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with a mixture of Swedish and Danish, and the manners and 
usages are the same as those of the north of Germany. The 
peasants, however, were not emancipated from a state of 
vassalage till 1806. This island was long subject to Sweden, 
but was acquired by Prussia, with the rest of Pomerania, in 
1814. The chief town is Bergen. To Rugen belong se¬ 
veral smaller islands lying around it, such as Hiddensee, 
Rimen, Unmang, and Vilm. 
RUGENWALD, a small town of Prussian Pomerania in 
the government of Coslin, on the small river Wipper. It 
contains 2500 inhabitants, who have some trade ; but the 
harbour is too small to admit any thing but barges, so that 
ships must lie in the road. The greatest part ot this town 
was burned down in 1722, after which it was rebuilt, and is 
now a very neat place; 23 miles south of Stolpe, and 33 
east-north-east of Colberg. Lat. 54. 99. N. long. 16. 23. 
45. E. 
RUGGA, a village of Tunis, in Africa, called anciently 
C arago ; 40 miles south of Kairwan. 
RUG-GOWNED, adj. Wearing a coarse or rough 
gown. 
I had rather meet 
An enemy in the field, than stand thus nodding 
Like to a rug-gown'd watchman. Beaum. 
RU'GGED, adj. [ruggig, Swedish ; rugueux, old Fr. 
Originally, our word was ruggy. “ Ruggy hairs.”] Rough! 
full of unevenness and asperity. 
Nature, like a weak and weary traveller, 
Tir’d with a tedious and rugged way. Denham. 
His hair is sticking ; 
His well proportion’d beard made rough and rugged. 
Like to the summer’s corn by tempest lodg’d. Shakspeare. 
Savage of temper; brutal.—The greatest favours to such 
an one neither soften nor win upon him ; neither melt nor 
endear him, but leave him as hard, rugged, and uncon¬ 
cerned as ever. South. —Stormy ; turbulent. 
Now bind my brows with iron, and approach 
The rugged'st hour that time and spite dare bring. 
To frown upon th’ enraged Northumberland. Shakspeare . 
Rough or harsh to the ear. 
Wit will shine 
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. Dry den. 
Sour; surly; discomposed. 
Sleek o’er your rugged looks. 
Be bright and jovial ’mong your guests to-night. Shakspeare. 
Rough; shaggy. 
Through forests wild. 
To chase the lion, boar or rugged bear. Fairfax. 
RUGGED ISLE, a small island near the south coast of 
Ireland, and county of Cork. Lat. 51. 30. N. long. 9. 
2. W. 
RU'GGEDLY, adv. In a rugged manner.—Of all man¬ 
kind, methinks, Mr. Keil uses you the most ruggedly. Bp. 
Nicholson. 
RU'GGEDNESS, s. The state or quality of being rug¬ 
ged.—He finds, instead of soft lawns and shady thickets, 
nothing more than uncultivated ruggedness. Johnson .— 
Roughness ; asperity. Rudeness; coarseness of behaviour. 
—They of that soft sex, with whom I have conversed, have 
accused me of too great severity and ruggedness towards 
them. Maync’s Ans-w. to Cheynel. —The northern Europe, 
until some parts of it were subdued by the progress of the 
Roman arms, remained almost equally covered with the 
ruggedness of primitive barbarism. Burke. 
RU'GIN, s. A nappy cloth. Obsolete. 
. RUGGIOLA, a sort of Spanish slate, serving in many 
places in the room of tiles and brick. It is a flaky stone of 
the nature of some of our grey slates, and is cut out of a 
mountain near . Cordova; a plate of this being well heated 
on both sides, will retain its warmth for twenty-four hours. 
The people of Cornwall and some parts of Yorkshire, use 
a stone, which is of a talcky nature, to warm themselves 
when in bed, applying it at the feet of the bed. This they 
call the warming stone, from its use, and it will retain a 
sensible heat six or eight hours, after once moderately warm¬ 
ing. Plot's Oxfordshire. 
RU'GINE, s. [Fr.] A chirurgeon’s rasp. Obsolete —If 
new flesh should not generate, bore little orifices into the 
bone, or rasp it out with the rugine. Sharp. 
RUGLES, a small town in the north France, department 
of the Eure, on the river Rille, with 1600 inhabitants. It 
has very extensive manufactures of pins, which employ here 
and in the neighbourhood, between 2000 and 3000 work¬ 
men ; 25 miles south-by-west of Evreux. 
RUGMAN (Jonas Jonae), a learned Icelander, was born 
in 1636, he was made prisoner in 1658, and carried to 
Gottenborg, where a Swedish gentleman, named Brahe, took 
him under his protection, and placed him at Wissenborg 
school, whence he was sent to the Academy of Upsal with a 
pension from the king. He was author of the “ Klaugu- 
grat, hoc est Threnodia de Morte Comitis Magni Gabrielis 
de la Gardie, carmine Drot-Kuaett, id est heroico. Lingua 
veteri Gothica, quae est Islandica,” Upsal, 1664, 4to.; 
“ Fragmenta quaedam Legum veterum collecta ex diversis 
Scriptoribus et Historiis, Lingua eadem," lb., 1667, 8vo.; 
“ Versio Svetica Historiae Veteris Islandica Lingua scriptaede 
Regibus Norvagorum, quae vulgo Konunga-Sagur nuncu- 
pantur,’’ Wisinburg, 1670, fob; Monosyllaba Islandica,” 
Upsal, 1676, 8vo.; “ Hliod Grein, ars Poetica veterum 
Scaldorum, auctore Snorrone Sturlaesonis Islando, version® 
Latina brevique indice illustrata;” and several other works in 
the laws, history and poetry of the north. Forsog til et 
Lexicon over Danske, Norslce og Is/andske Iccrde mcend 
of Jens Worm. 
RU'GOSE, adj. [rugosus, Lat.] Full of wrinkles.—* 
It is a relaxation of the sphincter to such a degree, that the 
internal rugose coat of the intestine turneth out, and beareth 
down. Wiseman. 
RU'GOSITY, s. [rugosus, Lat.] State of being 
wrinkled. 
RUIILA, a small town in the interior of Germany, divided 
by a rivulet into two parts, the one belonging to Saxe-Gotha; 
the other of the principally of Eisenacht in Saxe-Weimar. 
The population of the two is 2500, who manufacture a great 
deal of iron, brass, and ivory ware; 14 miles west-by-south 
of Gotha, and 5 south-east of Eisenach. 
RUHLAND, a small town of the Prussian states, in Upper 
Lusatia, on the Elster, with 1500 inhabitants; 28 miles 
north-by east of Dresden. 
RUHNICEN (David), an eminent critic, was born in 1723, 
at Stolp, in Pomerania, of parents in a reputable situation in 
life. After a school education, followed by the more en¬ 
larged instruction of the Frederician college at Konigsberg, 
he went at the age of 18 to the University of Wittemberg, 
where he attended the lectures of Ritter on jurisprudence and 
history, and those of Berger on Roman eloquence and 
antiquities, and also paid attention to mathematics, dialectics, 
and philosophy. In 1749, the sixth year of his residence at 
Leyden, he first made himself known as a critic by a Latin 
epistle to the celebrated Valekenaer on Homer’s Hymns, and 
Hesiod; which was followed in 1751 by another to Ernesti 
on Callimachus and Apollonius Rhodius. Both of these 
displayed consummate skill in the Greek language, with 
great compass of erudition and elegance of taste He next 
edited “ Timsei Lexicon Vocurn Platonicarum,” a piece of 
which Brunck said, “ This, in the whole circle of Greek 
literature, is both the shortest and most learned work.” 
He also edited Rutilius Lupus, with AquilaRomanus, and Jul. 
Rufinianus, “ De Figurissententiarum.” He afterwards em¬ 
ployed himself in an edition of the “ Scholiasta of Plato,” 
and an improved edition of “ Scheller’s Latin Dictionary.” 
RUHNOE, or Run, a small island in the Baltic, on the 
coast of Livonia, belonging to Russia. It is six miles in 
length, and three in breadth. The inhabitants are partly of 
Swedish, partly of Livonian descent. It has a light-house, 
and is 34 miles east-bv-north of Domesness. 
RUJA, 
