Ruly adjective [ From Rule .] Orderly; easily restrained; -- opposed to unruly . [ Obsolete] Gascoigne.

Rum noun [ probably shortened from Prov. English 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 adjective [ Formerly rome , a slang word for good; possibly of Gypsy origin; confer Gypsy rom a husband, a gypsy.] Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow. [ Slang] Dickens.

Rum noun A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson. [ Slang, Obsolete] Swift.

Rumble intransitive verb [ Middle English romblen , akin to Dutch rommelen , German rumpeln , Danish rumle ; confer Icelandic 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.

2. To murmur; to ripple.

To rumble gently down with murmur soft.

Spenser.

Rumble noun
1. A noisy report; rumor. [ Obsolete]

Delighting ever in rumble that is new.

Chaucer.

2. A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train.

Clamor and rumble , and ringing and clatter.

Tennyson.

Merged in the rumble of awakening day.

H. James.

3. A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.

Kit, well wrapped, . . . was in the rumble behind.

Dickens.

4. A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.

Rumble transitive verb To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble , noun , 4.

Rumbler noun One who, or that which, rumbles.

Rumbling adjective & noun from Rumble , intransitive verb

Rumblingly adverb In a rumbling manner.

Rumbo noun Grog. [ Obsolete] Sir W. Scott.

Rumbowline noun (Nautical) Same as Rombowline .

Rumen noun [ Latin rumen , - inis , the throat.]
1. (Anat.) The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag. See Illust. below.

2. The cud of a ruminant.

Rumicin noun (Chemistry) A yellow crystalline substance found in the root of yellow dock ( Rumex crispus ) and identical with chrysophanic acid .

Ruminal adjective [ Latin ruminalis .] (Zoology) Ruminant; ruminating. [ R.]

Ruminant adjective [ Latin ruminans , -antis , present participle: confer French ruminant . See Ruminate .] (Zoology) Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.

Ruminant noun (Zoology) A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.

Ruminantia noun plural [ New Latin ] (Zoology) A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies.

» The vegetable food, after the first mastication, enters the first stomach ( r ). It afterwards passes into the second ( n ), where it is moistened, and formed into pellets which the animal has the power of bringing back to the mouth to be chewed again, after which it is swallowed into the third stomach ( m ), whence it passes to the fourth ( s ), where it is finally digested.

Ruminantly adverb In a ruminant manner; by ruminating, or chewing the cud.

Ruminate intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Ruminated ; present participle & verbal noun Ruminating .] [ Latin ruminatus , past participle of ruminari , ruminare , from rumen , -inis , throat, akin to ructare to belch, erugere to belch out, Greek ..., Anglo-Saxon roccettan .]
1. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. "Cattle free to ruminate ." Wordsworth.

2. Fig.: To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect. Cowper.

Apart from the hope of the gospel, who is there that ruminates on the felicity of heaven?

I. Taylor.

Ruminate transitive verb
1. To chew over again.

2. Fig.: To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.

Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.

Dryden.

What I know
Is ruminated , plotted, and set down.

Shak.

Ruminate, Ruminated adjective (Botany) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.

Rumination noun [ Latin ruminatio : confer French rumination .]
1. The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud.

Rumination is given to animals to enable them at once to lay up a great store of food, and afterward to chew it.

Arbuthnot.

2. The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection.

Retiring full of rumination sad.

Thomson.

3. (Physiol.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man.

Ruminative adjective Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation.

Ruminator noun [ Latin ] One who ruminates or muses; a meditator.

Rumkin noun [ Confer Rummer , and see -kin .] A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel. [ Obsolete]

Rummage noun [ For roomage , from room ; hence originally, a making room, a packing away closely. See Room .]
1. (Nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage . [ Obsolete]

2. A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.

He has made such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony.

Walpole.

Rummage sale , a clearance sale of unclaimed goods in a public store, or of odds and ends which have accumulated in a shop. Simmonds.

Rummage transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rummaged ; present participle & verbal noun Rummaging .]
1. (Nautical) To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage , and romage . [ Obsolete]

They might bring away a great deal more than they do, if they would take pain in the romaging .

Hakluyt.

2. To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.

He . . . searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.

Howell.

What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account!

M. Arnold.

Rummage intransitive verb To search a place narrowly.

I have often rummaged for old books in Little Britain and Duck Lane.

Swift.

[ His house] was haunted with a jolly ghost, that . . .
. . . rummaged like a rat.

Tennyson.

Rummager noun
1. One who rummages.

2. (Nautical) A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager , and romager . [ Obsolete]

The master must provide a perfect mariner, called a romager , to range and bestow all merchandise.

Hakluyt.

Rummer noun [ Dutch roemer , romer , akin to German römer , Swedish remmare ; perhaps properly, Roman.] A large and tall glass, or drinking cup. [ Obsolete] J. Philips.

Rummy adjective Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

Rummy noun ; plural Rummies One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person. [ Low]

Rummy adjective [ See Rum , adjective ] Strange; odd. [ Slang]

Rumney noun A sort of Spanish wine. [ Obsolete]

Rumor noun [ French rumeur , Latin rumor ; confer rumificare , rumitare to rumor, Sanskrit ru to cry.] [ Written also rumour .]
1. A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety.

This rumor of him went forth throughout all Judea, and throughout all the region round about.

Luke vii. 17.

Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight.

Shak.

2. A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth; -- in this sense often personified.

Rumor next, and Chance,
And Tumult, and Confusion, all embroiled.

Milton.

3. A prolonged, indistinct noise. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Rumor transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rumored ; present participle & verbal noun Rumoring .] To report by rumor; to tell.

'T was rumored
My father 'scaped from out the citadel.

Dryden.

Rumorer noun A teller of news; especially, one who spreads false reports. Shak.

Rumorous adjective [ Confer Old French rumoreux , Italian rumoroso , romoroso .]
1. Of or pertaining to a rumor; of the nature of rumors. [ Obsolete] Sir H. Wotton.

2. Famous; notorious. [ Obsolete] Bale.

3. Murmuring. [ Obsolete or Poetic] Drayton.

Rump noun [ Middle English rumpe ; akin to Dutch romp trunk, body, LG. rump , German rumpf , Danish rumpe rump, Icelandic rumpr , Swedish rumpa rump, tail.]
1. The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.

2. Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef .

3. Fig.: The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant.

Rump Parliament , or The Rump (Eng. Hist.) , the remnant of the Long Parliament after the expulsion by Cromwell in 1648 of those who opposed his purposes. It was dissolved by Cromwell in 1653, but twice revived for brief sessions, ending finally in 1659.

The Rump abolished the House of Lords, the army abolished the Rump , and by this army of saints Cromwell governed.

Swift.

-- Rump steak , a beefsteak from the rump. Goldsmith.

Rump-fed adjective A Shakespearean word of uncertain meaning. Perhaps "fattened in the rump, pampered." "The rump-fed ronyon."

Rumper noun A member or a supporter of the Rump Parliament. I. Disraeli.

Rumple transitive verb & i. [ imperfect & past participle Rumpled present participle & verbal noun Rumpling ] [ Confer rimple , and Dutch rimpelen to wrinkle, rompelig rough, uneven, German rümpfen to wrinkle, Middle High German rümphen , Old High German rimpfan , Greek "ra`mfos the crooked beak of birds of prey, ... to roam.] To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.

They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.

Burke.

Rumple noun A fold or plait; a wrinkle. Dryden.

Rumpled adjective Wrinkled; crumpled. Pope.

Rumpless adjective Destitute of a rump.

Rumply adjective Rumpled. Carlyle.

Rumpus noun A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel. [ Colloq.]

Rumseller noun One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.