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’he echinus: this being difficult to clear, our people throw 
it away, and call it the manifold. 4. The ewo-ryov of 
Aristotle, by Gaza called the abomasus; and, among us, 
the maw. 
To RU'MIN ATE, v. n. [ruminer , Fr. rumino, Lat.] 
To chew the cud. 
Others—fill’d with pasture gazing sat, 
Or bedward ruminating. Milton. 
To muse; to think again and again.—I am at a solitude, 
an house between Hampstead and London, wherein Sir 
Charles Sedley died : this circumstance sets me a thinking 
and ruminating upon the employments in which men of 
wit exercise themselves. Steele. He practises a slow 
meditation, and ruminates on the subject; and perhaps 
in two nights and days rouses those several ideas which are 
necessary. Watts. 
To RUMINATE, v. a. [rumino , Lat.] To chew 
over again.—To muse on; to meditate over and over again. 
’Tis a studied, not a present thought, 
By duty ruminated. Shakspeare. 
The condemned English 
Sit patiently, and inly ruminate 
The morning’s danger. Shakspeare. 
RU'MINATION, s. [ruminatio, Lat. from ruminate .] 
The property or act of chewing the cud.— Rumination is 
given to animals, to enable them at once to lay up a great- 
store of food, and afterwards to chew it. Arbuthnot. —Me¬ 
ditation ; reflection.—It is melancholy of mine own, ex¬ 
tracted from many objects, in which my often rumination 
wraps me in a most humorous sadness. Shakspeare. 
Retiring, full of rumination sad, 
He mourns the weakness of these latter times. Thomson. 
Instances of rumination, by the human species, are on 
record. See Pathology, p. 125-6-8. 
RU'MINATOR, s. [from ruminate; Fr. rumineur. ] 
One that considers or thinks of, deliberates or pauses on, a 
matter. Cotgrave. 
RUMINAVI, a lofty mountain of Quito, which is almost 
entirely covered with snow. This mountain, which is a vol¬ 
cano, is in Lat. 0. 28. S. 
RUMLANG, a large village in the north of Switzerland ; 
4 miles north of Zurich. 
To RU'MMAGE, v. a. [ raumen , Germ, to empty, 
Skinner.~] To search; to evacuate. 
Our greedy seamen rummage every hold. 
Smile on the booty of each wealthier chest. Dry den. 
To RU'MMAGE, v. n. To search places.—I have 
often rummaged for old books in Little-Britain and Duck- 
lane. Swift. 
RU'MMAGE, s. Search; act of tumbling things about. 
A low word. 
RUMMEL, a river in the western province of Algiers, 
which passes by the city of Constantina, and joins the 
Wed el Kibeer; 18 miles north-west of Constantina. 
RUMMELSBERG, a mountain of Prussian Silesia, in the 
principality of Brieg. 
RUMMELSBURG, a town of Prussia, in Pomerania. 
Population 1500 ; 33 miles east-south-east of Coslin. 
RUMMER, s. [ roemer, Dutch.] A glass; a drinking 
cup.—Imperial Rhine bestow’d the generous rummer. 
Philips. 
RUMNEY, a village of England, situated on the banks 
of a river of the same name, in Monmouthshire; 3 miles from 
Cardiff. 
RUMNEY, a township of the United States, in Grafton 
county. New Hampshire; 7 miles north-west of Plymouth. 
Population 794. 
RU'MOROUS, adj. Famous; notorious. Not in use. 
—The rumorouse fall of antichryst and hiskyngdome. Bale. 
RUMOUR, s. [ rurneur, Fr. rumor , Lat.] Flying or 
popular report; bruit; fame. 
RUM 
There ran a rumour 
Of many worthy fellows that were out. Shakspeare. 
She heard an ancient rumour fly, 
That times to come should see the Trojan race 
Her Carthage ruin. Dryden. 
To RUMOUR, v. a. To report abroad; to bruit. 
Catesby, rumour it abroad, 
That Anne my wife is sick, and like to die. Shakspeare. 
’Twas rumour'd. 
My father ’scap’d from out the citadel. Dryden. 
RUMOURER, s. Reporter; spreader of news.—Go 
seethe rumourer whipt: it cannot be. Shakspeare. 
RUMP, s. \rumpf, Germ, romp, Dutch.] 
At her rump she growing had behind 
A fox’s tail. Spenser. 
Last trotted forth the gentle swine, 
To ease her itch against the stump. 
And dismally was heard to whine, 
All as she scrubb’d her meazly rump. Swift. 
He charg’d him first to bind 
Crowdero’s hands on rump behind. Hudibras. 
A name applied, in the history of this country, to the 
parliament at certain periods, during the reign of Cromwell. 
It was called the rw^wp-parliament, Lord Clarendon says, 
from the detestation men had of it as the fag-end of a car¬ 
cass long since expired.—The rump abolished the House of 
Lords, the army abolished the rump, and by this army of 
saints Cromwell governed. Swift. 
RUMPER, s. One who favoured the rump-parliament; 
one who had been a member of it. A bad word. 
RUMPH (George-Everard), a naturalist, born atHanau, 
in 1637, was brought up to physic, and became a member 
ofifeaafesBdsBBa^feturee Curiosorum. He engaged in com¬ 
merce, and resided long at Amboyna, where his talents and 
integrity raised him to the post of counsellor to the Dutch 
East India Company. The natural history of those parts 
occupied much of his attention, and his “ Thesaurus imaginum 
Piscium, Testaceorum, Cochlearum, Concharum, Con- 
chliorum, et Mineralium,” was printed at Leyden, in 171], 
fol. His “ Herbarium Amboinese” began to be edited at 
Amsterdam by J. Burmann in 1741, and' was completed in 
1755, in 7 vols. fol., eluding an “ Actuarium,” by Bur¬ 
mann himself, who also added notes and a Linnean index. 
This is a vast collection, containing many new species not 
in the Hortus Malabaricus. The history of the trees and 
plants is tolerably full, including the economical and medi¬ 
cal uses, but without the minute distinctions of the flowers 
requisite in modern botany. Rumph composed a Political 
History of Amboyna, which has not been made public, but 
a copy of it is preserved in the island, and another in the 
records of the East India Company at Amsterdam. Some 
letters of his on Indian affairs are found in Valentyn’s 
“ Commercium Literarium,” 1704. Halleri Bibl. Botan. 
RUMPHIA [so named by Linnaeus, in honour of George 
Everhard Rumphius, M. D.], in Botany, a genus of the 
class triandria, order monogynia, natural order of terebin- 
taceae (Juss.), Dubii, Linn. —Generic Character. Calyx: 
perianth, one-leafed, trifid, erect, flat. Corolla: petals 
three, oblong, obtuse, equal. Stamina: filaments three, 
awl-shaped, the length of the corolla; anthers small. 
Pistil: germ roundish; style awl-shaped, the length of the 
stamens; stigma three-cornered. Pericarp: drupe coriace¬ 
ous, turbinate, three-grooved.—Seed : nut ovate, entire, 
three-celled.— Essential Character. Calyx three-cleft. 
Petals three. Drupe three-celled. 
Rumphia amboinensis.—This is a lofty tree, with an ash- 
coloured bark. Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, acute, 
toothletted rugged. Racemes axillary.—Native of the East 
Indies. 
RUMPLE, once spelt rympyl, s. [hpympelle, Saxon.] 
Pucker; rude plait. 
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