RUFF
\ɹˈʌf], \ɹˈʌf], \ɹ_ˈʌ_f]\
Definitions of RUFF
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
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The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.
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To trump.
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A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children.
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Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name.
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An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
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Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
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A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.
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A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.
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A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.
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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.
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A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.
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To ruffle; to disorder.
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To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
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To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.
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Alt. of Ruffe
By Oddity Software
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A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
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The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.
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To trump.
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A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children.
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Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name.
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An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
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Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
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A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.
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A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.
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A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.
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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.
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A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.
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To ruffle; to disorder.
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To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
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To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.
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Alt. of Ruffe
By Noah Webster.
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A large plaited or fluted collar; anything like such a collar; a growth of feathers around the neck of a bird or of hair around the neck of an animal; an old World sandpiper; the female called reeve; also, a kind of pigeon; in card playing, the act of trumping.
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In card playing, to trump when one has no card of the suit led.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An ornament of frills, formerly worn round the neck: anything plaited: a species of wading bird, the male of which has the neck surrounded in the breeding season with a ruff of long feathers:-fem. REEVE.
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To ruffle: to trump at whist instead of following suit.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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n. A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted;— something formed in -plaits or pickered, as the front of a shirt;— a native fish allied to the perch;— a bird allied to the wood-cock and sandpiper — the male has a tuft of feathers around the neck during the breeding season;- a certain species of pigeon;- in cards, act of trumping cards of another suit.
