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 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
Rudder	phr	"Be a Rudderless Ship" - be a project not managed properly.
Rudder-fish	n	The pilot-fish.
Rudderless	adj	Without a rudder; unsteerable; without guidance.
Rudderlessly	adv	In a rudderless way.
Rudder stock	n	The vertical shaft to which the rudder of ship or boat is attached, having at its upper portion a yoke.
Rudder-wheel	n	A small wheel at the end of a plow to help in guiding it.
Ruddiness	n	The property of being ruddy.
Ruddish	adj	Somewhat or rather ruddish.
Ruddle	n	A variety of red ocherous iron ore; reddle. 2. species of red earth.
Ruddle	vb	To color with red ocher.
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 having 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. 8. damnable, unmitigated, confounded.
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	Causing feeling or experiencing regret or sorrow. 2. inspiring pity or compassion. 3. woeful, mourning, sorrowful, lugubrious, woe-begone.
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
Run	n	The act of running. 2. the route taken while running. 3. flow of liquid. 4. creek. 5. amount of something made. 6. faster than a walk. 7. gallop. 8. interval of distance or time; a linear measurement, as foot run etc.. 9. enclosure for animals. 10. nautical equipment. 11. unraveled stitches. 12. a point scored in some games. 13. a gangway. 14. planks, bridging gaps or rough ground, and used by workmen for transporting materials, especially by wheelbarrow or hod.
Run	vb	To move quickly on two feet. 2. to move quickly; to move or spread quickly; to cause to move quickly. 3. to be in charge of. 4. to flow; to have a liquid flowing from; to make a liquid flow. 5. to extend in space or through a range. 6. to sail a boat with the wind coming from behind. 7. to extend in time, to last, to continue; to make something extend in space. 8. of a machine, to be operating normally; to make a machine operate. 9. to execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program. 10. to compete in a race. 11. to be a candidate in an election; to make run in a race or an election. 12. to be presented in one of the media; to print or broadcast in the media. 13. to leak, spread or bleed in an undesirable fashion. 14. to go through without stopping. 15. to transport someone or something. 16. to smuggle illegal goods — see smuggle. 17. of fish, to migrate for spawning. 18. of stitches, to unravel. 19. to flee away from a danger or towards help
Run	phr	"Against the Run of Play" - contrary to the flow of a game.
Run	phr	"An Also-ran" - an unsuccessful competitor.
Run	phr	"At the Run" - running.
Run	phr	"Be Run Down" - be in a weak state of health.
Run	phr	"Do a Dry Run" - have a rehearsal.
Run	phr	'Have the Run of the House" - to have free access and freedom to make use of what it offers. 2. be free to go anywhere in a house.
Run	phr	"In the Long Run" - in the end; ultimately.
Run	phr	"In the Running" - in an event with a good//poor chance of winning.
Run	phr	"Make the Running" - force or set the pace; take the initiative.
Run	phr	"In the Run Up to" - before, prior to, leading to an event, occasion etc.
Run	phr	"On the Run" - escaping, running away; fleeing from custody. 2. hurrying about from place to place.
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. 2. follow persistently; pursue in the hope of attracting, as an attractive person. 3. run to try to catch up with a person, because he or she has forgotten something.
Run	phr	"Run Against" - happen to meet. 2. compete against, especially.
Run	phr	"Run Aground" - touch and become fixed on rocks,or the seabed in shallow water.
Run	phr	"Run Along" - a command to a junior or subordinate to leave or go away; be off with you!
Run	phr	"Run a Mile from" - said of a person who you are anxious and careful to avoid somebody who is boring, conceited, over-talkative. 2. run quickly away from somebody, something dangerous or life threatening (in panic)
Run	phr	"Run a Red Light" - to pass through the traffic light when the red light is on. 2. to enter a restricted area; to trespass. 3. to falsely accuse someone of wrongdoing. 4. to pass a political bill that is clearly based on false premises. 5. to claim a position that one does not rightfully earn.
Run	phr	"Run At" - run towards somebody as if to attack them. 2. run with the aim of jumping over something.
Run	phr	"Run a Tight Ship" - to manage efficiently an organization.
Run	phr	"Run Away" - get away by running, escape, fleeing, absconding; elope. 2. bolt as a horse.
Run	phr	"Run Away from" - escape from, usually because the life unpleasant. 2. avoid something or somebody because one is shy; frightened, lacking confidence.
Run	phr	"Run Away With" - carry off or steal property. 2. win a contest, match, prize etc clearly or easily. 3. accept a notion hastily; win easily; or accept unthinkingly. 4. leave home to have a relationship without parental consent of family approval. 5. consume, use up a great deal of cash, money. 6. deprive of self control or common sense by misleading someone with an unfounded idea, notion etc. 7. gain complete control of, dominate.
Run	phr	"Run Back" - wind a film, cassette, video etc in reverse so that it can be viewed or heard again.
Run	phr	"Run Back Over" - review, reconsider an event, one's career, relationship etc.
Run	phr	"Run Behind" - not keep pace with one's timetable for a meeting, appointment, schedule etc.
Run	phr	"Run by" - ask one's opinion, comment, advice on some matter. 2. to inform someone briefly of the main points of an idea. 3. to bring an idea or proposal to the attention of someone (esp. in order to obtain their opinion about. 4. to briefly stop at a location for a particular purpose.
Run	phr	"Run Down" - knock down to the ground; collide with. 2. reduce the strength by decline in size or numbers. 3. cause to suffer a loss of power, through neglect, age etc. 3. stop as an unwound clock. 4. become tired, feeble from overwork, lack of sleep or nourishment. 5. discover eventually after a long and thorough search. 6. disparage, denigrate; belittle, criticize unkindly.
Run	phr	"Run Down to" - stretched as far as, extend to a river, road etc.
Run	phr	"Run Dry" - cease to flow; stop flowing; be exhausted.
Run	phr	"Run for" - offer oneself or stand as a candidate.
Run	phr	"Run for It" - seek safely by fleeing; escaping. 2. make a dash for, or run quickly to safety.
Run	phr	"Run for Dear Life" - leave, depart, escape quickly because one's life is in danger.
Run	phr	"Run for the Hills" - flee; get away.
Run	phr	"Run for the Roses" - a hard-fought competition or demanding challenge of any kind.
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" - of an electrical system producing excessive heat while operating .2. to run ahead of schedule.
Run	phr	"Run Hot and Cold" - to alternate between two opposite extremes, such as enthusiasm and disinterest or success and failure.
Run	phr	"Run In" - run in carefully an engine, machine or vehicle in the new or early stages of it use. 2. be arrested; arrest somebody; take into custody.
Run	phr	"Run in One's Blood" - of traits inherited.
Run	phr	"Run in One's Head" - to linger in one's memory.
Run	phr	"Run Into (Somebody)" - strike, collide with. 2. meet accidentally, encounter by chance. 3. reach or amount to a specified figure or number. 4. be continuous or coalesce. 5. enter a period and/or area of bad weather.
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. 2. work, play energetically unto the point of exhaustion.
Run	phr	"Run Like a Top" - operate flawlessly and smoothly.
Run	phr	"Run Off" - flee, escape. 2. produce copies on a machines. 3. decide a race, athletic contest, etc after a series of heats or in the case of a tie. 5. flow or cause to flow away, as from a vessel. 5. write or recite fluently. 6. digress suddenly. 7. reproduce by printing.
Run	phr	"Run Off at the Mouth" - talk incessantly.
Run	phr	"Run Off One's Feet" - be extremely business; work very hard. 2. to keep a person very busy on some physical task.
Run	phr	"Run Off with" - leave in the company of somebody, usually somebody the partner, husband or wife of another. 2. steal or carry away. run away with the money, takings, possessions of others.
Run	phr	"Run of Play" - the overall pace, or flow of a game, situating in a series of action, especially in sports.
Run	phr	"Run of the Mill" - that which is average in kind, class or quality.
Run	phr	"Run On" - of written character, as a ligature: run together. 2. continue in operation; flow, continue without a break often annoyingly or monotonously; elapse. 4. speak volubly; talk incessantly. 5. have a s a subject, be concerned with a discussion.
Run	phr	"Run One's Eye Over" - examine somebody or something very carefully in order to estimate its value or merits.
Run	phr	"Run One's Finger's Through One's Hair" - pass one's finger nervously through one's hair.
Run	phr	"Run One's Head Against Stone Wall" - face and be frustrated by an insuperable problem or obstacle while trying to do something. 2. hit, or run into a brick wall.
Run	phr	"Run One's Own Ship" - to do things and organize subordinates in one's own way.
Run	phr	"Run On Something" - great demand foe something.
Run	phr	"Run Onto" - enter; go onto. 2. continue traveling towards.
Run	phr	"Run Out" - come to and end, be ended, use up; expire, be ended; be no longer valid. 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 compete to a required or specified position.
Run	phr	"Run Out of" - have used up, have no more of. 2. finish, exhaust supplies or commodities; ideas, patience.
Run	phr	"Run Out of Steam" - move more slowly, or halt because the original driving force is lacking. 2. to lose one's energy and enthusiasm.
Run	phr	"Run Out On" - desert somebody, abandon another, who needs or expect one's support, as a friend, family, associate.
Run	phr	"Run Over" - overflow. 2. of a driver of a motor vehicle : pass over, knock down and pass over a person's body, often killing or causing crushing injury to them. 3. study, read, say or repeat quickly, in order to learn it or refresh one's memory. 4. touch a keyboard, or piano keys etc in quick succession. 2. go on a quick journey or visit.
Run	phr	"Run Over With" - show an abundance of, overflow with enthusiasm etc.
Run	phr	"Run Roughshod Over" - to act without restraint. 2. to act without consideration of others needs, wants, feelings.
Run	phr	"Run Short of" - become or run low in number; become depleted, having too little left. 3. have little left or remaining of.
Run	phr	"Run the Show" - dominate in an undertaking.
Run	phr	"Run Through" - act, perform, especially to rehearse briefly. 2. peruse; review, summarize, pass or skip through. 3. deal successively through. 4. consume one's wealth or fortune by foolish and/or reckless spending. 5. pass through quickly by running. 6. pervade. 7. draw a line through. 8. play part of a film, video etc by passing it through a machine.
Run	phr	"Run Through with" - pierce with a weapon.
Run	phr	"Run to" - have the ability or money for; have enough money to cover to afford. 2. reach an amount or number; reach enough. 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 and difficult search; locate a person, prisoner etc.
Run	phr	"Run to Fat" - become too fat by overeating or lack of sufficient exercise
Run	phr	"Run Together" - to mingle.
Run	phr	"Run to Ground" - to discover the whreabouts of somebody.
Run	phr	"Run to Meet" - anticipate (one's troubles etc)
Run	phr	"Run to Seed" - cease flowering as seed develops. 2. become degenerative, unkempt, shabby, ineffective or exhausted. 3. to deteriorate after a promising start.
Run	phr	"Run Up" - allow to accumulate, (a debt, expenses) quickly). 2. build or make hurriedly or in emergency from nearby material way. 3. raise or hoist a flag up a flagpole. 4. grow quickly. 5. rise sharply 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, encounter come face to face with difficulties, problems obstacles etc., etc.
Run	phr	"Run Upon" - of one's thoughts: be engrossed, dwell upon.
Run	phr	"Run Wild" - grow unchecked or undisciplined or untrained.
Run	phr	"Run With Something" - to take advantage of some current development.
Run	phr	'Run with the Hare and Hunt with the Hound" - keep in friendly with opposing parties or sides.
Run	phr	"Still Waters Run Deep" - somebody can be more emotional/knowledgeable than he/she firsts appears.
Run	phr	"With a Run" - suddenly, abruptly.
Runabout	n	A motor boat; a light car, a light aircraft.
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.
Runaway helpline	n	A telephone service for those who run away, been forced to leave home, are thinking about it or are worried about someone who might be considering doing so.
Run-back	n	The act or gesture of taking someone by car to their house. 2. the rewind a film, cassette, video, etc.
Run-down	n	A reduction in numbers. 2. giving of a detailed analysis, information, and briefing.
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	Resembling a rune.
Runer	n	A Gothic bard.
Rune-stave	n	A runic letter, staff or symbol; a rune-staff.
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.
Rung	phr	"Rungs Up a Ladder" - gradual steps to an ultimate goal.
Run-holder	n	One who owns or leases land, generally to run or farm sheep.
Run-in	n	The approach to an action or event. 2. colloquial: a quarrel.
Runless	adj	Without a run in baseball or cricket. 2. of stockings: not susceptible to runs.
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. 7. bearers along which anything slides. 8. the supports of a drawer. 9 horizontal timbers supporting the bearers or joists, for shuttering.
Runner	phr	"Do a Runner" - leave, hastily abscond.
Runnerless	n	Of certain plant, as the strawberry, not producing runners.
Runner's knee	n	Any of the various overuse injuries involving pain around the knee cap.
Runner-up	n	The competitor or team taking second place. 2. an animal that takes the second prize.
Runniness	n	A liquidy state or quality.
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 (and, out of) the Running" - in an event with a good//poor chance of winning.
Running	phr	"Make the Running" - force or set the pace; take the initiative.
Running	phr	"Running In" - running a new machine with a light load only until all running parts are working sweetly.
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 headline	n	A running head: a head printed at the top of a number of consecutive pages of a book etc.
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	Shoes for athletics with sharp spikes in the soles.
Running sore	n	A suppurating sore.
Running speech	n	The continuous sound of spoken dialogue from which the listener is able to distinguish individual words and sentences.
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	The overall ? pace, or flow of a game, situating in a series of action, especially in sports.
Run-of-the-mill	adj	Ordinary, undistinguished.
Run-on	n	Printing: appended or added matter.
Run-out	n	The portion of a motion-picture film immediately following the last frame of the picture itself.
Run-through	n	A rehearsal. 2. a brief survey.
Run time	n	Runtime is the period of time when a program is running. It begins when a program is opened (or executed) and ends with the program is quit or closed. It is a technical term, used most often in software development. It is commonly seen in the context of a "run-time error," which is an error that occurs while a program is running. 2. the time a film or television program runs.
Run-up	n	The lead-up to an event. 2. the period preceding an important event.
Runway	n	A specially prepared surface along which air-crafts 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 theater, 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 Worth 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-like	adj	Resembling or resembling any marsh or rush plant.
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. any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants. 2. the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water. 3. a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi. 4. a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture
Rust	vb	To become coated with oxide. 2. to become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid. 3. to cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
Rust	adj	Of the brown color of rust.
Rust	phr	"Rust off" - to come apart fro the process of rusting.
Rust belt	n	An area of once profitable industry, esp. in the American Midwest and north-eastern states.
Rusted	adj	Having accumulated rust.
Rustful	adj	Full of rust; resembling rust,, causing rust, rusty.
Rustily	adv	In a rusty way.
Rustiness	n	Ineptitude of awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice. 2. the condition of being coated or clogged with rust.
Rustless	adj	Without rust.
Rustlessness	n	The state or condition of being rustless.
Rustlike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of rust; rust-like.
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.
Rusty	phr	"To Turn Rusty" - like a rusty bolt that will not turn; obstinate, surly or ill-tempered.
Rusty-back fern	n	Any of several ferns with rust-coloured sori or scales on the fronds; (in later use) specifically Asplenium ceterach (family Aspleniaceae), a European fern which has alternately lobed, lanceolate leaves densely covered beneath with scales which become reddish-brown with maturity.
Rusty-coal	n	Coal having a brown discoloration owing to atmospheric exposure.
Rusty-dusty	n	A person's buttocks.
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.
Ruthlessness	n	The state or quality of being ruthless.
Ruthness	n	The state or quality of being sorrow, contrite, regretful.