ruddle 
of all other sorts of red earth, the ruddle of .Egypt and 
Atfrickf is fittest for carpenters; for if they strike their 
line upon timber with it ... it will take colour and be 
marked verie well. Uollaiul, tr. of Pliny, juotv. 6. 
2f. Ruddiness; redness. 
His skin, like blushes which adorn 
The bosom of the rising morn, 
All over ruddle is, and from 
His flaming eyes quick glances come. 
Eater's Poeins (1G'J7), p. 11. (Hattiwell.) 
Leinnian ruddle. See Lemnian. 
ruddle 1 (rtid'l), v. t. ; pret. and pp. ruddled, ppr. 
ruddling, [(ruddle 1 , .] To mark with ruddle. 
Over the trap-doors to the cellars were piles of market- 
gardeners' sieves, ruddled like a sheep's back with big red 
1 etters. Alayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 570. 
ruddle 2 (rud'l), . A dialectal variant of rid- 
dle*. 
The holes of the sieve, ruddle, or try. 
Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. SB. (Trench.) 
ruddle 2 (rud'l), v. t. [See ruddle*, .] To sift 
together; mix as through a sieve. 
ruddle 3 ! (rud'l), . t. [A var. of raddle 1 ; prob. 
duetomdrfie 2 .] To raddle; interweave; cross- 
plait, as twigs or split sticks in making lattice- 
work or wattles. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
ruddleman (rud'1-man), . ; pi. ruddlemeit 
(-men). Same as reddleman. 
Besmeared like a ruddleman. 
Burton, Anat of Mel., p. 4*i7. 
ruddock (rud'ok), M. [Formerly also ruddoc, 
rudock; also dial, reddock, raddock ; < ME. rutl- 
docke, ruddok, roddok, < AS. rndduc, ruduc, a 
ruddock ; appar. with dim. suffix -uc , E. -ock, < 
rudu, redness (see rud 1 , .); otherwise < W. 
rhitddog = Corn, ruddoc, a redbreast ; but these 
may be from the AS., and are in any case ult. 
connected with rurf 1 , ruddy. ~\ 1. The bird 
Erythacus rubecula, the robin-redbreast of Eu- 
rope. See robin 1 , 1. 
The tame ruddok and the coward kyte. 
Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls, 1. 349. 
The ruddock would, 
With charitable bill, . . . bring thee all this. 
Shalt., Cymbeline, iv. 2. 224. 
That lesser pelican, the sweet 
And shrilly ruddock, with its bleeding breast. 
Hood, Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, st. 55. 
2f. A gold coin: also called red ruddock or yoldeii 
ruddock. [Old slang.] 
In the second pocket he must have his reif ruddocke* 
ready, which he must give unto his lawier, who will not 
set penne to paper without them. 
Chaise of Change (1585). (Hares. ) 
If one bee olde, and have silver haires on his beard, so 
he have gulden ruddocks in his bagges, nee must bee wise 
and honourable. Lyly, Midas, ii. 1. 
The greedie Carle came there within a space 
That ownd the good, and saw the Pot behiude 
Where Ruddocks lay, . . . but Ruddocks could not flnde. 
Turberville, Of Two Desperate Men. 
There be foure Sea-captaines. I believe they be little 
better then pirats, they are so flush of their rudockt. 
Heywood, Fair Maid of the West (Works, II. 277). 
3. A kind of apple. Howell. (Hnlliwell.) 
ruddy (rud'i), a. [< ME. ruddy, rody, rodi, rudi, 
< AS. "rudig, rudi, reddish, ruddy, < rudu (= 
Icel. rotlti, redness), red, redness, <re6dan (pret. 
pi. rudon), make red, < redd, red : see riufl-, red 1 ."] 
1. Of a red color; reddish; inclining to red; 
rosy: as, a ruddy blaze; ruddy clouds; ruddy 
gold ; ruddy cheeks. 
Than hadde the lady grete shame, and wax all rody, but 
noon ne knewe the cause. Merlin(E. E. T. S.X ii. 181. 
Now he [David] was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful 
countenance, and goodly to look to. 1 Sam. .xvi. 12. 
You are my true and honourable wife, 
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops 
That visit my sad heart. Shak., J. C., ii. 1. 289. 
Like a furnace mouth 
Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame. 
Milton, P. L., ii. 889. 
The ruddier orange and the paler lime. 
Cowper, Task, iii. 573. 
His face was ruddy, his hair was gold. 
Tennyson, The Victim. 
2. Glowing; cheery; bright. 
With the best will, no man can be twenty-five for ever. 
The old ruddy convictions deserted me, and, along with 
them, the style that tits their presentation and defence. 
X. L. Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque, Ded. 
Ruddy diver. Same as ruddy due*. Ruddy duck. 
See di#2. Ruddy gold, gold so alloyed as to be reddish 
in color, used in the jewelry and goldsmiths' work of Cash- 
mere and Burma. S. K. Handbook, Indian Arts. Ruddy 
plover. See plover. =Syn. 1. Ruddy, Rubicund, Rosy. 
Ruddy indicates a fresh and healthy red upon the human 
skin, or, by extension, upon skies, etc. Rubicund indi- 
cates an unnatural red in the face or some part of it, as 
the cheeks or the nose ; it is especially associated with high 
living or intemperance in drink. Rosy generally indi- 
cates a charming, blooming red : as, rosy cheeks ; but it 
is occasionally used in a bad sense. 
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ruddy (rud'i), v. t.; pret. and pp. ruddied, ppr. 
ruddi/iny. [< rutldi/, .] To make red or ruddy. 
[Rare.]' 
O'er Roslin all that dreary night 
A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam ; . . . 
It glared on Roslin's castled rock, 
It ruddied all the copse- wood glen. 
Scott, L. of L. M., vi. 2,-J. 
ruddy-rudder (rud'i-rud"er), . The long-eared 
sunfish, Lepomiy auritutt: so called from the red 
color of the tail. [New Jersey and Delaware.] 
rude (rod), a. [< ME. rude, < OF. rude, F. /</< 
= Pr. Pg. It. rude = Sp. rudo, < L. rudis, rough, 
raw, rude, wild, untilled ; root unknown. From 
the same source are rudiment, erudite, erudition, 
etc.] 1. Bough; crude; unwrought; unfash- 
ipned; ill-fashioned; without finish or shape- 
liness: as, a rude mass of material. 
And I my selfe sawe a masse of rude goulde (that is to 
say, such as was neuer molten), lyke vnto suche stones as 
are founde in the bottomes of ryuers, weighinge nyne 
ownces. 
Peter Martyr, tr. in Eden's First Books on America 
l(ed Arber), p. 72. 
Be of good comfort, prince ; for you are boru 
To set a form upon that indigest 
Which he hath left so shapeless and so rude. 
Shalt., K. John, v. 7. 27. 
This rude plot, which blind chance (the ape 
Of counsel and advice) hath brought forth blind. 
Chapman, All Fools, i. 1. 
It was the winter wild, 
While the heaven-born child 
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. 
Milton, Nativity, 1. 81. 
2. Lacking cultivation, refinement, or elegance ; 
clumsy; uncouth: as, rude verses ; rude art. 
He sung, in rude harsh-sounding rhymes. 
Shot., K. John, iv. 2. 150. 
One example may serve, till you review the .Knri* in 
the original, unblemished by my rude translation. 
Dryden. 
His rude oratory roused and melted hearers who listened 
without interest to the labored discourses of great logi- 
cians and Hebraists. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. 
With untaught rudest skill 
Vexing a treble from the slender strings 
Thin as the locust sings. 
O. W. Holmes, Even-Song. 
3. Mean; humble; little known or regarded; 
hence, as said of persons, low by birth or posi- 
tion. 
Al were it that myne aunccstres weren rude, 
Vet may the hye God, and BO hope I, 
tirante me grace to lyven vertuously. 
Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 318. 
Jest not with a rude man, lest thy ancestors be dis- 
graced. Ecclus. viii. 4. 
From a rude isle his ruder lineage came. 
Scott, Vision of Don Roderick, The Vision, st. S3. 
4. Barbarous ; uncivilized ; unpolished ; igno- 
rant. 
The Spanyard that nowe is is come from as rude and 
savage nations as they [the Irish J. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
Though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge. 
2 Cor. xi. 6. 
When men were but rude in sea-causes in regard of the 
great knowledge which we now haue. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, To the Reader. 
Among the rudest savages personal interests are very 
vaguely distinguished from the interests of others. 
H. Spencer, Data of Ethics. 91. 
Over the seas 
With a crew that is neither rude nor rash. 
Tennyson, The Islet. 
5. Having a fierce or cruel disposition ; fero- 
cious; sanguinary; savage; brutal. 
Strength should be lord of imbecility, 
And the rude sou should strike his father dead. 
Shak., T. and C., 1. 3. 115. 
but the Johnstones were wondrous rude. 
When the Biddes-bum ran three days blood ! 
Lads of Wamphray (Child's Ballads, VI. 172). 
Now timely sing, ere the rude bird of hate 
Foretell my hopeless doom. Milton, Sonnets, i. 
6. Marked by or expressing fierceness or sav- 
ageness ; ferocious, fierce, or cruel in quality. 
The werwolf ful wigtli went to him euene, 
With a rude roring as he him rende wold. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1851. 
He leide a-boute hym so grym strokes and rude that 
noon durste hym a-bide, but dlsparbled a-brode fro hym 
as from a wode lyon in rage. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 196. 
Even thy song 
Hath a rude martial tone, a blow in every thought! 
WhMier, To J. P. 
7. Ill-bred ; boorish ; uncivil ; discourteous ; im- 
polite. 
A rude despiser of good manners. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. 92. 
There was, indeed, in far less polish'd days, 
A time when rough rude man had naughty ways. 
Burns, Rights of Woman. 
rudeness 
Young Branghton, who had been apparently awed by the 
presence of so fine a gentleman, was again himself, rude 
and familiar. Hiss Burney, Evelina, xlvii. 
8. Marked by incivility; contrary to the re- 
quirements of courtesy: as, rude conduct; a 
nitli' remark. 
RutHan, let go that rude uncivil touch ! 
Shak., T. O. of V., v. 4. 60. 
I'm quite ashamed 'tis mighty rude 
To eat so much but all 's so good. 
Pope, Imi. of Horace, II. vi. 206. 
9. Rough; tempestuous; stormy: as, a rude 
gale ; rude weather. 
Therade sea grew civil at her [a mermaid's] song. 
Shale., M. N. D., ii. 1. 152. 
The storm 
Of his rude misfortunes is blown over. 
Middleton (and others). The Widow, iii. 3. 
The rude inclemency of wintry skies. 
Cowper, Truth, 1. 138. 
10. Robust; sturdy; rugged; vigorous. 
Here and there smiled a plump rosy face enough ; but 
the majority seemed under-sized, under-fed, utterly want- 
ing in grace, vigour, and what the penny-a-liners call 
"rude health." Kingsley, Yeast, xiii. 
How it disgusts when weakness, false-refined, 
Censures the honest rude effective strength. 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 149. 
When people in the rudest physical health are sick of life, 
they go to her for the curative virtue of her smiles. 
S. Lanier, The English Novel, p. 55. 
Rude respiration. See respiration. =SyiLl. Ill-shaped, 
raw, uncouth, unformed. 7 and 8. Vulgar, loutish, boor- 
ish, ill-bred, insolent, surly, churlish, gruff, brusk. 9. 
Harsh, inclement, violent, turbulent. 
rude (rod), adr. [< WfE.rude; < rude, a,'] Rudely. 
Then to the abbot, which that balled wag, 
Hath Oaffray spokyn rude and bustesly. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3257. 
And Caledon threw by the drone, 
And did her whittle draw, man ; 
And swoor fu' rude, thro' dirt and blood, 
To mak' it guid in law, man. 
Burns, American War. 
rude-growing (rod'gr6*ing), . Rough; wild. 
Whose mouth is cover'd with rude-growing briers. 
Shak., Tit. And., ii. 3. 199. 
.- -,,-ldv. [<ME. 
liclie; < rude + -fy 2 .] In i 
Roughly ; clumsily ; unskilfully : 
rudely (rod'li), adv. [< ME. rudely, ruidly, rude- 
liclie ; < rude + -ly 2 ~ 
Roughly ; clumsily ; uns 
an object rudely formed. 
a rude manner, (a) 
illy : as, work rudely done ; 
Thai war full grete and rudely wroght, 
Bot tharfore thai forsuke tham noght, 
Bot sone, when thai thir nailes had, 
Furth thai went with hert ful glad. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 88. 
I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty. 
Sltak., Rich. III., i. 1. 18. 
The savage who in his nocturnal prowlings guides him- 
self by the stars has rudely classified these objects in their 
relations of position. ./. Fiske, Cosmic Phllos., I. 28. 
(i) Inelegantly ; awkwardly. 
If yow be borne or brought vp in a rude co(u]ntrie, ye 
shall not chose but speake rudelie. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 117. 
(e) With offensive bluntness or roughness; uncivilly; Im- 
politely. 
Who spekithe to the in any maner place, 
Rudely cast nat thyn ye adowne, 
But with a sadde chiere loke hym in the face. 
Babees Bonk (E. E. T. S.), p. 26. 
You ne'er consider whom you shove, 
But rudely press before a duke 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. vi. 59. 
(d) Impetuously ; fiercely ; savagely. 
He romed, he rared, that roggede alle the erthe ! 
So ruydly he rappyd at to ryot hym selvene ! 
Marie Arthure (E. E. T. 3.), 1. 785. 
They found the king's army in order to receive them, 
and were so rudely attacked that most of those who had 
penetrated into the camp were left dead upon the spot. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 123. 
(e) Violently ; stonnily ; boisterously : as, the wind blew 
rudely. 
Ther com rennynge so grete a water, ... so depe and 
brode and ther-to blakke, that com down fro the sides of 
the mounteynes so rudely, that ther was noon so hardy 
but he ther-of hadde drede. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 350. 
(/t) Vulgarly; broadly; coarsely. 
Al speke he never so rudeliche or large. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 734. 
rudeness (rod'nes), . [< ME. rudenesne; < rude 
+ -Menu.'] The state or quality of being rude, 
(a) Crudeness ; roughness ; clumsiness. 
I thought he slept, and put 
My clouted brogues from off my feet, whose rudeness 
Auswer'd my steps too loud. 
Shak., Cymbeline, iv. 2. 214. 
(6) Inelegance ; lack of refinement or polish ; uncouth- 
ness; awkwardness. 
The rudenes of common and mother tonges is no bar 
for wise speaking. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 117. 
All the antique fashions of the street were dear to him ; 
even such as were characterized by a rudeness that would 
naturally have annoyed his fastidious senses. 
Haifthorne, Seven Gables, xi. 
(c) Humble position ; rusticity ; low life. 
