Antimony rubber, an elastic durable variety of vulcanized caoutchouc of
a red color. It contains antimony sulphide as an important constituent.
-- Hard rubber, a kind of vulcanized caoutchouc which nearly resembles
horn in texture, rigidity, etc. -- India rubber, caoutchouc. See
Caoutchouc. -- Rubber cloth, cloth covered with caoutchouc for
excluding water or moisture. -- Rubber dam (Dentistry), a shield of
thin sheet rubber clasped around a tooth to exclude saliva from the
tooth.
Rub"bidge (?), n. Rubbish. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Rub"bing, a. & n. from Rub, v.
Rub"bish (?), n. [OE. robows, robeux, rubble, originally an Old French
plural from an assumed dim. of robe, probably in the sense of trash;
cf. It. robaccia trash, roba stuff, goods, wares, robe. Thus,
etymologically rubbish is the pl. of rubble. See Robe, and cf. Rubble.]
Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash;
especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins;
débris.
What rubbish and what offal!
Shak.
he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie.
Dryden.
Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin.
Rub"bish (?), a. Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of
rubbish; trashy. De Quincey.
Rub"ble (?), n. [From an assumed Old French dim. of robe See Rubbish.]
1. Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in
coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
Inside [the wall] there was rubble or mortar.
Jowett (Thucyd.).
2. 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. Brande & C.
3. (Geol.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the
alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. Lyell.
4. pl. The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard,
bran, etc. [Prov. Eng.] Simmonds.
Coursed rubble, rubble masonry in which courses are formed by leveling
off the work at certain heights.
Rub"ble*stone` (?), n. See Rubble, 1 and 2.
Rub"ble*work` (?), n. Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are
irregular in size and shape.
Rub"bly (?), a. Relating to, or containing, rubble.
Ru*bed"i*nous (?), a. [L. rubedo redness, fr. rubere to be red.]
Reddish. [R.] M. Stuart.
Ru`be*fa"cient (?), a. [L. rubefaciens, p. pr. of rubefacere to make
red; rubere to be red + facere to make.] Making red. -- n. (Med.) An
external application which produces redness of the skin.
Ru`be*fac"tion (?), n. The act or process of making red.
Ru"be*let (r"b*lt), n. A little ruby. Herrick.
||Ru*bel"la (?), n. [NL., fr. L. rubellus reddish.] (Med.) An acute
||specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that
||of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also
||German measles.
Ru*belle" (?), n. [L. rubellus reddish.] A red color used in enameling.
Weale.
Ru"bel*lite (?), n. [L. rubellus reddish, dim. of ruber red.] (Min.) A
variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby,
and containing lithium.
||Ru*be"o*la (?), n. [NL., fr. L. ruber red.] (Med.) (a) the measles.
||(b) Rubella.
Ru`ber*y*thrin"ic (?), a. [L. ruber red + erythrin.] (Chem.) Pertaining
to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow
crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained.
Ru*bes"cence (?), n. The quality or state of being rubescent; a
reddening; a flush.
Ru*bes"cent (?), a. [L. rubescens, -entis, p. pr. of rubescere to grow
red, v. incho from rubere to be red: cf. F. rubescent. See Ruby.]
Growing or becoming red; tending to redness.
Ru`bi*a"ceous (?), a. [L. rubia madder, fr. rubeus red.] (Bot.) Of or
pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceæ) 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.
Ru"bi*a*cin (?), n. [L. rubia madder, fr. rubeus red.] (Chem) A
substance found in madder root, and probably identical with
ruberythrinic acid.
Ru"bi*an (?), n. [L. rubia madder, fr. rubeus red.] (Chem.) One of
several color-producing glycosides found in madder root.
Ru`bi*an"ic (?), a. (Chem.) pertaining to, or derived from, rubian;
specifically, designating an acid called also ruberythrinic acid.
[Obs.]
Ru" bi*ble (?), n. A ribble. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Ru"bi*can (?), a. [F.] Colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with
flecks of white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses.
Smart.
Ru"bi*celle (?), n. [Cf. F. rubacelle, rubicelle, fr. L. rubeus red,
reddish.] (Min.) A variety of ruby of a yellowish red color, from
Brazil.
Ru"bi*con (?), n. (Anc. geog.) A small river which separated Italy from
Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Cæsar.
By leading an army across this river, contrary to the prohibition of
the civil government at Rome, Cæsar precipitated the civil war which
resulted in the death of Pompey and the overthrow of the senate; hence,
the phrase to pass or cross the Rubicon signifies to take the decisive
step by which one is committed to a hazardous enterprise from which
there is no retreat.
Ru"bi*cund (?), a. [L. rubicundus, fr. rubere to be red, akin to ruber
red. See Red.] Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. "His rubicund face."
Longfellow.
Ru`bi*cun"di*ty (?), n. [LL. rubicunditas.] The quality or state of
being rubicund; ruddiness.
To parade your rubicundity and gray hairs.
Walpole.
Ru*bid"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to rubidium; containing
rubidium.
Ru"bi*dine (? or ?), n. (Chem.) 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.
Ru*bid"i*um (?), n. [NL., fr. L. rubidus red, fr. rubere to be red. So
called from two dark red spectroscopic lines by means of which it was
discovered in the lepidolite from Rozena, Moravia. See Rubicund.]
(Chem.) 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.
Ru*bif"ic (?), a. [L. ruber red + facere to make.] Making red; as,
rubific rays. Grew.
Ru`bi*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. rubification.] The act of making red.
Howell.
Ru"bi*form (?), a. [L. ruber red + -form.] Having the nature or quality
of red; as, the rubiform rays of the sun. [R.] Sir I. newton.
Ru"bi*fy (?), v. t. [Cf. F. rubéfier. See Rubific.] To redden. [R.]
"Waters rubifying." Chaucer.
{ Ru*big"i*nose` (?), Ru*big"i*nous (?) }, a. [L. rubiginosus, fr.
rubigo, robigo, rust: cf. F. rubigineux.] (Bot.) Having the appearance
or color of iron rust; rusty- looking.
||Ru*bi"go (?), n. [L. rubigo, robigo, rust of metals, rust, blight.]
||(bot.) same as Rust, n., 2.
Ru"bin (?), n. [Cf. LL. rubinus, It. rubino. See Ruby.] A ruby. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Ru"bi*ous (?), a. [L. rubeus, fr. rubere to be red. See Rouge.] Red;
ruddy. [Obs.] Shak.
Ru`bi*re"tin (?), n. [Rubian + Gr. &?; resin.] (Chem.) One of the red
dye products extracted from madder root, and probably identical with
ruberythrinic acid.
Ru"ble (?), n. [Russ. ruble.] 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. [Written also rouble.]
Ru"bric (?), n. [OE. rubriche, OF. rubriche, F. rubrique ( cf. it.
rubrica), fr. L. rubrica red earth for coloring, red chalk, the title
of a law (because written in red), fr. ruber red. See red.] That part
of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored
red, to distinguish it from other portions. Hence, specifically: (a) A
titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of
printing; also, the initial letters, etc., when printed in red. (b)
(Law books) The title of a statute; -- so called as being anciently
written in red letters. Bell. (c) (Liturgies) 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.
All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the
rubrics.
Hook.
(d) Hence, that which is established or settled, as by authority; a
thing definitely settled or fixed. Cowper.
Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions
before Christianity.
De Quincey.
Ru"bric, v. t. To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate. [R.] Johnson.
{ Ru"bric (?), Ru"bric*al (?) }, a. 1. Colored in, or marked with, red;
placed in rubrics.
What though my name stood rubric on the walls Or plaistered posts,
with claps, in capitals?
Pope.
2. Of or pertaining to the rubric or rubrics. "Rubrical
eccentricities." C. Kingsley.
Ru"bri*cate (?), a. [L. rubricatus p. p. of rubricare to color red. See
Rubric, n.] Marked with red. Sp&?;lmman.
Ru"bri*cate (?), v. t. To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as
in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form. Foxe.
A system . . . according to which the thoughts of men were to be
classed and rubricated forever after.
Hare.
{ Ru*bri"cian (?), Ru"bri*cist (?) }, n. One skilled in, or tenaciously
adhering to, the rubric or rubrics.