ruler 
matical Instrument for drawing parallel lines at deter- 
minate distances from one another, 
rulership (ro'ler-ship), it. [< ruler + -ship.'] 
The office or power of a ruler. [Rare.] 
Much more unlikely things have come to pass than that 
this languid young man should be called to the helm of 
affairs, the virtual mlcrship of the British Empire. 
T. W. Uigyiiwn, Eng. Statesmen, p. 288. 
rulesset, An obsolete form of ruleless. 
rule-work (rol'werk), . In printing, compo- rum 1 (rum), w 
5266 
Ruly & rightwise. a roghe man of bore, 
He spake neuer dispituosly, ne spiset no man ; 
Ne warpit neuer worde of wrang with his mowthe. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3b88. 
sition in which many rules are used, as in ta- 
bles of figures ; table-work. 
ruling (ro'ling), . [Verbal n. of rulel, V.] 1. 
The determination by a judge or court of a 
point arising in the course of a trial or hear- 
ing. 2. The act of making ruled lines; also, 
such lines collectively. 
ruling (ro'ling), p. a. [Ppr. of rfel, .] Hav- 
ing control or authority ; governing; reigning; 
chief; prevalent; predominant. 
The ruling passion, be it what it will, 
The ruliiuj passion conquers reason still. 
Pope, Moral Essays, ill. 153. 
Ruling elder. See elderl, S. = Syn. Prevailing, Pre- 
dominant, etc. (see prevalent), controlling. 
ruling-engine (ro'ling-en'jin), . A machine 
for ruling diffraction gratings. The ruling is per- 
formed by a fine diamond-point, the spacing of the lines 
being accomplished by the most refined micrometer- 
screw mechanism. (See grating'*, 2, and micrometer.) The 
new ruling-engine at Johns Hopkins University has pro- 
duced gratings ruled with from 10,000 to 20,000 lines per 
inch, 6 inches in diameter, with faces formed on a radius 
of more than 21 feet, and having better definition than 
any ever before made. Such engines must be placed in 
2. Orderly; well-regulated. 
I meane the sonnes of such rash sinning sires 
Are seldome sene to runne a ruly race. 
Gascoigne, Complaynt of Phylomene (bteele Olas, etc., 
led. Arber, p. 118). 
[Abbr. of rumbullion or ritin- 
booze. The F. rhum, rum = Sp. ron = Pg. rom = 
It. rum = D. G. Dan . rum = Sw. rom, rum ; are all 
from E.] 1. Spirit distilled from the juice of 
the sugar-cane in any form, commonly from the 
refuse juice left from sugar-making, but often 
from molasses, as especially in countries where 
the sugar-cane is not produced. Rum has always 
been especially an American product, the most esteemed 
varieties being made in the West Indies and named from 
the place of manufacture, as Jamaica rum, Antigua. Gre- 
nada, or Santo Cruz rum. It is also made in New England. 
rumbooze 
The wild wind rang from park and plain, 
And round the attics rumbled. 
Tennyson, The Goose. 
2t. To murmur. 
The people cryed and rambled up and down. 
Chaucer, Monk's Tale, 1. 546. 
3. To move with a deep, hoarse, thundering 
or jarring sound ; roll heavily and noisily. 
Greta, what fearful listening ! when huge stones 
Humble along thy bed, block after block. 
Wardsitorth,To the River Greta. 
Old women, capped and spectacled, still peered through 
the same windows from which they had watched Lord 
Percy's artillery rumble by to Lexington. 
Lowell, Cambridge Thirty Years Ago. 
4t. To roll about ; hence, to create disorder or 
confusion. 
When love so rumbles in his pate, no sleep comes In his 
eyes. Suckling, Love and Debt. 
as'nearly equable a temperature as can be attained" as rum'-* (rum), a. and n. [Early mod. E. route ; 
any sensible expansion or contraction during their opera- 
tion defeats their purpose. 
rulingly (ro'ling-li), adv. In a ruling manner ; 
so as to rule ; controllingly. Imp. Diet. 
ruling-machine (vo'ling-nia-shen"),. 1. A ma- 
chine used by engravers for ruling in flat tints, 
etc. The cutting of the lines is done by a tool wilh a 
diamond-shaped point. Mechanism for spacing and for 
lifting the cutting-tool when the carriage which supports 
the tool is to be shifted in its parallel ways are the other 
features of the machine. 
2. A machine used for ruling parallel colored 
lines upon writing-paper, or upon paper for the 
manufacture of blank-books; a paper-vuler. 
Fountain-pens with mechanism for spacing and for draw- 
ing them simultaneously upon the surface to be ruled, or 
in some cases endless bands (each a fine thread passing 
through coloring material) arranged so that a part of each 
band is brought into contact with the paper to be ruled, 
mechanism for spacing the lines, intermittent feed for the 
paper, and mechanism for lifting the ruling-bands from 
the paper when the latter is fed forward are character- 
istics of such machines. In ruling columns on pages for 
blank-books ruling-pens are employed. 
II. trans. To cause to make a deep, rattling 
or jarring sound ; rattle. 
And then he rumbled his money with his hands In his 
trowsers' pockets, and looked and spoke very little like a 
thriving lover. Trollope. 
distilled liquor or strong alcoholic rumble (rum'bl), . [< ME. rombel; < rumble, .] 
uch used in reprobation, with refer- * A dee P' he vy, continuous, and more or less 
rattling or jarring sound, as of thunder; a low, 
jarring roar. 
Clamour and rumble, and ringing and clatter. 
Tennyson, Maud, xxvil. 
2f. Confused reports ; rumor. 
O stormy peple ! unsad and ever untrewe ! 
Ay undiscreet and chaunging as a vane, 
Uelyting ever in rombel that is newe. 
Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 941. 
3t. Confusion; disorder; tumult. 
Aboute whome he found muche heauinesse, rumble, 
haste and businesse, carriage and conueyaunce of her 
stuffe into sainctuary. Sir T. More, Works, p. 48. 
4. A revolving cylinder or box in which arti- 
l:inii is a spirit extracted from the Juice of sugar-canes, 
. . called k ill-Devil in New England ! 
G. Warren, Description of Surinam (1661) (quoted in 
[The Academy, Sept. 5, 1885, p. 156). 
2. Any 
drink : much used in reprobation. 
ence to intemperance: as, the evils of rum. 
Hum I take to be the name which unwashed moral- 
ists apply alike to the product distilled from molasses and 
the noblest juices of the vineyard. Burgundy "in all its 
sunset glow " is rum. Champagne, "the foaming wine of 
Eastern France," is rum. 0. W. Holmes, Autocrat, viil. 
Dickens, Pickwick. 
supposed to be of Gipsy origin: cf. Gipsy rom, 
a husband, Bommani, a Gipsy: see Pom, Horn- 
many. ~] I. a. Good; fine; hence, satirically, in 
present use, queer; odd; droll. [Slang.]" 
And the neighbours say, as they see him look sick, 
" What a rum old covey is Hairy-faced Dick ! " 
covey is nairy-iaceu UICK : , . 5 ," , , ~ 
Larham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 158. cles are placed to be ground, cleaned, or pol- 
"Rum creeters is women," said the dirty-faced man. 
Dickens, Pickwick, xiv. 
"We were talking of language. Jasper." . . . "Yours 
must be a rum one? " " Tis called Rommany." 
G. Borrow, Lavengro, xvii. 
II. n. Any odd, queer person or thing ; an 
oddity. [Slang.] 
No company comes 
But a rabble of tenants, and rusty, dull rums. 
Swift, The Grand Question Debated. 
It seems that though the books which booksellers call 
rums appear to be very numerous, because they come 
oftener in their way than they like, yet they are not really 
so, reckoning only oue of a sort. 
ished by mutual attrition . Grinding- or polish- 
ing-material is added according to the need of 
the case. 5. A seat for servants in the rear of 
a carnage. Also rumble-tumble. 
A travelling chariot with a lozenge on the panels, a dis- 
contented female in a green veil and crimped curls on the 
rumble, and a large and confidential man on the box. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xiv. 
rumble-gumption (rum'bl-gump'shon), w. 
Same as rumgumption. 
Ye sud hae stayed at hame, an' wantit a wife till ye gath- 
ered rnair rummelgumption. 
Hogg, Perils of Man, I. 78. (Jamieson.) 
ruling-pen (ro^nng-pen),^." A form of pen rumal (ro'mal), n. [Also roomal, romal; < 
AicAofa, Literary Anecdotes, V. 471. nimbler (rum'bler), i. [< rumble + -erV) A 
used fordrawing lines of even thickness. Itcom- 
monly consists of two blades which hold the ink between 
who or a thing which rumbles. Imp. 
Same as 
B^fMVSSft&i ronb^tmW. (rum'bl-tum'bl), , 
Especially fa) A silk square used as a head-dress, etc. 
(o) A square shawl of goat's hair. 
a, fixed blade ; l>. 
Ruling-pen. 
adjustable blade : c, acljustin: 
'hich screws into a socket at a 
screw ; t % handle. 
They [Thugs] had arranged their plan, which was very 
simple. If the darkness suited, Miumshoodeen Khan was 
to address a question to Rowley Mellon, who would stoop 
rumble, 5'. 
From the dusty height of a rumble-tumble affixed to 
Lady Selina Vipont's barouche . . . Vance caught sight 
of Lionel and Sophy. 
them, the distance apart of the points being adjusted by 
a screw to conform to the desired width of line. Some 
sides. 
rullichie (rul'i-chi), . See rollicliie. 
rullion (rul'yon), . [Also rewelyns, rowlyngis, 
"E. riveling, ' ' " -**-* 
~~~dal: see rlV( 
shoe made of untanned leather. 
'mer, What will he Do with it? i. 15. 
'Hlynge, 
of rum- 
rattling or 
ruling-pens consist of three needle-points "brought close T>,,_ ':',.. -, , ' jarring sound ; a rumble. The peculiar rum- 
together at their ends ; others are formed of a point of Rumanian (ro-ma ni-an),a.and n. [Also Eon- b ii ng of the bowels is technically called bor- 
&. chaunelsto hold and conductthe inkafongthe maman; < Itumama, also written Boumania (F. borygmux. 
Q^O \~v;riLv,*> J" ? f i aa^t At the llolse of the Damping of the hoofs of his strong 
mania, a kingdom (since 1881 ) of horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling 
r^/ ?e fr:iiMAr*^,-?S8.-^a;; TSSKSS&^SSS&lK t33aSS^~~~sSR 
Shoemade^nrta^n^^;^^"^ 20 *' A cl^^K^ert si, J" H T tW ^ rumblingly (rum'bling-li), a*. In a ambling 
is were united under a single tributary prince, manner; with a rumbling sound. 
nTTctae Ofthe members of a race in rum-Wossom (rum'blos"um), n. A pimple on 
southeastern Europe, Latinized in the second the nose caused b ? excessive drinking; a rum- 
Called by th. 
Ihe dress of the lad was completely in village fashion 
yet neat and handsome in appearance. He had a jerkin 
of grey cloth slashed and trimmed, with black hose of the 
same, with deer-skin mllions or sandals, and handsome 
silver spurs. gcott, Monastery, xxix. 
see ruei, .] Pitiable; miserable. 
With that cam n knaue with a confessoures face 
Lene and rewlycne with leggys ful smale. 
rumb, M. See rhumb. 
rum-barge (rum'barj), n. [Cf. 
A warm drink. HalUwell. [Prov. 
rumboH (rum'bo), n. [Prob. short for rumbooee: 
seerumbooze. Cf. rumbullion.'] A strong liquor: 
same as rum 1 or rumbullion. 
Hawkins the boatswain and Derrick the quartermaster 
. . . were regaling themselves with a can of rumbo, after 
the fatiguing duty of the day. Scott, Pirate, xxxix. 
(rum'bo), . fCf. ntmbowline.'] Rope 
stolen from a dockyard. Admiral Smytlt. 
rumb ze (rum-bos'), . [Early mod. E. also 
' ' Kse ' rom !> se > me ^wse, also rambooze, 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 151 
(ro'li), a. [< ME. ruly; < r7 e l + -,/l or 
Cf. unruly.] 1 . Conforming to rule ; not 
unruly; acting rightly ; righteous. 
and more or less jarring sound : as, the thun- 
der rumbles. 
But whan they cam to wan water, 
It now was rumbling like the sea. 
Bitiie Archie (Child's Ballads, VI. 96). 
This bowse is as good as Home boicse. 
Barman, Caveat for Cursetors, p. 118. 
This Bowse is better then Rum-bowse, 
It sets the Can a gigling. 
Brome, Jovial Crew, if. 
