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. RUJA, a castle of Greece, in the south of the Morea, 
situated on a rock on the eastern side of the bay ofKolokythia. 
It has a harbour. 
-RUIB, a small island in the Pacific ocean, about sixleagues 
from Waygoo. It consists of one high hill, and is surround¬ 
ed by a number of smaller islands, with very deep waters 
between them. 'Lat. 0. 4. N. long 130. 20. E. 
RU'IN, s. [ruine, Fr. ruina, Lat.] The fall or destruc¬ 
tion of cities or edifices. 
Loud rung the ruin, and with boisterous fear, 
Strait revell’d in the queen’s amazed ear. Beaumont. 
The remains of building demolished. 
Judah shall fall, oppress’d by grief and shame. 
And men shall from her ruins know her fame. Prior. 
_ Destruction; loss of happiness or fortune ; overthrow. 
He parted frowning from me, as if ruin 
Leapt from his eyes. Shakspeare. 
Those whom God to ruin has design’d. 
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. Dri/den. 
Mischief; bane.—The errors of young men are the ruin 
of business. Bacon. Havock, and spoil, and ruin are my 
gain. Milton. 
To RUTN, v. a. [ruiner, Fr.] To subvert; to demolish. 
A nation loving gold must rule this place, 
Our temples ruin, and our rites deface. " Dry den. 
To destroy; to deprive of felicity or fortune.—A confi¬ 
dent dependance ill-grounded creates such a negligence, as 
will certainly ruin us in the end. Wake. —To impoverish. 
—She would ruin me in silks, were not the quantity that 
goes to a large pincushion sufficient to make her a gown and 
petticoat. Addison. 
To RU'IN v. n. To fall in ruins. Little used. 
Hell heard the unsufFerable noise, hell saw 
Heaven ruining from heav’n, and would have fled 
Affrighted, but strict fate had fix’d too deep 
Her dark foundations and too fast had bound. Milton. 
' To run to ruin; to dilapidate. Unused. 
Though he his house of polish’d marble build. 
Yet shall it ruin like the moth’s frail cell, 
Or sheds of reeds, which summer’s heat repel. Sandys. 
To be brought to poverty or misery.—If we are idle, and 
disturb the industrious in their business, we shall ruin the 
faster. Locke. 
RUINART (Thierry), a learned French ecclesiastical 
writer towards the close of the 17th and at the commence- 
of the 18th century. His numerous works chiefly relate to 
the history of the benedictine and other religious orders. 
To RU'INATE, v. a. To ruin. Obsolete. 
I will not ruinate my father’s house. 
Who gave his blood to lime the stones together, 
And set up Lancaster. Shakspeare. 
RUINATION, s. Subversion; demolition; overthrow. 
A vulgar colloquial word.—Roman coins were covered over 
in the ground, in the sudden ruination of towns by the 
Saxons. Camden. 
■ RUINER, s. One that ruins. 
This Ulysses, old Laertes’ sonne, 
That dwells in Ithaca; and name hath wonne 
Of citie miner. Chapman. 
RUINERWOLD, an inland village of the Netherlands, 
province of Drenthe. Population 1000 ; 17 miles north- 
north-east of Zwolle. 
RUINOUS, adj. Fallen to ruin; dilapidated; demo¬ 
lished.—It is less dangerous, when divers parts of a tower 
are decayed, and the foundation firm, than when the found¬ 
ation is ruinous. May-ward. —Mischievous; pernicious; 
baneful; destructive. 
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The birds, 
After a night of storm so ruinous. 
Clear'd up their choicest notes in bush and spray, 
To gratulate the sweet return of morn. Milton < 
A stop might be put to that ruinous practice of gaming. 
Swift. 
RUINOUSLY, adv. In a ruinous manner.—By the 
serche of dyverse most ruynouslye spoyled, broaken up, 
and dyspersed libraries. Bale. —-Mischievously; destruc¬ 
tively.—If real uneasinesses may be admitted to be as 
deterring as imaginary ones, his own decree will retort the 
most ruinously on himself. Dec. of Chr. Piety. 
RUINOUSNESS, s. A ruinous state. Scott. 
RUISLIP, a parish of England, in Middlesex; 3| miles 
north-east of Uxbridge. Population 1239. 
RUIZIA [so named by Cavanilles, in honour of Don 
Hippolito Ruiz, a Spanish botanist, who, in conjunction 
with Pavon, another pupil of Mutis, published the splendid 
Flora Peruviana ], in Botany, a genus of the class mona- 
delphia, order polyandria, natural order columniferae, mal- 
vaceae (Juss.) —Generic Character. Calyx: perianth in¬ 
ferior, double; outer of three, ovate, concave, acute, deci¬ 
duous leaves; inner of one leaf, permanent, cloven into five 
lanceolate segments. Corolla: petals five, obliquely sickle¬ 
shaped, rounded at the tip, undivided, flat, spreading, 
fastened to the bundle of stamens. Stamina: filaments 
numerous, generally from thirty to forty, shorter than the 
corolla, united at their base into the form of a pitcher 
inclosing the germen; anthers oblong, incumbent. Pistil: 
germen superior, globose, ten-furrowed; styles ten, short; 
stigmas simple. Pericarp : capsules ten, compressed, mem¬ 
branaceous, woody on the back, boat-shaped, of one 
cell, united into a globular, umbilical whorl. Seeds two, 
roundish, or slightly triangular, pointed.— Essential Cha¬ 
racter. Calyx double; outer of three leaves. Styles ten. 
Capsules ten, of one cell, with two seeds, and disposed in 
a circle. 
1. Ruizia cordata, or heart-leaved Ruizia.—Native of the 
Isle of Bourbon, where it flowers in March and April. Stem 
shrubby, branched. Leaves alternate, stalked, numerous, 
ovate, pointed, notched. Stipulas awl-shaped, whitish, 
powdery, deciduous. Flowers in umbel-like terminal co¬ 
rymbs, sulphur-coloured, each on a short stalk. 
2. Ruizia lobata, or lobed Ruizia.—Found also in the Isle 
of Bourbon, flowering in February and March. A handsome 
shrub, five or six feet high, much branched, with a greyish- 
white bark. Leaves crowded together at the extremities of 
the branches, alternate, stalked, smooth above, white and 
dusty beneath, the older divided into five, rarely into seven, 
lobes. Stipulas awl-shaped, erect, downy or powdery, 
deciduous. Flowers like those of the above species in form 
and colour. 
3. Ruizia variabilis, or various-leaved Ruizia —Native of 
the Isle of Bourbon, and introduced at Kew, in 1792, where 
it flowers in May. A very handsome shrub of rather hum¬ 
ble, but diffuse, growth. Stems wavy, furrowed, brown. 
Leaves alternate, stalked, dark green above, whitish un¬ 
derneath, extremely curious for the variety of their shape, 
expressed in the specific character. Flowers in umbel-like 
corymbs, of a pale red or crimson colour, with deep red 
claws. 
RULE, s. [old French rule, regie; Sax. pejol, pegul: 
Lat. regula. ]—Government ; empire ; sway ; supreme 
command. 
I am asham’d that women 
Should seek for rule, supremacy, or sway, 
When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. Shakspeare. 
There being no law of nature, nor positive law of God, 
that determines which is the positive heir, the right of suc¬ 
cession, and consequently of bearing rule, could not have 
been determined. Locke. —An instrument by which lines 
are drawn. 
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