Those rough rug-headed kerns.
Shak.
Rug"in (?), n. A nappy cloth. [Obs.] Wiseman.
Ru"gine (?), n. [F.] (Surg.) An instrument for scraping the periosteum
from bones; a raspatory.
Ru"gine, v. t. [F. ruginer to scrape.] To scrape or rasp, as a bone; to
scale. [R.] Wiseman.
||Ru*go"sa (?), n. pl. [NL. See Rugose.] (Paleon.) An extinct tribe of
||fossil corals, including numerous species, many of them of large
||size. They are characteristic of the Paleozoic formations. The
||radiating septs, when present, are usually in multiples of four. See
||Cyathophylloid.
Ru*gose" (?), a. [L. rugosus, r. ruga a wrinkle.] Wrinkled; full of
wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the
spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.
Ru*gos"i*ty (?), n. [L. rugositas: cf. F. rugosité.] The quality or
state of being rugose.
Ru"gous (?), a. [Cf. F. rugueux.] Wrinkled; rugose.
Ru`gu*lose" (?), a. Somewhat rugose.
Ruhm"korff's coil` (?). [So called from its inventor, Ruhmkorff, a
german physicist.] (Elec.) See Induction coil, under Induction.
Ru"in (?), n. [OE. ruine, F. ruine, fr. L. ruina, fr. ruere, rutum, to
fall with violence, to rush or tumble down.] 1. The act of falling or
tumbling down; fall. [Obs.] "His ruin startled the other steeds."
Chapman.
2. Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its
object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a
ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin
of health or hopes. "Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!" Gray.
3. That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay;
as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a
destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like.
The Veian and the Gabian towers shall fall, And one promiscuous
ruin cover all; Nor, after length of years, a stone betray The
place where once the very ruins lay.
Addison.
The labor of a day will not build up a virtuous habit on the ruins
of an old and vicious character.
Buckminster.
4. The state of being dcayed, or of having become ruined or worthless;
as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin.