ruffle 
But fortunately his ill tidings came too late to ruffle the 
tranquillity of this most tranquil of rulers. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 206. 
As I sat between my cousins, I was surprised to find 
how easy I felt under the total neglect of the one and the 
semi-sarcastic attentions of the other Eliza did not mor- 
tify, nor Georgiana ruffle me. 
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than the roll, and used on certain occasions as 
a mark of respect. 
The very drums and fifes that played the rufflen as each 
rugged 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xxi. ruffle 5 * (ruf 1), 
IBB very urums ;uiu mes inai piayeu me ri/m<>* as each T> e -it TVH * i 
battalion passed the President had called out the troops KU1US S pills. Pills of air 
to numberless night alarms, had sounded the onset at TUgl (rug), n. [Formerly 
Vkksburg and Antietam. The Century, XXXIX. 570. Sw. rugg, rough entangl 
6. To furnish or adorn with ruffles : as, to ruf- 
fle a shirt. 
f'l), r. t. ; pret. and pp. ruffled, ppr. 
ruffling. [Sec ruffe*, .] To beat the ruffle 
on : as, to ruffle a drum. 
A thousand lamd heteroclites more, that cozen the ruffled (ruf'ld), rt. [< rnfflf 1 + -rd"-.] Having 
world with a gilt spur and a ruffled boot. a ruffle ; ruffed : as, the ruffled grouse. 
ruffleless (ruf '1-les), a . [< i'nfflei' + -trx* 
ins no ruffles. Imp. THct. 
rufflement (ruf'1-ment), n. [truffle! -f 
The act of ruffling. Imp. Diet. 
ruffler 1 (ruf'ler), n. [< ruffle 1 + -'.] 
chine for making ruffles, sometimes forming an 
attachment to a sewing-machine. 
Dekker, Gull's Hornbook. 
To ruffle one's feathers or plumage, (a) To irritate 
one ; make one angry ; disturb or fret one. (6) To get ir- 
ritated, angry, or fretted. Farrar. 
II. in trans. To be in disorder; be tossed 
about; hence, to flutter. 
On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, 
Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. 
A ma- 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iii. 135. ruffler'- 3 (ruf'ler), n. [Early mod. E. also ruf- 
ruffle 1 (ruf'l), u. [< MD. ruy/et, wrinkle, a ruf- /<*V < LG. ruffelcr(ct. Dan. ruffcr), a pander, 
fle, < ruyffelen, wrinkle, rumple, ruffle: see ruf- P im P- < riiffeln, pander, pimp: see niflle*.] 1. 
fle 1 , r. Cf. ruff 1 , n.] 1 . A'strip of any textile 
material drawn up at one edge in gathers or 
plaits, and used as a bordering or trimming; a 
full, narrow flounce ; a frill ; a ruff. The term is 
used for such a plaited strip when much narrower than a 
ruff, even when worn around the neck, but it especially ap- 
plies to the wrist and to the front of the shirt-bosom, as In 
men's dress of the early part of the eighteenth century. 
Such dainties to them [poets], their health it might hurt, 
It 's like sending them ruffle* when wanting a shirt. 
Goldsmith, Haunch of Venison. 
2. Something resembling a ruffle in form or po- 
sition, (a) The top of a boot. 
Not having leisure to put off my sliver spurs, one of the 
rowels catched hold of the ruffle of my boot, and, being 
Spanish leather, and subject to tear, overthrows me. 
B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, iv. 4. 
(6) In ornith., same as rufi, 2 (a), (c) The string of egg-cap- 
sules of the periwinkles, whelks, and related gastropods. 
(d) In meek., a series of projections, often connected by a 
web, formed on the inner face of a flange of a metal gud- 
. 
A bully; a swaggerer; a ruffian; a violent and 
lawless person. 
Here 's a company of rufflm, that, drinking in the tavern, 
have made a great brawl. 
Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. 
Both the Parlament and people complain'd, and de- 
manded Justice for those assaults, if not murders, don at 
his own dores by that crew of Rufflert. 
Milton, Eikonoklastes, iv. 
Specifically 2t. A bullying thief or beggar; 
a blustering vagabond. 
One or two of the younger plants (which had not ac- 
quired a rufuloitt tiller) 
Jour, of Bot , Brit, and For., 1883, p. 214. 
Pills of aloes and myrrh. 
'" merly also rugg, rugge; < 
rugy, rough entangled hair; prob. from 
an adj. cognate with AS. ruli, E. rmigli : see 
rough 1 . Cf. ruggy. rugged. The Ice'l. rfigg, 
coarse hair, goes with rag, not with rug.] If. 
A rough, heavy woolen fabric ; a kind of coarse, 
nappy frieze, used especiallyfor the garments 
Hav- f the poorer classes. 
To cloathe Summer matter with Winter Rugge would 
make the Header sweat. X. Ward, Simple Cooler, p. 87. 
As they distill the best aqua-vitae, so they spin the choi- 
cest rug in Ireland. Holinthed, Chron. 
Let me come in, yon knaues; bow dare you keepe me 
out? Twas my gowne to a mantle of rugge I had not put 
you all to the pistoll. 
Chapman, Blind Beggar of Alexandria. 
2. A thick, heavy covering, ordinarily woolen, 
and having a shaggy nap; a piece of thick 
nappy material used for various purposes, (a) 
A cover for a bed ; a blanket or coverlet. 
I wish'd 'em then get him to bed ; they did so, 
And almost smother'd him with ruggg and pillows. 
Fletcher and Shirley, Night- Walker, v. 1. 
(ft) A covering for the floor ; a mat, usually oblong or 
square, and woven In one piece. Rugs, especially those 
of Oriental make, often show rich designs and elaborate 
workmanship, and are hence sometimes used for hangings. 
I stood on the rug and warmed my hands, which were 
rather cold with sitting at a distance from the drawing 
room flre. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xlx. 
Is it a polished floor with > uge, or is It one of those 
great carpets woven In one piece ? 
Mrs. Oliphant, Poor Gentleman, xliii. 
, a gi- . 
geon fora wooden shaft or roller, and fitted to a corre- nifflereat, n. [<f*JMf*+ -erf 2 .] Rough; bois- 
sponding series of recesses in the end of such shaft or terous. [Rare.] 
roller, to secure a rigid attachment of the flange and pre- .,. 
'J 1 , 1 " 06 wneru 8 'yenl glystnng, with Soutwynds rufflered 
nnffliiig. Staiuhurst, Conceites (ed. Arber), p. 137. 
ruffleryt, '. [< ruffler^ + -y (see -fry).'] Tur- 
bulence ; violence. [Rare.] 
A Ruffeler goeth wyth a weapon to seeke Bernice, saying 
M hath bene a Seruitor in the wars, and beggeth for his 
reliefe. But his chiefest trade Is to robbe poore wayfar- 
ing men and market women. 
Fratrrnitii of I'agatonds (1561). 3. A lap-robe; a thick shawl or covering used 
The Ruffler ... is first In degree of this odious order '" driving, 
and is so called in a statute made for the punishment of -against the 
lagabonds. Harmon, Caveat for Cursetors, p. 14. shaggy dog. 
(mf'ler), n. Same as ruffcr. 
driving, traveling, etc., as a protection 
cold. 4. A rough, woolly, or 
vent its turning except as the shaft or roller turns with it, 
3. Disquietude or discomposure, as of the mind 
or temper; annoyance; irritation. 
Make it your daily business to moderate your aversions 
and desires, and to govern them by reason. This will guard 
you against many a ruffle of spirit, both of anger and sor- 
row. Watts, Doctrine of the Passions, 23. ffl . . .,,. . 
In this state of quiet and unostentatious enjoyment r H m i. n S \ ru - '-. 
there were, besides the ordinary rubs and ruffles which 
disturb even the most uniform life, two things which par 
ticularly chequered Mrs. Butler's happiness. 
Scott, Heart of Mid Lothian, xlvii. 
Neptune's ruffles, a retepore. 
ruffle 2 * (ruf'l), r. [< ME. ruffelen, be quarrel- 
some, < MD. niffelen = LG. 'ruffcln = G. dial. ,, 
nt/eln, pander, pimp ; freq. of MD. roffen, pan- ' l ? ai ^ st ' "' p -'- 
der ; cf. ruffian. In some senses this verb is con- 
fused with fig. uses of ruffle 1 .] I. intrnm. 1. 
To act turbulently or lawlessly; riot; play the 
bully; hence, to bluster. 
To Britaine I addrest an army great, perdy 
To quaile the Picts, that ruffled in that ile. m-a.it 
Mir. for Mags., I. 317. ruff-wneel (ruf hwel), n. 
A valiant son-iu-law thou shall enjoy ; 
One fit to bandy with thy lawless sons, 
To ruffle in the commonwealth of Rome. 
Shale., Tit. And., i. 1. 313. 
stone-breaker. 
2. To put on airs; swagger: often with an in- ruffy-tuffy (ruf 'i-tuf *i), 
definite it. *- /.. . ... 
Lady, I cannot ruffle it in red and yellow. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 3. 
In a handsome suit of Tressiliin's livery, with a sword 
by his side, and a buckler on his shoulder, he looked like 
a gay ruffling serving-man. Scott, Kenilworth, xiii. 
3. To be rough or boisterous: said of the wea- 
ther. 
Alack, the night conies on, and the bleak winds 
Do sorely ruffle. Shale., Lear, ii. 4. 304. 
II. trans. To bully ; insult ; annoy. 
Can I not go about my private meditations, ha ! 
But such companions as you must ruffle me? 
Fletcher, Wit without Money, v. 3. 
Shoughs, water-rugs, and deml-wolves are clept 
All by the name of dogs. Shalr., Macbeth, iii. 1. 94. 
5. A kind of strong liquor or drink. 
And (in a word) of all the drinks potable 
/'" / is most puisant, potent, notable. 
Rug was the Capital! Commander there, 
And his I.ievtcnant General! was strong Beere. 
John Taylor, The Certain Travailes of an Uncertain Jour 
[ney (1653). 
Braided rug. See braid i. 
rug- (rug), r. /. [< ME. ruggen, roggen, a sec- 
ondary form of rokkfn, shake, rock : see rog, 
rock*.] To pull roughly or hastily ; tear; tug. 
[Obsolete or Scotch!] 
So ruthe were it to rug the and ryue the in ropes. 
York Playt, p. 286. 
The gude auld times of rugging and riving ... are 
come back again. Scott, Waverley, xlii. 
[Cf. ritffe, roiigliii- 1 .] Woods rug 2 (rug), . [< rug*, r.] A rough or hasty 
for Cursetors, pull ; a tug.- To get a rug, to get a chance at some- 
thing desirable; make a haul. |('olloq.) 
He knows . . . who got his pension rug, 
Or quickened a reversion by a drug. 
Pope, Satires of Donne, iv. 134. 
Sir John . . . sat in the last Scots Parliament and voted 
for the Union, having gotten, it was thought, a rug of the 
compensations. Scott, Redgauntlet, letter xi. 
rug* (rug), a. [Perhaps <rug 1 .] Snug; warm. 
ffiilliu-ell. [Prov. Eng.] 
rug 4 t, n. Another form of rig 1 , a dialectal va- 
riant of ridge. 
But neere ioynctlye brayeth with rufflert/e rumlmled 
^tua. Stanihurst, .Eneid, iii. 
" [Verbal n. of ruffle 1 , r.] 
Ruffles in general ; also, a length of manufac- 
tured ruffle, as prepared for sale : as, three yards 
of ruffling Dimity ruffling, a cotton textile, usually 
white, crinkled or plaited in weaving, the plaits following 
the length of the stulf . It is cut across and hemmed, then 
cut again to the width desired for the ruffle, and sewed 
fast with the plaits retained. 
nanst, i 
or bushes. Harman, Caveat 
p. 115. [Thieves' slang.] 
ruff-peckt, Bacon. [Thieves' slang.] 
Here 's ruffpetk and casson, and all of the best. 
And scraps of the dainties of gentry cofe's feast. 
Brmne, Jovial Crew, ii. 
An ore-crushing mill 
for the pieces which will not feed into the 
usual crusher: now superseded by the more 
modern stone-breakers or ore-crushers. See 
Chapman, Gentleman Usher, v. 1 
Powder'd bag- wigs and rufy-tu/y heads 
Of cinder wenches meet and soil each other. 
Keats, Cap and Bells, st 80. 
ruffy-tuffy (ruf 'i-tuf"i), rtdi: [Also rufty-tnt'ti/ : 
cLruffy-t\tff<i,<i.~\ In disorder; helter-skelter ; 
pell-mell. 
To sweare and stare until we come to shore, 
Then rifty tufty each one to his skore. 
Breton, Pilgrimage of Paradise, p. 16. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., i. 
[< rufflf*. r.] A brawl; a 
companion. 
ruffle 2 t (ruf'l), . 
quarrel ; a tumult. 
Sometime a blusterer, that the ruffle knew 
Of court, of city. Shale., Lover's Complaint, I. :,v 
The captain was so little out of humour, and our com- 
pany was so far from being soured by this little ruffle, that 
Ephraim and he took a particular delight in being agree- 
able to each other for the future. 
Steele, Spectator, Xo. 132. 
ruffle 3 (ruf '!),. [Also ruff: origin uncertain: 
cf. Pg. ruflti, ruf it. the roll of a drum.] .)/////.. 
a low vibrating beat of the drum, less loud 
kle ; a crease or plait ; a corrugation : various- 
ly applied, as to folds of mucous membrane 
or skin, the cross-bars of the hard palate, the 
wrinkles on a shell or a bird's bill or an insect's 
wing-covers, etc. : usually in the plural Rugse 
of the stomach. See stomach. Ruga of the vagina, 
numerous small transverse folds of the vaginal mucous 
membrane, extending outwardly from the columns, 
rugate (ro'gat), a. [= Sp. riigado, < NL. niga- 
tHS, wrinkled, < L. ruga, a wrinkle, fold: see 
ruga.] Having ruga?; rugous or rugose; cor- 
rugated; wrinkled. 
wrinkle : see ruga.'] 
Now the gravest and worthiest Minister, a true Bishop t 
of his fold, shall be revil'd and ruffd by an insulting and ruf US (ro'fus), (I. [= Sp. rufu = Pg. nnro = 
only.Caiion-wife Prelate, asjf_ he were some i slight -paltry f - >'uffi>, < L. rufux, red, reddish: see red 1 .] nigeH, n. [< L. 
pf a dull-red color ; red but somewhat deficient A wrinkle. [Rare.] 
in chroma : thus, a bay or chestnut horse is Nowe [none) mae on hem [,,, pll , ( , dc ,,ew olde w, 
rufous; \ enetian red is rufous. It enters into yspronge 
the specific name of many animals, technical- Wo1 auffre be. 
Iv called ritfus, nifcseens, etc.-Rufous-chinned Palladiut, Husbondrle (E. E. T. S.X P. 144. 
flncht. Seejiiichi. Rufous-headed falcon. Scu.rVifcon. ruge a (roj), r. [Prob. for "rudge, var. of ridge; 
ruft (raft), n. A dialectal form of rift*. Dun- not < ritge 1 . n.. which was never in vernacular 
.'/'''. use.] To wrinkle, ffalliirelt. [Prov. Eng.] 
ruftie-tuftiet, rufty-tuftyt, . Same HS <#>/- rugget, An obsolete variant of ridge. 
rugged (rug'ed), n. [< ME. rugged ruggud, 
rufulOUS (rii'fu-lus), a. [< \j. riifuliix. rather ruggyd, < Sw. rugg, shaggy hair (see rwiyi),' + 
red, dim. of ruf us, red: sec rufous. \ In -aiil. -ell-. Cf. mgM-\ 1. Having a rough,' hairy 
and to*., somewhat rufous. surface or nap ; shaggy : bristly; ragged. 
