List of Old English Words in the OED/RU

Old English	sb	English
Rud	n	Red or ruddy colour; redness; reddish, ruddiness. 2. complexion of those parts of the face naturally reddish.
Rudd	n	A freshwater cyprinoid fish (Leuciscus erythropthalmus) resembling the roach; the red-eye
Rudder	n	A flat part fixed to the back of a boat, which may be turned from side to side in water for guiding it
Rudderhead	n
Rudderless	adj
Rudderlessly	adv
Rudder stock	n	The vertical shaft to which the rudder of ship or boat is attached, having at its upper portion a yoke.
Ruddiness	n
Ruddish	adj
Ruddle	n	A variety of red ocherous iron ore; reddle.
Ruddle	vb	To color with red ochre.
Ruddock	n	Redbreast, robin: Grithacus rubecule. 2. a gold coin; hence gold money. 3. variety of cider. 4. species of toad.
Ruddy	adj	Red or reddish: face suffused with a fresh healthy red. 2. of persons, having a red complexion. 3. red with blushing. 4. showing or havig a healthy redness. 5. epithet of light or fire of the heavenly bodies, the sky or clouds. 6. a qualifier of other nouns: ruddish brown, somewhat ruddy or sad-yellow; ruddy-bright, ruddy-golden. 7. euphemism for bloody.
Ruddy	vb	Render ruddish or ruddy in hue. 2, to turn red or blush
Rue	n	Sorrow, distress, repentance, pity, compassion, regret. 2. The plant: 'Ruta graveolens'
Rue	vb	To take the rue: repent, pity, repent, pity. 2. To effect (a person) with pity, compassion, penitence or contrition for sins or offenses committed. 3. to effect with sorrow, to distress, to grieve. 4. to repent of wrongdoing, to feel penitence, remorse or contrition for sins etc. 5. to repent of some action and wish it undone or altered, om account of consequences: rue the day. 6. to think of an event with sorrow or with regard; wish something had never happened or occurred. 7. to lament, feel sorry, pity or compassion. Nb: rueing: compassionate; pitying.
Rueful	adj
Ruefully	adv	In a doleful or dismal manner, sorrowfully, dejectedly, regretfully.
Ruefulness	n	Repentance, sorrowfulness, pity, compassion, pity
Ruly	adj	Rueful, pitiable, pitiful, woeful, wretchedly
Rumple	vb	OE?
Run	n
Run	vb
Run	phr	"At the Run" - running.
Run	phr	"Be Run Down" - be in a weak state of health.
Run	phr	'Have the Run of the House" - to have free access and freedom to make use of what it offers.
Run	phr	"In the Long Run" - in the end; ultimately.
Run	phr	"In the Run to" -
Run	phr
Run	phr	"On the Run" - escaping, running away; fleeing. 2. hurrying about from place to place.
Run	phr	"Run a Bath" -
Run	phr	"Run About" - bustle; hurry from one person or place to another. 2. play about without restraint, as children.
Run	phr	"Run After" - pursue with attentions; seek the society of.
Run	phr	"Run Against" - happen to meet. 2. compete against, especially.
Run	phr	"Run Aground" -
Run	phr	"Run Along" - depart, go away.
Run	phr	"Run Away" - get away by running, fleeing., absconding. 2. elope. 3. bolt as a horse.
Run	phr	"Run Away with" - carry off a person or property. 2. win a prize easily. 3. accept a notion hastily. 4. leave home to have a relationship. 5. consume money. 6. deprive of self control or common sense.
Run	phr	"Run Along" -
Run	phr	"Run a Mile from" - said of a person you would do everything to avoid.
Run	phr	"Run a Red Light" -
Run	phr	"Run a Tight Ship" - to manage efficiently an organization.
Run	phr	"Run Back" -
Run	phr	"Run by" -
Run	phr	"Run Down" - knock down or collide with. 2. reduce the strength of numbers. 3. stop as an unwound clock. 4. become feeble from overwork or lack of nourishment. 5. discover after a search. 6. disparage, denigrate.
Run	phr	"Run Dry" - cease to flow; unflow; be exhausted.
Run	phr	"Run for It" - seek safely by fleeing. 2. make a dash for safety.
Run	phr	"Run for the Roses" -
Run	phr	"Run Hard" - be close at the heels of the winner.
Run	phr	"Run High" - have a strong current with a high tide, as the sea. 2. have strong feelings.
Run	phr	"Run Hot" -
Run	phr	"Run Hot and Cold"
Run	phr	"Run In" - run in carefully an engine or vehicle in the new or early stages of it use. 2. be arrested.
Run	phr	"Run in One's Head" - to linger in one's memory.
Run	phr	"Run Into" - collide wit. 2. meet, encounter. 3. reach a specified figure or number. 4. be continuous or coalesce. 5.
Run	phr	"Run Into a Dead End" - get nowhere into an investigation.
Run	phr	"Run Into Heavy Weather" - to encounter difficulties.
Run	phr	"Run Into the Ground" - bring a person to exhaustion.
Run	phr	"Run Like a Top" -
Run	phr	"Run Off" - flee, escape. 2. produce copies on a machines. 3. decide a race, contest, etc after a series of heats or in the case of a tie. 5. flow or cause to flow away. 5. write or recite fluently. 6. digress suddenly.
Run	phr	"Run Off at the Mouth" -
Run	phr	"Run off One's Feet" - be extremely business.
Run	phr	"Run Off with" -
Run	phr	"Run of the Mill" -
Run	phr	"Run On" - of written character, as a ligature: run together. 2. continue in operation. 3. elapse. 4. speak volubly; talk incessantly.
Run	phr	"Run One's Own Ship" - to do things and organise subordinates in one's own way.
Run	phr	"Run Onto" - enter; go onto. 2. continue traveling towards.
Run	phr	"Run Out" - come to and end, use up. 2. exhaust one's stock or supply. 3. flow from a container. 4. jut or stick out; project. 5. tire oneself completely by running too much. 6. in a contest 7. compete to a required or specified position.
Run	phr	"Run Out On" - desert, abandon another person.
Run	phr	"Run Over" - overflow. 2. of a driver of a motor vehicle : pass over, knock down a person, often killing or causing crushing injury to them. 3. study or repeat quickly. 4. touch a keyboard, or piano keys etc in quick succession. 2. go on a qyick journey or visit.
Run	phr	"Run Roughshod Over" -
Run	phr	"Run Short" - become low in number; become depleted, having too little left.
Run	phr	"Run the Show" - dominate in an undertaking.
Run	phr	"Run Through" - examine or rehearse briefly. 2. peruse; skip through. 3. deal successively through. 4. consume wealth by reckless spending. 5. pass through by running. 6. pervade. 7. draw a line through. 8. pierce with a sword.
Run	phr	"Run to" - have the ability or money for. 2. reach an amount or number. 3. of a person having the tendency to run to or become, as fat. 4. be enough for (some undertaking or expense). 5. have the resources or capacity for. 6. fall into ruin or dilapidation.
Run	phr	"Run to Earth" - chase to a lair. 2.discover after a long search.
Run	phr	"Run Together" - to mingle.
Run	phr	"Run to Meet" - anticipate (one's troubles etc)
Run	phr	"Run to Seed" - cease flowering as seed develops. 2. become degenerative, unkempt, ineffective or exhausted. 3. to deteriorate after a promising start.
Run	phr	"Run Up" accumulate, (a debt, expenses) quickly). 2. build or make hurriedly. 3. raise a flag. 4. grow quickly. 5. rise in price; to increase in amount. 6. amount to. 7. add up a column of figures. 8. go quickly by a flying visit.
Run	phr	"Run Up Against" - meet with difficulties or difficulty.
Run	phr	"Run Upon" - of one's thoughts: be engrossed, dwell upon.
Run	phr	"Run Wild" - grow unchecked or undisciplined or untrained.
Run	phr	"With a Run" - suddenly, abruptly.
Runabout	n	A motor boat.
Runaway	n	A fugitive; escapee, convict escaped from prisoner. 2. an animal or vehicle that is running out of control. 3. that is running away or out of control, as inflation, prices, success etc. 4. done or performed after running away.
Run-back	n
Run book	n
Run-down	n	A reduction in numbers. 2. a detailed analysis. 3.
Rundown	adj	Decayed after prosperity. 2. enfeebled through overwork or illness.
Rundle	n	A small stream or rivulet, brooklet, watercourse, gully, rojo, burn, bourn, ea, yea, rindle, runnel
Rune	n	Any of the letters of the earliest Germanic alphabet, used by Vikings and in late Old English by the Anglo-Saxons or from about the C3rd. 2. a similar mark of mysterious or magic significance.
Rune	n	A course on onward movement, esp. of heavenly bodies. 2. the running gait of a person. 3. a flow of blood. 4. a watercourse, stream, rivulet, rindle, runnel, rhine, reen.
Rune	n	Whisper, secret, counsel, mystery.
Rune-like	adj
Runer	n	A Gothic bard.
Rune-stave	n	A runic letter, staff or symbol
Rung	n	A stout stick or rounded form, esp one used as a rail (in a cart, etc.). 2 a round or stave of a ladder. 3. in ship building: a timber floor.
Run-holder	n
Run-in	n	The approach to an action or event. 2. colloquial: a quarrel.
Runless	adj
Runnel	n	A small stream of water; a brooklet, rivulet, rill, trickle. 2. a small watercourse or channel; a gutter
Runner	n	One who runs ; a racer, a good racer, a horse in a race, a roadster. 2. a vagabond, fugitive, deserter. 3. one who carries messages backward and forward; a messenger. 4. a bookmaker's assistant. 5. freelance antique dealing. 6. one who solicits customers for hotels, restaurants, trade organizations, tow truck-operators, journalists, ambulance chaser etc.
Runner	phr	"Do a Runner" - leave, hastily abscond.
Runnerless	n
Runner-up	n	The competitor or team taking second place. 2. an animal that takes the second prize.
Runnily	adv
Runniness	n
Running	n	The action of a runner. 2, the sport of racing on foot. 3. the way a race etc proceeds. 4. of water, streams, etc. flowing..
Running	adj	Continuing an an essentially continuous basis through changing in detail. 2. consecutive; one after the other. 3. done with a running (jump).
Running	phr	"Be Up and Running" - to be operative.
Running	phr	"His Shoes are Made of Running Leather" - said of one giving to wander or roam.
Running	phr	"In the Running" - in an event with a good chance of winning.
Running	phr	"Make the Running" - force or set the pace; take the initiative.
Running	phr	"The Sands are Running Out" - the time available for some action is nearly at an end.
Running-board	n	A foot-board on either side of a vehicle.
Running dog	n	From Chinese zougou, from zou (running) + gou (dog), apparently as an allusion to a dog running to follow his or her master's commands. This term was employed in Chinese Communist terminology to refer to someone who was considered subservient to counter-revolutionary interest. Earliest documented use: 1925.
Running fight	n	The defence put up by a force retreating in good order.
Running-fire	n	Successive shots from a line of troops etc. 2. a bombardment of questions or interruptions at a public meeting.
Running hand	n	Writing in which the pen is not lifted after each letter.
Running head	n	A running headline: a head printed at the top of a number of consecutive pages of a book etc.
Running headline	n
Running iron	n
Running knot	n	A knot that slips along the rope etc. and changes the size of the noose.
Running light	n	Each of a small set of lights on a motor vehicle that remains illuminated while the vehicle is running.
Running-rope	n	A rope that is freely that is movable through a pulley etc.
Running shed	n	A shed where trains or trams are housed.
Running shoes	n
Running sore	n	A suppurating sore.
Running speech	n
Running-through	n
Running-stitch	n	A line of small over-lapping stitches for gathering etc. 2. one of these stitches.
Running water	n	Water flowing in a stream or from a tap etc.
Runny	adj	Tending to run or flow. 2. excessively fluid.
Run-off	n	An additional or special competition, contest,race, after a tie or inconclusive result. 2. an amount of rainfall that is carried off an area by streams and rivers. 3. the part of the rainfall in a particular area which is not directly absorbed but is drained of in rills or streams.
Run-of-play	n
Run-of-the-mill	adj	Ordinary, undistinguished.
Run-through	n	A rehearsal. 2. a brief survey.
Run-up	n	The period preceding an important event.
Runny	adj
Run-through	n
Run time	n
Run-up	n	The lead-up to an event.
Runway	n	A specially prepared surface along which aircrafts take-off and land. 2. a trail to an animals watering-place. 3. an incline down which logs are slid. 4. a raised gangway in a theatre, fashion show. 5. an artificial track or gangway.
Rure	adj	Scabby, leprous, scaly, crusty, rindhard.
Rush	n	Any marsh or waterside plant of the plant Juncaceae. 2. a thing of little value or worth.
Rush	phr	"Not Wortth a Rush" - a thing of little value or worth.
Rush candle	n	A candle made by dipping the pith of a rush in tallow. 2. rush-light.
Rushen	adj	Made of rushes, or a rush
Rush toad	n	The natterjack.
Rushy	adj	Abounding in or made of rushes.
Rust	n	A red, orange or tawny formed upon the surface of iron
Rust	vb
Rust	phr	"Rust off" -
Rust belt	n	An area of once profitable industry, esp. in the American Midwest and north-eastern states.
Rust-bucket	n
Rusted	adj
Rustful	adj
Rustiness	n
Rustle	n	OE?
Rustle	vb
Rust-less	adj
Rustlessness	n
Rust-like	adj
Rusty	adj	Rusted or affected by rust. 2. stiff with age or disuse. 3. of knowledge : faded or impaired by neglect. 4. rust-colored. 5. of antiquated appearance. 6. antiquated, behind the times. 7. of a voice; croaky, croaking or creaky.
Ruth	n	OE: hreow: sad; the quality of being compassionate, feeling sorrow for another, compassion, pity. 2. contrition, grief, distress, lamentation. 3. matter or occasion of sorrow. regret.
Ruthful	adj	Full of sorrow or pity; sorrowful; merciful. 2. causing sorrow.
Ruthless	adj	Having no compassion; unrestrained by pity; merciless.
Ruthness	n	The state or quality of being sorrow, contrite, regretful.