Rubber (n.) An overshoe made of India rubber.
Rubbidge (n.) Rubbish.
Rubbing () a. & n. from Rub, v.
Rubbish (n.) Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.
Rubbish (a.) Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.
Rubble (n.) Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
Rubble (n.) Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash.
Rubble (n.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.
Rubble (n.) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
Rubblestone (n.) See Rubble, 1 and 2.
Rubblework (n.) Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
Rubbly (a.) Relating to, or containing, rubble.
Rubedinous (a.) Reddish.
Rubefacient (a.) Making red.
Rubefacient (n.) An external application which produces redness of the skin.
Rubefaction (n.) The act or process of making red.
Rubelet (n.) A little ruby.
Rubella (n.) An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.
Rubelle (n.) A red color used in enameling.
Rubellite (n.) A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium.
Rubeola (n.) the measles.
Rubeola (n.) Rubella.
Ruberythrinic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained.
Rubescence (n.) The quality or state of being rubescent; a reddening; a flush.
Rubescent (a.) Growing or becoming red; tending to redness.
Rubiaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms.
Rubiacin (n.) A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.
Rubian (n.) One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root.
Rubianic (a.) pertaining to, or derived from, rubian; specifically, designating an acid called also ruberythrinic acid.
Ru bible (n.) A ribble.
Rubican (a.) Colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses.
Rubicelle (n.) A variety of ruby of a yellowish red color, from Brazil.
Rubicon (n.) A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar.
Rubicund (a.) Inclining to redness; ruddy; red.
Rubicundity (n.) The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness.
Rubidic (a.) Of or pertaining to rubidium; containing rubidium.
Rubidine (n.) A nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H17N; also, any one of the group od metameric compounds of which rubidine is the type.
Rubidium (n.) A rare metallic element. It occurs quite widely, but in small quantities, and always combined. It is isolated as a soft yellowish white metal, analogous to potassium in most of its properties. Symbol Rb. Atomic weight, 85.2.
Rubific (a.) Making red; as, rubific rays.
Rubification (n.) The act of making red.
Rubiform (a.) Having the nature or quality of red; as, the rubiform rays of the sun.
Rubify (v. t.) To redden.
Rubiginose (a.) Alt. of Rubiginous
Rubiginous (a.) Having the appearance or color of iron rust; rusty-looking.
Rubigo (n.) same as Rust, n., 2.
Rubin (n.) A ruby.
Rubious (a.) Red; ruddy.
Rubiretin (n.) One of the red dye products extracted from madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.
Ruble (n.) The unit of monetary value in Russia. It is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents. The silver ruble is a coin worth about 60 cents.
Rubric (n.) That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions.
Rubric (n.) A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc., when printed in red.
Rubric (n.) The title of a statute; -- so called as being anciently written in red letters.
Rubric (n.) The directions and rules for the conduct of service, formerly written or printed in red; hence, also, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; -- usually in the plural.
Rubric (n.) Hence, that which is established or settled, as by authority; a thing definitely settled or fixed.
Rubric (v. t.) To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate.
Rubric (a.) Alt. of Rubrical
Rubrical (a.) Colored in, or marked with, red; placed in rubrics.
Rubrical (a.) Of or pertaining to the rubric or rubrics.
Rubricate (n.) Marked with red.
Rubricate (v. t.) To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form.
Rubrician (n.) Alt. of Rubricist
Rubricist (n.) One skilled in, or tenaciously adhering to, the rubric or rubrics.
Rubricity (n.) Redness.
Rubstone (n.) A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
Rubus (n.) A genus of rosaceous plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.
Rubies (pl. ) of Ruby
Ruby (n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
Ruby (n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
Ruby (n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
Ruby (n.) See Agate, n., 2.
Ruby (n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
Ruby (a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
Rubied (imp. & p. p.) of Ruby
Rubying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruby
Ruby (v. t.) To make red; to redden.
Rubytail (n.) A European gold wasp (Chrysis ignita) which has the under side of the abdomen bright red, and the other parts deep bluish green with a metallic luster. The larva is parasitic in the nests of other wasps and of bees.
Ruby-tailed (a.) Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red.
Rubythroat (n.) Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States (Trochilus colubris).
Rubywood (n.) red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.
Rucervine (a.) Of, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus Rucervus, which includes the swamp deer of India.
Ruche (n.) A plaited, quilled, or goffered strip of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets.
Ruche (n.) A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.
Ruching (n.) A ruche, or ruches collectively.
Ruck (n.) A roc.
Rucked (imp. & p. p.) of Ruck
Rucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruck
Ruck (v. t. & i.) To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet.
Ruck (v. t.) A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework.
Ruck (v. i.) To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
Ruck (n.) A heap; a rick.
Ruck (n.) The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race.
Ructation (n.) The act of belching wind.
Ruction (n.) An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak.
Rud (n.) Redness; blush.
Rud (n.) Ruddle; red ocher.
Rud (n.) The rudd.
Rud (v. t.) To make red.
Rudd (n.) A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus erythrophthalmus). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also redeye, roud, finscale, and shallow. A blue variety is called azurine, or blue roach.
Rudder (n.) A riddle or sieve.
Rudder (n.) The mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment.