| ruff | 1. A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children. "Here to-morrow with his best ruff on." (Shak) "His gravity is much lessened since the late proclamation came out against ruffs; . . . They were come to that height of excess herein, that twenty shillings were used to be paid for starching of a ruff." (Howell) 2. Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name. "I reared this flower; . . . Soft on the paper ruff its leaves I spread." (Pope) 3. An exhibition of pride or haughtiness. "How many princes . . . In the ruff of all their glory, have been taken down from the head of a conquering army to the wheel of the victor's chariot!" (L'Estrange) 4. Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct. "To ruffle it out in a riotous ruff." (Latimer) 5. A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle. 6. <machinery> A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. 7. <zoology> A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird. 8. <zoology> A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, or Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colours, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve. A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck. Origin: Of uncertain origin: cf. Icel. Rfinn rough, uncombed, Pr. Ruf rude, rough, Sp. Rufo frizzed, crisp, curled, G. Raufen to pluck, fight, rupfen to pluck, pull, E. Rough. Cf. Ruffle to wrinkle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| ruffe | <zoology> A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris). Synonym: pope, blacktail, and stone, or striped, perch. Origin: OE. Ruffe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ruffed | Furnished with a ruff. Ruffed grouse, a species of lemur (lemur varius) having a conspicuous ruff on the sides of the head. Its colour is varied with black and white. Synonym: ruffed maucaco. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ruffin | Disordered. "His ruffin rainment all was stained with blood." (Spenser) See: Ruffian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Ruffini's corpuscles | Sensory end-structures in the subcutaneous connective tissues of the fingers, consisting of an ovoid capsule within which the sensory fibre ends with numerous collateral knobs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ruffini, Angelo | <person> Italian histologist, 1864-1929. See: Ruffini's corpuscles, flower-spray organ of Ruffini. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ruffle | 1. <cell biology> Projections at the leading edge of a crawling cell. In time lapse films the active edge appears to ruffle. The protrusions are apparently supported by a microfilament meshwork and can move centripetally over the dorsal surface of a cell in culture. 2. <zoology> The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Ootheca. Ruffle of a boot, the top turned down, and scalloped or plaited. 3. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle. That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill. 4. A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle. 5. To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion. "The fantastic revelries . . . That so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile." (I. Taylor) "She smoothed the ruffled seas." (Dryden) Origin: From Ruff a plaited collar, a drum beat, a tumult: cf. OD. Ruyffelen to wrinkle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pupillary ruff | The dark-brown, wrinkled rim of the normal pupil. This is the posterior pigment epithelium of the iris showing itself at the pupillary margin. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Ruffini's corpuscle |
a type of lamellated corpuscle in the dermis that is a slowly-adapting receptor for sensations of continuous pressure. Called also Ruffini's cylinder or ending.
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| Ruffini's b. |
see under corpuscle.
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| Ruffini's c. |
a type of lamellated corpuscle in the dermis that is a slowly-adapting receptor for sensations of continuous pressure. Called also Ruffini's cylinder or ending.
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| Ruffini's corpuscle (brush, cylinder, ending, organs) |
see under corpuscle.
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| Ruffini's e. |
see under corpuscle.
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| ruff | (cards) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit |
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| ruff | common Eurasian sandpiper |
| ruff | a high tight collar |
| ruff | play a trump, in card games |
| ruff | valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada |
| ruff | a cruel and brutal fellow |
| ruff | violent lawless behavior |
| ruff | violent and lawless |
| ruff | a noisy fight |
| ruff | a high tight collar |
| ruff | a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim |
| ruff | pleat or gather into a ruffle |
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