Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R

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Russianize (v. t.) 使……俄國化；使……有俄國特色 To make Russian, or more or less like the Russians; as, to Russianize the Poles.

Russification (n.) 俄羅斯化 The act or process of Russifying, or the state of being Russified.

Russify (v. t.) To Russianize; as, to Russify conquered tribes. Russophile

Russophile (n.) Alt. of Russophilist.

Russophilist (n.) One who, not being a Russian, favors Russian policy and aggrandizement. -- Rus*soph"ilism, n. [Chiefly newspaper words.] Russophobe

Russophobe () Alt. of Russophobist.

Russophobist () One who dreads Russia or Russian influence. [Words sometimes found in the newspapers.]

Russophobia (n.) Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence.

Rust (n.) (Chem.) [U] 鏽，鐵鏽；（腦子等的）遲鈍；（能力等的）荒廢 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 (n.) (Bot.) A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.

Note: Rust is also applied to many other minute fungi which infest vegetation, such as the species of {Ustilago}, {Uredo}, and {Lecythea}.

Rust (n.) That which resembles rust in appearance or effects. Specifically:

Rust (n.) A composition used in making a rust joint. See {Rust joint}, below.

Rust (n.) Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.

Rust (n.) Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.

Sacred truths cleared from all rust and dross of human mixtures. -- Eikon Basilike.

Note: Rust is used in the formation of compounds of obvious meaning; as, rust-colored, rust-consumed, rust-eaten, and the like.

{Rust joint}, A joint made between surfaces of iron by filling the space between them with a wet mixture of cast-iron borings, sal ammoniac, and sulphur, which by oxidation becomes hard, and impervious to steam, water, etc.

{Rust mite} (Zool.), A minute mite ({Phytopius oleivorus" > Rust mite (Zool.), A minute mite ({Phytopius oleivorus) which, by puncturing the rind, causes the rust-colored patches on oranges.

Rusted (imp. & p. p.) of Rust.

Rusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rust.

Rust (v. i.) 生鏽；（腦子等）變遲鈍；（能力等）荒廢 To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.

If gold ruste, what shall iron do? -- Chaucer.

Our armors now may rust. -- Dryden.

Rust (v. i.) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.

Rust (v. i.) Fig.: To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.

Must I rust in Egypt? never more Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece? -- Dryden.

Rust (v. t.) 生鏽；使變遲鈍；使（能力等）荒廢 To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.

Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. -- Shak.

Rust (v. t.) Fig.: To impair by time and inactivity. -- Johnson.

Compare: Ferrugo

Ferrugo (n.) A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the {rust}, from its resemblance to iron rust in color.

Rust (a.) Of the brown color of rust [syn: {rust}, {rusty}, {rust- brown}].

Rust (n.) A red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture.

Rust (n.) A plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi

Rust (n.) The formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low- temperature oxidation in the presence of water [syn: {rust}, {rusting}].

Rust (n.) Any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants [syn: {rust}, {rust fungus}].

Rust (v.) Become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid; "The metal corroded"; "The pipes rusted" [syn: {corrode}, {rust}].

Rust (v.) Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink" [syn: {corrode}, {eat}, {rust}].

Rust (v.) Become coated with oxide.

Rustful (a.) Full of rust; resembling rust; causing rust; rusty. "Rustful sloth." -- Quarles.

Rustic (a.) 鄉下的，農村的 [Z]；鄉村式的；質樸的 Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. "Rustic lays." -- Milton.

And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. -- Gray.

She had a rustic, woodland air. -- Wordsworth.

Rustic (a.) Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. "A rustic muse." -- Spenser.

Rustic (a.) Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.

Rustic (a.) Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected. -- Pope.

Rustic moth (Zool.), Any moth belonging to Agrotis and allied genera. Their larvae are called cutworms. See Cutworm.

Rustic work. (a) (Arch.) Cut stone facing which has the joints worked with grooves or channels, the face of each block projecting beyond the joint, so that the joints are very conspicuous.

Rustic work. (b) (Arch. & Woodwork) Summer houses, or furniture for summer houses, etc., made of rough limbs of trees fancifully arranged.

Syn: Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; awkward; rough; coarse; plain; unadorned; simple; artless; honest. See Rural.

Rustic (n.) 鄉下人，莊稼人 An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.

Hence to your fields, you rustics! hence, away. -- Pope.

Rustic (n.) A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person. [Poetic]

Rustic (a.) Characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness" [syn: countrified, countryfied, rustic].

Rustic (a.) Awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated].

Rustic (a.) Characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls" [syn: agrestic, rustic].

Rustic (n.) An unsophisticated country person.

Rustical (a.) Rustic. "Rustical society." --Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.

Rusticated (imp. & p. p.) of Rusticate.

Rusticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rusticate.

Rusticate (v. i.) 去鄉下；擇居鄉村；變得鄉氣；變得粗魯 To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. -- Pope.

Rusticate (v. t.) To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on.

The town is again beginning to be full, and the rusticated beauty sees an end of her banishment. -- Idler.

Rusticate (v.) Live in the country and lead a rustic life.

Rusticate (v.) Send to the country; "He was rusticated for his bad behavior".

Rusticate (v.) Suspend temporarily from college or university, in England [syn: send down, rusticate].

Rusticate (v.) Give (stone) a rustic look.

Rusticate (v.) Lend a rustic character to; "rusticate the house in the country".

Rusticated (a.) (Arch.) Resembling rustic work. See Rustic work (a), under Rustic.

Rustication (n.) 停學；鄉居生活 The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time.

Rustication (n.) (Arch.) Rustic work.

Rustication (n.) The condition naturally attaching to life in the country.

Rustication (n.) The construction of masonry or brickwork in a rustic manner

Rustication (n.) The action of retiring to and living in the country.

Rustication (n.) Temporary dismissal of a student from a university.

Rustication (n.) Banishment into the country.

Rusticity (n.) 質樸；樸素；鄉氣；粗野 The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.

The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect. -- Addison.

The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. -- Sir W. Scott.

Rusticity (n.) The quality of being rustic or gauche [syn: rusticity, gaucherie] [ant: urbanity].

Rusticly (adv.) In a rustic manner; rustically. -- Chapman.

Compare: Rustically

Rustically (adv.) 土氣地；粗魯地；單純地；樸素地 In a rustic manner.

Rustily (adv.) 鏽蝕地；生疏地 In a rusty state.

Rustiness (n.) 生鏽；腐蝕 The quality or state of being rusty.

Rustiness (n.) The condition of being coated or clogged with rust.

Rustiness (n.) Ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice; "his rustiness showed when he was asked to speed up".

Rustled (imp. & p. p.) of Rustle.

Rustling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rustle.

Rustle (v. i.) 使勁幹；急忙行動；覓食；偷牲口；（綢衣，樹葉，紙等）沙沙作響；發出沙沙聲 To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.

He is coming; I hear his straw rustle. -- Shak.

Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. -- Shak.

Rustle (v. i.) To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about. [Slang, Western U.S.]

Rustle (v. i.) To steal; -- used of livestock and esp. of cattle.

To rustle up, To gather or find by searching; as, to rustle up some food for supper.

Rustle (v. t.) 急速弄到；把（牛等）趕攏；偷（牛，馬等）；使沙沙作響 To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.

Rustle (n.) 沙沙聲，窸窣聲 [the S] A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.

When the noise of a torrent, the rustle of a wood, the song of birds, or the play of lambs, had power to fill the attention, and suspend all perception of the course of time. -- Idler.

Rustle (n.) A light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind [syn: rustle, rustling, whisper, whispering].

Rustle (v.) Make a dry crackling sound; "rustling silk"; "the dry leaves were rustling in the breeze".

Rustle (v.) Take illegally; "rustle cattle" [syn: rustle, lift].

Rustle (v.) Forage food.

Rustler (n.) One who, or that which, rustles.

Rustler (n.) A bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person. [Slang, Western U.S.]

Rustler (n.) Someone who steals livestock (especially cattle) [syn: rustler, cattle thief].

Rustless (a.) 不生鏽的 Free from rust.

Rustless (a.) Without rust [ant: {rusted}].

Rusty (a.) 生鏽的；鐵鏽色的，赭色的 [Z]；褪了色的；破舊的；過時的 Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.

Rusty (a.) Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect.

[Hector,] in this dull and long-continued truce, Is rusty grown. -- Shak.

Rusty (a.) Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.

Rusty (a.) Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Rusty words." -- Piers Plowman.

Rusty (a.) Rust-colored; dark. "Rusty blood." -- Spenser.

Rusty (a.) Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.

The rusty little schooners that bring firewood from the British provinces. -- Hawthorne.

Rusty (a.) (Bot.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.

Rusty (a.) Covered with or consisting of rust; "a rusty machine"; "rusty deposits".

Rusty (a.) Of the brown color of rust [syn: {rust}, {rusty}, {rust- brown}].

Rusty (a.) Impaired in skill by neglect [syn: {out of practice(p)}, {rusty}].

Rusty (a.) Ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: {hoary}, {rusty}].

Rut (n.) (Physiol.) Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.

Rut (n.) Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.

Rutted (imp. & p. p.) of Rut.

Rutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rut.

Rut (v. i.) To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.

Rut (v. t.) To cover in copulation. -- Dryden.

Rut (n.) A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.

Rut (v. t.) To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.
Rut (n.) A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels).

Rut (n.) A settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut" [syn: rut, groove].

Rut (n.) Applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity [syn: estrus, oestrus, heat, rut] [ant: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrum, anoestrus].

Rut (v.) Be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals.

Rut (v.) Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil" [syn: furrow, rut, groove].

Ruta-baga (n.) (Bot.) A kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a Swedish turnip. See Turnip.

Rutaceous (a.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to plants of a natural order ({Rutaceae) of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu.

Rutate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of rutic acid.

Ruth (v.) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness. [Poetic] "They weep for ruth." -- Chaucer. "Have ruth of the poor." -- Piers Plowman.

To stir up gentle ruth, Both for her noble blood, and for her tender youth. -- Spenser.

Ruth (v.) That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight. [Obs.]

It had been hard this ruth for to see. -- Chaucer.

With wretched miseries and woeful ruth. -- Spenser.

Ruth (n.) United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948) [syn: Ruth, Babe Ruth, George Herman Ruth, Sultan of Swat].

Ruth (n.) The great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.

Ruth (n.) A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn: commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos].

Ruth (n.) A book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died [syn: Ruth, Book of Ruth].

RUTH, () D.A. Harrison at Newcastle University. Real-time language based on LispKit. Uses timestamps and real-time clocks.

["RUTH: A Functional Language for Real-Time Programming", D. Harrison in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987, pp.297-314].

Ruth, () A friend, a Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, whose father, Elimelech, had settled in the land of Moab. On the death of Elimelech and Mahlon, Naomi came with Ruth, her daughter-in-law, who refused to leave her, to Bethlehem, the old home from which Elimelech had migrated. There she had a rich relative, Boaz, to whom Ruth was eventually married. She became the mother of Obed, the grandfather of David. Thus Ruth, a Gentile, is among the maternal progenitors of our Lord (Matt. 1:5). The story of "the gleaner Ruth illustrates the friendly relations between the good Boaz and his reapers, the Jewish land system, the method of transferring property from one person to another, the working of the Mosaic law for the relief of distressed and ruined families; but, above all, handing down the unselfishness, the brave love, the unshaken trustfulness of her who, though not of the chosen race, was, like the Canaanitess Tamar (Gen. 38:29; Matt. 1:3) and the Canaanitess Rahab (Matt. 1:5), privileged to become the ancestress of David, and so of 'great David's greater Son'" (Ruth 4:18-22).

Ruth, () Drunk; satisfied.

Ruth, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina

Population (2000): 329

Housing Units (2000): 155

Land area (2000): 0.438794 sq. miles (1.136471 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.438794 sq. miles (1.136471 sq. km)

FIPS code: 58420

Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37

Location: 35.383224 N, 81.943365 W

ZIP Codes (1990):

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Ruth, NC

Ruth

Ruthenic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with ruthenious compounds.

Ruthenious (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with ruthenic compounds.

Ruthenium (n.) (Chem.) A rare element of the light platinum group, found associated with platinum ores, and isolated as a hard, brittle steel-gray metal which is very infusible. Symbol Ru. Atomic weight 103.5. Specific gravity 12.26. See Platinum metals, under Platinum.

Ruthenium (n.) A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group; it is found associated with platinum [syn: ruthenium, Ru, atomic number 44].

Ruthenium

Symbol: Ru

Atomic number: 44

Atomic weight: 101.07

Hard white metallic transition element. Found with platinum, used as a catalyst in some platinum alloys. Dissolves in fused alkalis, and is not attacked by acids. Reacts with halogens and oxygen at high temperatures.

Isolated in 1844 by K.K. Klaus.

Ruthful (a.) Full of ruth; as:

Ruthful (a.) Pitiful; tender.

Ruthful (a.) Full of sorrow; woeful.

Ruthful (a.) Causing sorrow. -- Shak. -- Ruth"ful*ly, adv.

Ruthful (a.) Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses [syn: contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful].

Ruthless (a.) 無情的，殘忍的；硬著心腸下定決心的，堅決的 Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless.

Their rage the hostile bands restrain,

All but the ruthless monarch of the main. -- Pope.-- {Ruth"less*ly}, adv. -- {Ruth"less*ness}, n.

Ruthless (a.) Without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty" [syn: {pitiless}, {remorseless}, {ruthless}, {unpitying}].

Rutic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, rue ({Ruta); as, rutic acid, now commonly called capric acid.

Rutilant (a.) Having a reddish glow; shining.

Parchments . . . colored with this rutilant mixture. -- Evelyn.

Rutilate (v. i.) To shine; to emit rays of light. [Obs.] -- Ure.

Rutile (n.) (Min.) 金紅石（一種寶石） A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brookite.

Rutile (n.) A mineral consisting of titanium dioxide in crystalline form; occurs in metamorphic and plutonic rocks and is a major source of titanium.

Rutilian (n.) (Zool.) Any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Rutila and allied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle ({Pelidnota punctata).

Rutin (n.) (Chem.) A glucoside resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. Rutin is found in the leaves of the rue ({Ruta graveolens) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition.

Rutinose. () A disaccharide present in glycosides.

Note: It is prepared from rutin by hydrolysis with rhamnodiastase. 6-O-[alpha]-L-rhamnosyl-D-glucose; C12H22O10.

Rutter (n.) A horseman or trooper. [Obs.]

Such a regiment of rutters Never defied men braver. -- Beau. & Fl.

Rutter (n.) That which ruts.

Rutterkin (n.) An old crafty fox or beguiler -- a word of contempt. [Obs.] -- Cotgrave.

Ruttier (n.) A chart of a course, esp. at sea. [Obs.]

Ruttish (a.) Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious. -- Shak. -- Rut"tish*ness, n.

Ruttish (a.) Feeling great sexual desire; "feeling horny" [syn: aroused, horny, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned on(p)].

Ruttle (n.) A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty of breathing; a rattle. [Obs.]

Rutty (a.) Ruttish; rutting; lustful.

Rutty (a.) Full of ruts; as, a rutty road.

Rutty (a.) Rooty. [Obs.] -- Spenser.

Rutty (a.) Full of ruts; "rutty farm roads" [syn: rutted, rutty].

Rutylene (n.) (Chem.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H18, of the acetylene series. It is produced artificially.

Ryal (a.) Royal. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Ryal (n.) See Rial, an old English coin.

Rial (n.) [From Royal.] A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth. [Spelt also ryal.] -- Brande & C.

Ryder (n.) A clause added to a document; a rider. See Rider.

Ryder (n.) A gold coin of Zealand [Netherlands] equal to 14 florins, about $5.60 (ca. 1910).

Ryder, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota

Population (2000): 92

Housing Units (2000): 67

Land area (2000): 0.325148 sq. miles (0.842129 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.005043 sq. miles (0.013061 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.330191 sq. miles (0.855190 sq. km)

FIPS code: 69460

Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38

Location: 47.917309 N, 101.673557 W

ZIP Codes (1990):

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Rye (n.) (Bot.) A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass ({Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.

Rye (n.) A disease in a hawk. -- Ainsworth.

Rye grass, Italian rye grass, (Bot.) See under Grass.