rumbooze 
Piot, .1 common cant word used by French clowns, and 
other tippling companions ; it signifies rum^booze, as our 
gipsies eall good-guzzle, and conies from TUIU, bibo. 
Urquhart, tr. of Eabelais, ii. 1, note. 
Rambooz A compound drink, in most request at Cam- 
bridge, and is commonly made of eggs, ale, wine, and 
sugar ; but in summer of milk, wine, sugar, and rose- 
water. Bltntnt's Qlossography. 
rumbowline, . See ronibowline. 
rumbowling, n. [Cf. rumbullion.] Grog: so 
called by sailors. 
rum-bud (i'um'bud),H. Arum-blossom. [Slang.] 
Redness and eruptions generally begin with the nose; 
. . . they have been called rum-buds when they appear 
in the face. 
Dr. Bush, Effects of Ardent Spirits. (Encyc. Diet.) 
rumbullion (rum-bul'yon), n. [Appar. an ex- 
tended form of rumble, imitatively varied, and 
in sense 2 confused with other words, as rum- 
boozeorrumboi. Hence rum 1 . Cf. rumbowling.] 
1. A great tumult. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
2. A strong distilled liquor. See the quotation, 
and rum 1 . 
The chief f udling they make in the island is Rumbullion, 
alias Kill-Divil, and this is made of sugar canes distilled, 
a hot, hellish, and terrible liquor. 
MS. Description of Barbados (1651), quoted in 
[The Academy, Sept. 5, 1885, p. 155. 
rumbustical (rum-bus'ti-kal), a. Same as rum- 
bustious. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
rumbustious (rum-bus'tyus), a. Same as rum- 
bustious. [Prov. Eng.]" 
The sea has been rather rumbustious, I owu ; but then, 
. . . the land makes us ample amends. 
F oote, Trip to Calais, i. 
rum-cherry (rum'cher"i), n. The wild black 
or cabinet cherry, Primus serotina, of eastern 
North America. In the forest it grows from 60 to 90 
feet high, and affords a fine, hard, light-brown or red 
timber, turning darker with exposure, much esteemed 
for cabinet-work, inside finish, etc., and now becoming 
scarce. This tree, sometimes wrongly called P. Virgini- 
ana, is the source of the officinal wild-cherry bark. Its 
small, black, sweetish, and bitter astringent fruit is used 
to flavor liquors (whence the name). 
Rumelian (rij-me'lian), a. and n. [Also Bou- 
melian; < Rumelia, also Roumelia (F. Roumelie), 
+ -an.] I. a. Of or pertaining to Rumelia 
(originally, in a loose sense, the European pos- 
sessions of the Sultan, sometimes excepting 
Rumania, Servia, and Bosnia ; in a restricted 
sense, the region south of Bulgaria). A Turkish 
eyalet of Rumelia was formed about 1836 from parts of 
Albania and Macedonia. Eastern Rumelia was an au- 
tonomous province on the Black Sea, formed in 1878, and 
united to Bulgaria in 1885. 
II. n. A native or an inhabitant of Rumelia, 
especially in the restricted sense. [Rare.] 
rumen (ro'men), .; pi. rumina (ro'mi-na). [< 
L. rumen, the throat, gullet: see ruminate.] 
1. The cud of a ruminant. 2. Thepauneh or 
first stomach of a ruminant ; the largest of the 
four compartments of the ruminant stomach. 
It is the one which, with the reticulum or honeycomb, is 
eaten under the name of tripe. Also called fardiny-bay. 
See cuts under Ruminantia and Tragulus. 
Rumex (ro'meks), n. [NL. (Linnaeus, 1737), < 
L. rumex, f., sorrel (B. acetosa, etc.), so called 
from the shape of the leaves, < rumex, m., a kind 
of lance.] A genus of 
apetalous plants of the 
order Polygonacex, type of 
the tribe Bumicese. it Is 
characterized by its six stamens 
and its six- or rarely four-parted 
perianth, with the outer seg- 
ments unchanged in fruit, but 
the three inner ones erect and 
very much enlarged, often bear- 
ing a conspicuous grain or tu- 
bercle resulting from a thicken- 
ing of the midrib. The includ- 
ed nut is sharply three-angled, 
but without wings. About 150 
species have been enumerated, 
but the real number is much 
less. They are widely scattered 
through north temperate regions, 
with a few native to the tropics 
and southern hemisphere. Many 
are common weeds of cultivated 
grounds, and some are almost 
cosmopolitan. They are usual- 
ly perennial deep-rooting herbs, 
rarely tall shrubs. They bear 
united stipules (ocrese), which 
are often transparent, at first 
sheathing, soon torn and vanish- 
ing. The flowers are in small 
bracted clusters at the nodes, of- 
ten forming terminal racemes or 
panicles. In the section Lapa- 
thum, the dock, the leaves are 
commonly large, undivided, and 
cordate or rounded at the base ; 
in Acetnm, known as sorrel, they 
are small, commonly hastate, and 
permeated by an acid juice. The 
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root is astringent, and has tonic, alterative, and anti- 
scorbutic properties. BesHes dock and sorrel, see ca- 
naif/re, wild pieplant (under joe-plant*, bloodu'ort. butter- 
dock, yreensauce, monk's-rhubarb, mountain rhubarb ; also 
cuts under atropal and obtuse. 
rumfustian (rum-fus'tyan), n. A hot drink 
made of eggs, beer, gin, slierry, cinnamon, nut- 
meg, sugar, etc. 
rumgumption (rum-gump'shon), n. [Also rinn- 
ruminative 
liarities of the digestive system certain characteristic 
dental and cranial features : thus, there are no upper in- 
cisors, except in the camel family, in any of the living ru- 
minants, and the under incisors bite against a callous pad. 
At the present time these animals are found in nearly all 
parts of the world (not, however, in the Australian) ; they 
are comparatively poorly represented in America, and oc- 
cur in the greatest numbers, both of individuals and of 
species, in Africa. Also called Pecora. See also cut un- 
der Trayitlus. 
ble-gumptinii,riimmclguiptioii,ruiitmiiguniptioii; ruminantly (ro'mi-nant-li), adv. In the man- 
perhaps < r; 2 , good, excellent, + gumption: ner of a ruminant ; by means of rumination, 
see gumption.] Rough common sense; keen- ruminate (ro'mi-nat), v. ; pret. and pp. rtimi- 
ness of intellect; understanding. [Prov. Eng. 
and Scotch.] 
They need not try thy Jokes to fathom, 
They want rumgumption. 
Beattie, Address. (Jamietan.) 
rumgumptious (rum-gump'shus), a. [< rum- 
gumpti(on) + -ous.] Sturdy in opinion ; rough 
and surly ; bold ; rash. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
rum-hole (rum'hol), n. A grog-shop; a gin- 
mill : so called in opprobrium. [Colloq., U. S.] 
Rumiceae (ro-mis'e-e), n. pi. [NL. (Carl Anton 
MS, pp. 
= Sp. 
nated, ppr. ruminating. [< L. ruminatus, 
of ruminare or ruminari (> It. ruminare = Bp. 
rumiar = Pg. ruminar = Pr. romiar, rominar = 
OF. F. ruminer, F. dial, roumir, rouinger, run- 
get; roincer, roinger, ranger), chew the cud, ru- 
minate, < rumen (rumin-), the throat, gullet.] 
1. in trans. 1 . To chew the cud, as a ruminant ; 
practise rumination. 
Ruminating flocks enjoy the shade. 
Cowper, Heroism, L 82. 
2. To muse ; meditate ; think again and again ; 
Meyer, 1840), < Rumex (Rumic-) + -ese.] A tribe ponder: as, to ruminate on misfortunes. 
of apetalous plants of the order Polygonaceee. 
It is characterized by a six-parted or rarely 'four-parted 
perianth, six or nine stamens, short recurved styles dilated 
into broadly peltate or fringed stigmas, flowers in clusters 
at the nodes, attended by a sheathing or concave bract, 
and leaves alternate on the stem or radicle. It includes 
the 4 genera Rheum, Oxyria, Rumex, and Emex, plants 
mainly of the northern hemisphere, sometimes shrubby, 
and generally with conspicuous or very large radical leaves. 
See cuts under Rumex and rhubarb. 
rumina, n. Plural of rumen. 
ruminal (ro'mi-nal), a. [= F. ruminal, < L. rumi- 
nalis, ruminating',' < rumen (-in-), the throat, gul- 
let: see ruminate.] Same as ruminant. [Rare.] 
Imp. Diet. 
This is that I iudge of that text of the Psalmist, about 
the whiche (maye it please the King of Heauen) that euen 
as my penne hath written, my soule may alwayes rumi- 
nate. Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 108. 
He ... ruminates like an hostess that hath no arith- 
metic but her brain to set down her reckoning. 
Shot., T. and C., lii. 3. 252. 
II. trans. 1. To chew again. 2. To turn over 
in the mind; muse on; meditate over and over. 
Conduct me where, from company, 
I may revolve and ruminate my grief. 
Shot., 1 Hen. VI., v. 5. 101. 
If in debt, let him ruminate how to pay his debts. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 535. 
ruminant (ro'mi-nant), a. and n. [= F. rumi- ruminate (r6'mi-nat), . [< L. ruminatus, pp. of 
nant = Sp. rumiaiiie = Pg. It. ruminante, < L. ruminare 01 ruminari : see ruminate, v.] Inbot., 
ruminan(t-)s, ppr. of ruminare, chew the cud: 
see ruminate.] I. . 1. Ruminating; chewing 
the cudj belonging to the Buminantia, or hav- 
appearing as if chewed: noting a structure of 
the endosperm (albumen) of a seed which gives 
a mottled appearance to its section, and which 
results from the infolding of a dark inner layer 
of the seed-coat into the lighter-colored matter 
of the endosperm, as in the nutmeg. Goebel. 
[< ruminate + 
ing their characters. 2. Hence, thoughtful; 
meditative; quiet. 
Marriage . . . had not even filled her leisure with the 
ruminant joy of unchecked tenderness. ruminated (ro mi-na-ted), a. 
George Eliot, Middlemarch, xxviii. -c(l' 2 .] Same as ruminate. 
II. . An animal that chews the cud; any ruminatingly (ro'mi-na-ting-li) 
member of the Ruminan tin. natmg manner ; ruminautly. 
Ruminantes (ro-mi-nan'tez), n. pi. [NL., pi. rumination (rp-mi-na shon), n. [= F. rumina- 
In a rumi- 
of L. ruminan(t-)s, chewing the cud: see ru- . .. 
minant.] The original form of Ruminantia. <>(-), chewing the cud: see ruminate.] I. 
Vic(/-d'Azyr, 1792. 
Ruminantia (ro-mi-nan'shi-a), n. pi. 
[NL., 
neut. pi. of L. rum inan(t-)s, chewing the cud: 
see ruminant.] A series or section of artiodac- 
tyl ungulate mammals; the ruminants or ru- 
minating animals, or hoofed quadrupeds that 
chew the cud. All are even-toed and cloven-footed, 
and have a com- 
plex stomach of 
several compart- 
ments, in the larg- 
est one of which 
food is received 
without being 
chewed, to be af- 
terward regurgi- 
tated or thrown up 
into the mouth, 
there chewed at 
the animal's lei- 
sure, and then 
swallowed again. 
In nearly all liv- 
ing ruminants the 
stomach has four compartments, or is quadripartite : these 
are the rumen, paunch, or plain tripe; the reticulum, or 
honeycomb tripe; the omasum, psalterium, or manyplies; 
and the abomasum or rennet-bag, succeeding one another 
in the order here given. The two former belong to the car- 
diac division of the stomach, the two latter to the pyloric. 
The families of living ruminants whose stomachs are thus 
perfectly quadrilocular are (1) the Qirqffida, or camelo- 
pards ; (2) the Saiifidse (if regarded as distinct from the 
Bovidie); (3) the Bomdee, or cattle, including also sheep and 
goats and all kinds of antelopes excepting (4) the Antilo- 
capridse; and (5) the Cervida, or deer family. In the Ca- 
melidse, or camels and llamas, the stomach is imperfect- 
ly four-parted. In the 
Tragulidx it is tripar- 
tite, no psalterium be- 
ing developed. Several 
extinct families are be- 
lieved on other grounds 
(their stomachs being 
unknown) to have be- 
longed to the Ruminan 
Typical Ruminant Stomach (Sheep). 
Ru, rumen or paunch ; Ret, reticulum or 
honeycomb, showing alveoli ; Ps, omasum, 
psalterium, or manyplies; A, abomasum or 
t unopened ; other divisions in section.) 
The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the 
cud. The food of ruminants is entirely herbaceous, and 
consists chiefly of grass. This is rapidly cropped by graz- 
ing, and hastily swallowed, mixed with saliva. When its 
appetite is satisfied, the ruminant stands still, or oftener 
lies down, generally on its side. Then occurs a spasmodic 
action of the abdominal muscles and of the diaphragm, like 
a hiccup, which forces a bolus of grass, sodden in the fluids 
of the paunch, up the gullet and into the mouth, to be mas- 
ticated or chewed at leisure. During this second chewing 
the cud is mixed with more saliva, thoroughly ground to 
pulp, and in this semi-fluid state it is finally swallowed. 
The cropped grass, when first swallowed, passes indiffer- 
ently into either the rumen or the reticulum (which are 
in fact only two compartments of the cardiac division of 
the stomach, the gullet entering the stomach just at their 
junction), and in theordinary peristaltic actionof thestom- 
ach the fodder passes back and forth from one to the other. 
But there is an arrangement of muscular folds by means 
of which a canal may be formed that leads directly from 
the gullet past the rumen and reticulum into the psalte- 
rium, and by this channel the food, when returned after 
the rumination, may be conducted directly to the third 
stomach. Water drunk passes easily into any of the four 
stomachs according to circumstances. Neither the paunch 
nor the honeycomb is ever completely emptied of food ; 
they have been found partly filled with sodden fodder in 
animals which have starved to death. It does not appear, 
as has been supposed, that the reticulum is specially 
concerned in modeling the boluses which are to be regur- 
gitated. The regurgitation is effected by the reversed peri- 
staltic action of the gullet. During the spasmodic action 
by which the sodden mass is driven against the opening 
of the gullet, and some of it forced into the gullet to be 
thrown up. it is prevented from passing into the psalterium 
partly by the narrowness of the opening between the retic- 
ulum and the psalterium, and partly by the resistance of- 
fered to the coarse mass by the close-pressed psalterial 
leaves or layers, which act like a fine grating. But when 
the mass is swallowed again in its now pulpifled and semi- 
fluid state, and is directed to the psalterinm by the con- 
formation of the parts, it readily soaks in through the 
psalterial layers, and thus reaches the abomasum or fourth 
stomach, where it is finally chymifled by the action of the 
gastric juice, to which it is not before subjected. Rumi- 
nation in man, when it is pathological, is also called mery- 
cism. 
o. nwnunliMuiteare Typical Ruminant Dentition (sheep). 2 - T he act of ruminating or meditating; a 
maxilla; />*, toothless pre- musing or continued thinking on a subject; 
i>, <=,>:>, three incisors of meditation or reflection. 
collectively contrasted 
with those ungulates 
which, though artiodac- 
tyl,do not ruminate, and 
are known as Omnivora, 
as the swine and hippo- 
potamus. The average size of ruminants among mammals 
is large, a sheep being one of the smaller species; they are ruminative (ro mi-na-tiv), . 
perfectly herbivorous, anil have in addition to the pecti '"" ~" 
maxillu, .-, .-, 
left side ; c, left lower canine, like an 
incisor and usually called one : fnt, 
upper and lower premolars ; 
upper and lower molars. 
It is a melancholy of mine own; . . . extracted from 
many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of 
my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a 
most humorous sadness. Shalt., As you Like it, iv. 1. 19. 
[< ruminate + 
1. Ruminant : disposed to rumination ; 
