weak. |
rushy | abounding with rushes. |
rushy | made of rushes. |
rusine | of, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus rusa, which includes the sambur deer of india. |
rusk | a kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit. |
rusk | a kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores. |
rusk | bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar. |
rusma | a depilatory made of orpiment and quicklime, and used by the turks. see rhusma. |
russ | a russian, or the russians. |
russ | the language of the russians. |
russ | of or pertaining to the russians. |
russet | of a reddish brown color, or a red gray; of the color composed of blue, red, and yellow in equal strength, but unequal proportions, namely, two parts of red to one each of blue and yellow; also, of a yellowish brown color. |
russet | coarse; homespun; rustic. |
russet | a russet color; a pigment of a russet color. |
russet | cloth or clothing of a russet color. |
russet | a country dress; -- so called because often of a russet color. |
russet | an apple, or a pear, of a russet color; as, the english russet, and the roxbury russet. |
russeting | see russet, n., 2 and 4. |
russety | of a russet color; russet. |
russia | a country of europe and asia. |
russian | of or pertaining to russia, its inhabitants, or language. |
russian | a native or inhabitant of russia; the language of russia. |
russianize | to make russian, or more or less like the russians; as, to russianize the poles. |
russification | the act or process of russifying, or the state of being russified. |
russify | to russianize; as, to russify conquered tribes. |
russophile | alt. of russophilist |
russophilist | one who, not being a russian, favors russian policy and aggrandizement. |
russophobe | alt. of russophobist |
russophobist | one who dreads russia or russian influence. |
russophobia | morbid dread of russia or of russian influence. |
rust | the reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion. |
rust | a minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses , now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew . as rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish. |
rust | that which resembles rust in appearance or effects. |
rust | a composition used in making a rust joint. see rust joint, below. |
rust | foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat. |
rust | corrosive or injurious accretion or influence. |
rusted | of rust |
rusting | of rust |
rust | to contract rust; to be or become oxidized. |
rust | to be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants. |
rust | to degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction. |
rust | to cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind. |