Syn. -- Predominant; chief; controlling; directing; guiding; governing;
prevailing; prevalent.
Rul"ing, n. 1. The act of one who rules; ruled lines.
2. (Law) A decision or rule of a judge or a court, especially an oral
decision, as in excluding evidence.
Rul"ing*ly, adv. In a ruling manner; so as to rule.
Rul"li*chies (rl"l*chz), n. pl. [Cf. D. rolletje a little roll.]
Chopped meat stuffed into small bags of tripe. They are cut in slices
and fried. [Local, New York]
Rul"y (?), a. [From Rule.] Orderly; easily restrained; -- opposed to
unruly. [Obs.] Gascoigne.
Rum (?), n. [probably shortened from Prov. E. rumbullion a great
tumult, formerly applied in the island of Barbadoes to an intoxicating
liquor.] A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or
from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or
from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used
colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor.
Rum bud, a grog blossom. [Colloq.] -- Rum shrub, a drink composed of
rum, water, sugar, and lime juice or lemon juice, with some flavoring
extract.
Rum, a. [Formerly rome, a slang word for good; possibly of Gypsy
origin; cf. Gypsy rom a husband, a gypsy.] Old-fashioned; queer; odd;
as, a rum idea; a rum fellow. [Slang] Dickens.
Rum, n. A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson. [Slang, Obs.]
Swift.
Rum"ble (?), v. i. [OE. romblen, akin to D. rommelen, G. rumpeln, Dan.
rumle; cf. Icel. rymja to roar.] 1. To make a low, heavy, continued
sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.
In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore.
Surrey.
The people cried and rombled up and down.
Chaucer.