Rud"dle, n. A riddle or sieve. [Obs.] Holland.
Rud"dle, n. [See Rud; cf. Reddle.] (Min.) A species of red earth
colored by iron sesquioxide; red ocher.
Rud"dle, v. t. To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge. "Their ruddled
cheeks." Thackeray.
A fair sheep newly ruddled.
Lady M. W. Montagu.
Rud"dock (?), n. [AS. ruddic; cf. W. rhuddog the redbreast. √113.
See Rud, n.] [Written also raddock.] 1. (Zoöl.) The European robin.
"The tame ruddock and the coward kite." Chaucer.
2. A piece of gold money; -- probably because the gold of coins was
often reddened by copper alloy. Called also red ruddock, and golden
ruddock. [Obs.]
Great pieces of gold . . . red ruddocks.
Florio.
Rud"dy (?), a. [Compar. Ruddier (?); superl. Ruddiest.] [AS. rudig. See
Rud, n.] 1. Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy
flame. Milton.
They were more ruddy in body than rubies.
Lam. iv. 7.
2. Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high
health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips. Dryden.
Ruddy duck (Zoöl.), an American duck (Erismatura rubida) having a broad
bill and a wedge-shaped tail composed of stiff, sharp feathers. The
adult male is rich brownish red on the back, sides, and neck, black on
the top of the head, nape, wings, and tail, and white on the cheeks.
The female and young male are dull brown mixed with blackish on the
back; grayish below. Called also dunbird, dundiver, ruddy diver,
stifftail, spinetail, hardhead, sleepy duck, fool duck, spoonbill, etc.
-- Ruddy plover (Zoöl.) the sanderling.
Rud"dy, v. t. To make ruddy. [R.] Sir W. Scott.
Rude (?), a. [Compar. Ruder (?); superl. Rudest.] [F., fr. L. rudis.]
1. Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or
refinement; coarse.
Such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had formed.
Milton.
2. Hence, specifically: (a) Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely
finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material
things; as, rude workmanship. "Rude was the cloth." Chaucer.
Rude and unpolished stones.
Bp. Stillingfleet.
The heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
Milton.
(b) Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish;
ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of persons, or of conduct, skill,
and the like. "Mine ancestors were rude." Chaucer.
He was but rude in the profession of arms.
Sir H. Wotton.
the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Gray.
(c) Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; -- said
of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter.
[Clouds] pushed with winds, rude in their shock.
Milton.
The rude agitation [of water] breaks it into foam.
Boyle.
(d) Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and
the like; as, the rude shock of armies. (e) Not finished or complete;
inelegant; lacking chasteness or elegance; not in good taste;
unsatisfactory in mode of treatment; -- said of literature, language,
style, and the like. "The rude Irish books." Spenser.
Rude am I in my speech.
Shak.
Unblemished by my rude translation.
Dryden.
Syn. -- Impertinent; rough; uneven; shapeless; unfashioned; rugged;
artless; unpolished; uncouth; inelegant; rustic; coarse; vulgar;
clownish; raw; unskillful; untaught; illiterate; ignorant; uncivil;
impolite; saucy; impudent; insolent; surly; currish; churlish; brutal;
uncivilized; barbarous; savage; violent; fierce; tumultuous; turbulent;
impetuous; boisterous; harsh; inclement; severe. See Impertiment.
-- Rude"ly (#), adv. -- Rude"ness, n.
Ru"den*ture (?; 135), n. [F., fr. L. rudens a rope.] (Arch.) Cabling.
See Cabling. gwilt.
Ru"de*ra*ry (?), a. [L. ruderarius, fr. rudus, ruderis, stones crushed
and mixed with lime, old rubbish.] Of or pertaining to rubbish.. [Obs.]
Bailey.
Rudes"by (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] An uncivil, turbulent fellow.
[Obs.] Shak.
Rü"des*heim`er (?), n. A German wine made near Rüdesheim, on the Rhine.
Ru"di*ment (?), n. [L. rudimentum, fr. rudis unwrought, ignorant, rude:
cf. F. rudiment. See Rude.] 1. That which is unformed or undeveloped;
the principle which lies at the bottom of any development; an
unfinished beginning.
but I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit Those rudiments,
and see before thine eyes The monarchies of the earth.
Milton.
the single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.