Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 86
Rum (n.) A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.
Rumble (v. i.) To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.
Rumble (v. i.) To murmur; to ripple.
Rumble (n.) A noisy report; rumor.
Rumble (n.) 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.
Rumble (n.) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
Rumble (n.) A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
Rumble (v. t.) To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.
Rumbler (n.) One who, or that which, rumbles.
Rumbling () a. & n. from Rumble, v. i.
Rumblingly (adv.) In a rumbling manner.
Rumbo (n.) Grog.
Rumbowline (n.) Same as Rombowline.
Rumen (n.) The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag. See Illust. below.
Rumen (n.) The cud of a ruminant.
Rumicin (n.) A yellow crystalline substance found in the root of yellow dock (Rumex crispus) and identical with chrysophanic acid.
Ruminal (a.) Ruminant; ruminating.
Ruminant (a.) (Zool.) 反芻的；沉思的；默想的 Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.
Ruminant (n.) (Zool.) A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.
Ruminant (a.) Related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; "ruminant mammals" [ant: nonruminant].
Ruminant (n.) 反芻動物 Any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments.
Ruminantia (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) 反芻亞目 A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies.
Note: The vegetable food, after the first mastication, enters the first stomach (r). It afterwards passes into the second (n), where it is moistened, and formed into pellets which the animal has the power of bringing back to the mouth to be chewed again, after which it is swallowed into the third stomach (m), whence it passes to the fourth (s), where it is finally digested.
Ruminantia (n.) Cattle; bison; sheep; goats; antelopes; deer; chevrotains; giraffes; camels [syn: Ruminantia, suborder Ruminantia].
Ruminantly (adv.) In a ruminant manner; by ruminating, or chewing the cud.
Ruminated (imp. & p. p.) of Ruminate.
Ruminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruminate.
Ruminate (v. i.) To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. "Cattle free to ruminate." -- Wordsworth.
Ruminate (v. i.) Fig.: To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect. -- Cowper.
Apart from the hope of the gospel, who is there that ruminates on the felicity of heaven? -- I. Taylor.
Ruminate (v. t.) To chew over again.
Ruminate (v. t.) Fig.: To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin. -- Dryden.
What I know Is ruminated, plotted, and set down. -- Shak. Ruminate
Ruminate (a.) Alt. of Ruminated.
Ruminated (a.) (Bot.) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
Ruminate (v.) Chew the cuds; "cows ruminate."
Ruminate (v.) Reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate].
Rumination (n.) The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud.
Rumination is given to animals to enable them at once to lay up a great store of food, and afterward to chew it. -- Arbuthnot.
Rumination (n.) The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection.
Retiring full of rumination sad. -- Thomson.
Rumination (n.) (Physiol.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man.
Rumination (n.) A calm, lengthy, intent consideration [syn: contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, musing, thoughtfulness].
Rumination (n.) (Of ruminants) Chewing (the cud); "ruminants have remarkable powers of rumination."
Rumination (n.) Regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding.
Ruminative (a.) Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation.
Ruminative (a.) Deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"; [syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative].
Ruminator (n.) One who ruminates or muses; a meditator.
Ruminator (n.) A reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation [syn: muser, muller, ponderer, ruminator].
Rumkin (n.) A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel. [Obs.]
Rummage (n.) (Naut.) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage. [Obs.]
Rummage (n.) A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.
He has made such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony. -- Walpole.
Rummage sale, A clearance sale of unclaimed goods in a public store, or of odds and ends which have accumulated in a shop. -- Simmonds.
Rummaged (imp. & p. p.) of Rummage.
Rummaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rummage.
Rummage (v. t.) (Naut.) To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage, and romage. [Obs.]
They might bring away a great deal more than they do, if they would take pain in the romaging. -- Hakluyt.
Rummage (v. t.) To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.
He . . . searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks. -- Howell.
What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account! -- M. Arnold.
Rummage (v. i.) To search a place narrowly.
I have often rummaged for old books in Little Britain and Duck Lane. -- Swift.
[His house] was haunted with a jolly ghost, that . . . . . . rummaged like a rat. -- Tennyson.
Rummage (n.) A jumble of things to be given away.
Rummage (n.) A thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion); "he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis" [syn: ransacking, rummage].
Rummage (v.) Search haphazardly; "We rummaged through the drawers."
Rummager (n.) One who rummages.
Rummager (n.) (Naut.) A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager, and romager. [Obs.]
The master must provide a perfect mariner, called a romager, to range and bestow all merchandise. -- Hakluyt.
Rummer (n.) A large and tall glass, or drinking cup. [Obs.] -- J. Philips.
Rummer (n.) A large drinking glass (ovoid bowl on a stem) for drinking toasts.
Rummy (a.) Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.
Rummies (n. pl. ) of Rummy.
Rummy (n.) One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person. [Low]
Rummy (a.) Strange; odd. [Slang]
Rummy (a.) Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular].
Rummy (n.) A chronic drinker [syn: drunkard, drunk, rummy, sot, inebriate, wino].
Rummy (n.) A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards [syn: rummy, rum].
Rumney (n.) A sort of Spanish wine. [Obs.]
Rumor (n.) A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety.
This rumor of him went forth throughout all Judea, and throughout all the region round about. -- Luke vii. 17.
Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight. -- Shak.
Rumor (n.) A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth; -- in this sense often personified.
Rumor next, and Chance, And Tumult, and Confusion, all embroiled. -- Milton.
Rumor (n.) A prolonged, indistinct noise. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Rumored (imp. & p. p.) of Rumor.
Rumoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rumor.
Rumor (v. t.) To report by rumor; to tell.
'T was rumored My father 'scaped from out the citadel. -- Dryden.
Rumor (n.) Gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth [syn: rumor, rumour, hearsay].
Rumor (v.) Tell or spread rumors; "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman" [syn: rumor, rumour, bruit].
Rumor. () A general public report of certain things, without any certainty as to their truth.
Rumor. () In general, rumor cannot be received in evidence, but when the question is whether such rumor existed, and not its truth or falsehood, then evidence of it may be given.
Rumor (n.) A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade.
His be the terror of a foe unseen, His the inutile hand upon the hilt, And mine the deadly tongue, long, slender, keen, Hinting a rumor of some ancient guilt.
So shall I slay the wretch without a blow, Spare me to celebrate his overthrow, And nurse my valor for another foe. Joel Buxter
Rumorer (n.) A teller of news; especially, one who spreads false reports. -- Shak.
Rumorous (a.) Of or pertaining to a rumor; of the nature of rumors. [Obs.] -- Sir H. Wotton.
Rumorous (a.) Famous; notorious. [Obs.] -- Bale.
Rumorous (a.) Murmuring. [Obs. or Poetic] -- Drayton.
Rump (n.) The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.
Rump (n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.
Rump (n.) Fig.: The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant.
Rump Parliament, or The Rump (Eng. Hist.), The remnant of the Long Parliament after the expulsion by Cromwell in 1648 of those who opposed his purposes. It was dissolved by Cromwell in 1653, but twice revived for brief sessions, ending finally in 1659.
The Rump abolished the House of Lords, the army abolished the Rump, and by this army of saints Cromwell governed. -- Swift.
Rump steak, A beefsteak from the rump. -- Goldsmith.
Rump (n.) The part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks [syn: hindquarters, croup, croupe, rump].
Rump (n.) Fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round.
Rump (n.) The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass].
Rumper (n.) A member or a supporter of the Rump Parliament. -- I. Disraeli.
Rump-fed (a.) A Shakespearean word of uncertain meaning. Perhaps "fattened in the rump, pampered." "The rump-fed ronyon."
Rumpled (imp. & p. p.) of Rumple.
Rumpling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rumple.
Rumple (v. t. & i.) To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.
They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats. -- Burke.
Rumple (n.) A fold or plait; a wrinkle. -- Dryden.
Rumple (v.) Disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water" [syn: ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up].
Rumple (v.) To gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit].
Rumple (v.) Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle].
Rumpled (a.) Wrinkled; crumpled. -- Pope.
Rumpled (a.) In disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers [syn: disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled].
Rumpless (a.) Destitute of a rump.
Rumply (a.) Rumpled. -- Carlyle.
Rumpus (n.) A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel. [Colloq.]
Rumpus (n.) The act of making a noisy disturbance [syn: commotion, din, ruction, ruckus, rumpus, tumult].
Rumpus (v.) Cause a disturbance.
Rumpus (n.) [ S ] (Informal) 喧鬧，鬧轟轟；（尤指混亂的）爭吵，抱怨 A lot of noise, especially a loud and confused argument or complaint.
// There was a real rumpus going on in the house next door last night.
Rumseller (n.) One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.
Ran (imp.) of Run.
Run () of Run.
Run (p. p.) of Run.
Running (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Run.
Run (v. i.) To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog. Specifically:
Run (v. i.) Of voluntary or personal action: (a.) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten. "Ha, ha, the fox!" and after him they ran. -- Chaucer.
Run (v. i.) To flee, as from fear or danger.
Run (v. i.) To steal off; to depart secretly.
Run (v. i.) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.
Run (v. i.) To pass from one state or condition to another; to come into a certain condition; -- often with in or into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt.
Run (v. i.) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle.
Run (v. i.) To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as, to run from one subject to another.
Run (v. i.) To discuss; to continue to think or speak about something; -- with on.
Run (v. i.) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; -- with on.
Run (v. i.) To creep, as serpents.
Run (v. i.) Of involuntary motion:
To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course; as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring; her blood ran cold.
Run (v. i.) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.
The fire ran along upon the ground. -- Ex. ix. 23.
Run (v. i.) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.
As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run. -- Addison.
Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire. -- Woodward.
Run (v. i.) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round.
Run (v. i.) To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago.
Run (v. i.) To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
She saw with joy the line immortal run, Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son. -- Pope.
Run (v. i.) To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station.
Run (v. i.) To make progress; to proceed; to pass.
As fast as our time runs, we should be very glad in most part of our lives that it ran much faster. -- Addison.
Run (v. i.) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week.
When we desire anything, our minds run wholly on the good circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones. -- Swift.
Run (v. i.) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.
Where the generally allowed practice runs counter to it. -- Locke.
Little is the wisdom, where the flight So runs against all reason. -- Shak.
Run (v. i.) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
The king's ordinary style runneth, "Our sovereign lord the king." -- Bp. Sanderson.