Old English | sp | 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 | |
Ruddied | adj | |
Ruddiness | n | |
Ruddish | adj | |
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, ruddish 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 |
Run | n | |
Run | vb | |
Run | phr | "In the Run to" - |
Run | phr | "Run a Bath" - |
Run | phr | "Run About" - |
Run | phr | "Run After" - |
Run | phr | "Run Aground" - |
Run | phr | "Run Away" - |
Run | phr | "Run Away with" - |
Run | phr | "Run Along" - |
Run | phr | "Run a Mile" |
Run | phr | "Run a Red Light" - |
Run | phr | "Run Back" - |
Run | phr | "Run by" - |
Run | phr | "Run Down" - |
Run | phr | "Run for It" - |
Run | phr | "Run for the Roses" - |
Run | phr | "Run Hot and Cold" |
Run | phr | "Run In" - |
Run | phr | "Run Into" - |
Run | phr | "Run Into the Ground" - |
Run | phr | "Run Like a Top" - |
Run | phr | "Run Off" - |
Run | phr | "Run Off at the Mouth" - |
Run | phr | "Run Off with" - |
Run | phr | "Run of the Mill" - |
Run | phr | "Run On" - |
Run | phr | "Run Out" - |
Run | phr | "Run Roughshod Over" - |
Run | phr | "Run Through" - |
Run | phr | "Run Up" |
Run | phr | "Run Up Against" - |
Run | phr | "Run Wild" - |
Runaway | n | |
Run-back | n | |
Run book | n | |
Run-down | v | |
Rundle | n | A small stream or rivulet, brooklet, watercourse, gully, rojo, burn, bourn, ea, yea, rindle, runnel |
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 | |
Rune-stave | n | A runic letter 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 | |
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 organisations, tow truck-operators, journalists, ambulance chaser etc. |
Runnerless | n | |
Runner-up | n | |
Runneth | vb | |
Running | n | |
Run-off | n | |
Run-of-play | n | |
Run-out | n | |
Run-through | n | |
Run-up | n | |
Runner-up | n | A person or animal that takes the second prize. |
Runnily | adv | |
Runniness | n | |
Running | n | Of water, streams, etc. Flowing. |
Running | adj | |
Running | adv | |
Running board | n | |
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-headline | n | |
Running iron | n | |
Running knot | n | |
Runningly | adv | |
Running man | n | |
Running shoes | n | |
Running speech | n | |
Running stitch | n | |
Running water | n | |
Runny | adj | |
Run-through | n | |
Run time | n | |
Run-up | n | The lead-up to an event. |
Runway | n | Any artificial track or gangway |
Rure | adj | Scabby, leprous, scaly, crusty, rindhard. |
Rush | n | |
Rushen | adj | Made of rushes, or a rush |
Rust | n | A red, orange or tawny formed upon the surface of iron |
Rust | vb | |
Rust belt | n | |
Rusty | adj | |
Ruth | n | The quality of being compassionate, pitifulness; feeling sorrow for another, compassion pity. 2. contrition, grief, distress, lamentation. 3. matter or occasion of sorrow. regret |
Ruthful | adj | |
Ruthless | adj | |
Ruthness | n |
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