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stigma.—According to Micheli and Dillenius, the male parts 
are far removed from the females, and these are placed in 
distinct filiform spadixes. —Essential Character. Calyx 
none. Corolla none. Seeds four, pedicelled. 
Ruppia maritima, sea Ruppia or tassel pondweed.—This 
plant, when not in fruit, very much resembles potamogeton 
pectinatum or marinum, but the leaves differ, are rather 
alternate, very long and slender, pointed. The sti¬ 
pules also are not produced at the end acute and bifid, but 
areretuse. The stems are filiform, and very much branched. 
About four flowers on a spike, or from one to four, though 
commonly two, one terminating and one sessile. The spike 
emerges from the water, and therefore the peduncle or flower- 
stalk is of very different lengths, according to the depth of 
the water, for it relaxes or contracts as the depth of the 
water increases or diminishes. Anthers sessile, bursting 
at top into two hemispheres. Germs ovate, after im¬ 
pregnation each elevated on its proper pedicel. Stamens, 
germs and seeds four in each flower.—Nuts four or 
more, aggregate, peduncled, ovate-acuminate, corticate: 
rind coriaceous-membranaceous, very thin: shell crus- 
taceous, black, one-celled valveless. Seed ovate-globu¬ 
lar, often slightly acuminate, pale. Linnaeus marks this 
plant as annual; Hudson as perennial.—Native of several 
parts of Europe in salt-water ditches. Not uncommon in 
Britain. 
RUPPIN, New, a town of the Prussian province of 
Brandenburg, government of Potsdam, on a lake of the same 
name, joined to the river Havel by a canal. It is regularly 
built, the streets intersecting each other at right angles. It 
has several public buildings, such as the high church, the 
high school, the council-house, the barracks, the hospital, 
a work-house, and a very large building for exercising the 
troops. Ruppin contains 4600 inhabitants, besides a garri¬ 
son. The principal employments are weaving woollen, 
tanning leather, and making gloves. In regard to education, 
it is a central spot for a considerable track of country.—Old 
Ruppin is a small town a little farther to the north, with 1000 
inhabitants; 35 miles north-north-west of Berlin. Lat. 52. 
55. 59. N. long. 12. 54. 52. E. 
RU'PTION, s. [from ruptus, Lat.] Breach; solution 
of continuity.—The plentitude of vessels or plethora causes 
an extravasation of blood, by ruption or apertion. Wiseman. 
RU'PTURE, s. [from ruptus , Lat.] The act of break¬ 
ing ; state of being broken ; solution of continuity. 
The egg, 
Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclos’d. 
Their callow young. Milton. 
A breach of peace; open hostility.—When the parties, 
that divide the commonwealth, come to a rupture, it seems 
every man’s duty to chuse a side. Swift.-— Hernia; 
preternatural eruption of the gut.—The rupture of the 
fgroin or scrotum is the most common species of hernia. 
Sharp. See Surgery. 
To RU'PTURE, v. a. To break; to burst; to suffer 
disruption.—The vessels of the brain and membranes, if 
ruptured, absorb the extravasated blood. Sharp. 
RU'PTUREWORT, s. [ herniaria , Lat.] A plant. 
RU'RAL, adj. [from rura, Lat.] Country; existing in 
the country, not in cities ; suiting the country ; resembling 
the country. 
Here is a rural fellow, 
That will not be denied your highness’s presence; 
He brings you figs. Shakspeare. 
RURALIST, s. One who leads a rural life.—You have 
recalled to my thoughts an image, which must have pleaded 
so strongly with our Egyptian ruralists, for a direct and 
unqualified adoration of the solar orb. Coventry. 
RURALITY, or Ruralness, s. The quality of being 
rural. Johnson. 
RU'RALLY, adv. As in the country.—The college itself 
[Jesus] is rurally situated at some distance from the body o f 
the town, on the Newmarket road. Wakefield 
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RUREMONDE, an inland town of the Netherlands, 
the capital of a district in the province of Limburg. It 
stands at the influx of the Roer into the Maese, and is still 
surrounded with a mound and ditch. It is tolerably well 
built, and has a spacious public square, with 4300 inha¬ 
bitants, employed partly in the manufacture of woollen and 
other stuffs. It has, from its situation, been repeatedly 
exposed to the calamities of war. It was the birth-place of 
the geographer Gerhard Mercator, so well known by the 
chart which bears his name; 27 miles north-by-east of 
Maestricht. Lat. 51. 12. N. long. 5. 59. E. 
RURI'COLIST, s. [ruricola, Lat.] An inhabitant of 
the country. Johnson. 
RURI'GENOUS, adj. {rura and gigno, Lat.] Born in 
the country. Johnson. 
RUS, a mountain of Yemen, in Arabia ; 8 miles south 
of Sana. 
RUSA, a small town of the central part of European 
Russia; 68 miles west of Moscow. It contains 2400 inha¬ 
bitants, who carry on some trade in com, hemp, and 
leather. 
RUSAZUS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa, 
on the coast of Mauritania Caesariensis, between Rusubirsis 
and Vabar, according to Ptolemy. Pliny gives to this town 
the appellation of Colonia Augusta; and in the Itinerary 
of Antoninus it is named Rusazis Municipium, and placed 
between Iomnium Municipium and Saldis Colonia. 
RUSCEK, or Ruschuk. See Rustschuk. 
RUSCIUD, a small river of Persia, which falls into the 
Persian gulf; 48 miles west of Ormus. 
RUSCINO, in Ancient Geography, a town of Gallia 
Narbonnensis, the capital of the people called Consuaraini. 
It was in this town that the people of the country assembled, 
to deliberate on the passage demanded by Hannibal, ac¬ 
cording to Livy, lib. xxi. cap. 24. It was a Roman colony, 
according to Mela; and Pliny says, that it enjoyed the jus 
Latinum. It was ruined by the Normans, and its name is 
preserved in Roussillon. In the Itinerary of Antonine, this 
town was marked on the route from Narbonne to Castulo, 
between Combusta and Ad Centuriones.—Also, a river of 
Gallia Narbonnensis, according to Strabo, who says that it 
had its source in the Pyrenees, and watered a town of the 
same name. Ptolemy calls it Ruscio, and places its mouth 
between the Illiberis and Atages. 
RUSCINONA, a port of Africa, whither, according to 
Dr. Shaw, the Carthaginian fleet retired, the night before it 
engaged with Scipio near Utica. This name is said to be 
of Phoenician origin ; the first part of it, Rus or Ras, de¬ 
noting cape; and the latter, annona expressing the great 
quantity of corn and provisions that were shipped off from 
this place. These circumstances lead Shaw to conclude, 
that Ruscinona is the present “ Porto Farina,” on the coast 
of Tunis, called by the inhabitants, from an ancient saltwork 
near it, “ Gar-el-Mailah,” i. e. the cave of salt. This port, 
especially the Cothon, or inward part of it, is safe in all 
accidents of weather, and opens into a large navigable pond, 
formed by the Majerda or ancient Bagrada, which at 
present discharges itself through it, in its way to the sea. 
The town belonging to this port was formerly very con¬ 
siderable. 
RUSCOMBE, a village of England, in Berkshire; 5| 
miles east-north-east of Reading. 
RUSCUNI.ZE COLONIA, Temendfuse, a promontory 
and colony of the eastern part of Mauritania Caesariensis, 
according to Ptolemy, Pliny, Mela, and the Itinerary of 
Antonine. Antonine places it 15 miles east of Icosium. 
The ruins are still visible. 
RUSCURIUM, Rusucc;or.e of Ptolemy, and the 
Rusuccuro of the Peutingerian Tables, now Dellys, formerly 
an ancient city, but at present a small town, of Africa, on 
the coast of Algiers, situated partly at the foot and partly 
upon the declivity of a high mountain. In a wall, just over 
the harbour, is a small niche, with an image, in the atti¬ 
tude of a Madonna; but the features and drapery, says Dr. 
Shaw, are defaced. 
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