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RUDELY, ado. In a rude manner; fiercely: tumultu¬ 
ously. 
Whether to knock against the gates of Rome. 
Or ruddy visit them in parts remote. 
To fright them ere destroy. Shakspeare. 
Without exactness ; without nicety ; coarsely. 
I that am not shaped for sportive tricks, 
I that am ruddy stampt, and want love’s majesty 
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph. Sha/cspeare. 
Unskilfully. 
My muse, though rudely , has design’d 
Some faint resemblance of his godlike mind. Dry den. 
Violently; boisterously. 
With this truncheon he so rudely stroke 
Cymocles twice, that twice him forced his foot revoke. 
Spenser. 
RUDEN, a small island in the Baltic, on the coast of 
Pomerania, near the mouth of the Peene. It is almost en¬ 
tirely surrounded by shoals and sand-banks, and is said to 
have been in former ages of larger extent. It is still defended 
by a fort. Lat. 53. 40. N. long. 13. 48. E. 
RUDEN, See Ruthen. 
RUDENESS, s. Coarseness of manners; incivility. 
This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit. 
Which gives men stomach to digest his words 
With better appetite. Shakspeare. 
Ignorance; unskillful ness.—What he did amiss was rather 
through rudeness and want of judgment, than any malici¬ 
ous meaning. Hayward. —Artlessness; inelegance; coarse¬ 
ness. 
Let be thy bitter scorn. 
And leave the rudeness of that antique age 
To them that lived therein in state forlorn. Spenser. 
Violence ; boisterousness. 
The ram, that batters down the wall. 
For the great swing and rudeness of his poise. 
They place before his hand that made the engine. 
Sha/cspeare. 
Sforminess; rigour.—You can hardly be too sparing of 
water to your housed plants; the not observing of this, des¬ 
troys more plants than all the rudenesses of the season. 
Evelyn. 
RUDENHAUSEN, a small town of Bavarian Franconia. 
Population 800; 19 miles east of Wurzburg. 
RU'DENTURE, s. [French.] In architecture, the figure 
of a rope or staff, sometimes plain and, sometimes carved, 
wherewith the flirtings of columns are frequently filled up. 
Dailey. 
There are also rudentures in relievo, laid on the exterior of 
pilasters not fluted; an instance of which we have in the 
church of St. Sapienza at Rome. 
RUDERARY, adj. \rudera, Lat.] Belonging to rubbish. 
Johnson. v 
RUDERA'TION, s. In architecture, the laying of a 
pavement with pebbles or little stones. Bailey. 
RUDERSBERG, a small town of Germany, in Wirtem- 
berg, in the department of the Rems and Fils, bailiwic of 
Schorndorf, with 1100 inhabitants. 
RU'DESBY. s. An uncivil turbulent fellow. A low 
word, now quite unused. 
I must be forced 
To give my hand, opposed against my heart. 
Unto a mad-brain rudeshy, full of spleen. Sha/cspeare. 
Out of my sight, rudeshy be gone. Sha/cspeare. 
RUDESI1EIM, a small town of the west of Germany, in 
the duchy of Nassau, on the Rhine, with 2000 inhabitants. 
The wine produced in the environs is accounted the best 
Rhenish, and is sold at a very high price; 15 miles west of 
Mentz, and 1 north of Bingen. 
RUDGELEY, a market town of England, in the county 
of Stafford, situated near the south bank of the river Trent. 
The town is in general well built, and many of the houses 
are even elegant. The church is an ancient building, dedi¬ 
cated to St. Augustine, and consists of two low aisles, of 
equal size. At the west end rises a handsome tower. Rudge- 
ley carries on a considerable trade, and its situation is well 
adapted for this purpose, being on the great road from Lon¬ 
don to Lancashire and Holyhead, and the grand Trunk canal, 
which opens so extensive an inland communication through¬ 
out the kingdom, passing near the town. The chief manu¬ 
factures are hats and felts, but many other articles are also 
made here. Here is a great annual fair, principally for 
horses of the coach breed. The town is governed by two 
constables, who are chosen by the inhabitants annually. 
The manor of Rudgeley was anciently the property of a 
family who either gave name to the town, or derived their 
own from it. In the reign of Edward III. some of this 
family were sheriffs of the county. Subsequently the manor 
belonged to the bishops of Litchfield, and was alienated to 
the crown in 1547, by bishop Sampson. Market on Tues¬ 
day ; fairs June5 and 6, anu October 21. Population 2213; 
9^ miles east-south-east of Stafford, and 131 north-west of 
London. 
RUDGWICK, a parish of England, in Sussex; 5 miles 
from Horsham. Population 837. 
RUDHAM, East, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 6 
miles west-by-south of Fakenham. Population 569. 
RUDHAM, West, a village of England, in Norfolk, 
half a mile distant from the foregoing. 
RUDHAM, a small town of Kerman, in Persia; 60 miles 
north-west of Kerman. 
RUDHEATH, a hamlet of England, in Cheshire; 4 miles 
from Middlewich. 
RUDIG, a small town of the north-west of Bohemia; 23 
miles east-south-east of Carlsbad. Population 800. 
RUDIGERSHAYN a village of Prussian Saxony, in the 
Eichsfeld, ceded by Hanover in 1815. 
RU'DIMENT, s. [rudiment , Fr. rudimentum, Latin.] 
The first principles; the first elements of a science.—Could 
it be believed, that a child should be forced to learn the 
rudiments of a language, which he is never to use, and neglect 
the writing a good hand, and casting accounts? Locke .— 
The first part of education.—He was nurtured where he was 
born in his first rudiments, till the years of ten, and then 
taught the principle of musick. Wotton. The skill and 
rudiments austere of war. Phillips .—The first, inaccurate, 
unshapen beginning or original of any thing. 
So looks your monarch on this early fight, 
Th’ essay and rudiments of great success. 
Which all-maturing time must bring to light. Dryden. 
The sappy boughs 
Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments 
Of future harvest. Phillips. 
To RU'DIMENT, v. a. To ground ; to instruct in the 
rudiments of any science. Not in use. —It is the right dis¬ 
cipline of knight-errantry, to be rudimented in losses at 
first, and to have the tyrocinium somewhat tart! Gayton. 
RUDIME'NTAL. adj. Initial; relating to first princi¬ 
ples.—Your first rudimental essays in spectatorship were 
made in my shop, where you often practised for hours. 
Spectator. 
RUDIS, a knotty, rugged stick, which the praetor, among 
the Romans, gave the gladiators, as a mark of their freedom 
and dismission. 
The rudis seems to have been bestowed both on slaves and 
freedmen; with this difference, that it procured for the 
former no more than a discharge from any farther perform¬ 
ance in public, upon which they commonly turned lanistce, 
spending their time in training up young fencers; but the 
latter, who had hired themselves out for these shows, were 
restored to a full enjoyment of their liberty. Rennet , 
Rom. Ant. 
They were hence called rudiarii, and had a custom of 
hanging up their arms in the temple of Hercules, the patron 
of their profession, and were never called out again without 
their consent. . ■ 
RUDKIOPING, 
