Crossword-Solution: RUFF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ruff | n. | A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it. |
| Ruff | n. | The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led. |
| Ruff | v. i. & t. | To trump. |
| Ruff | n. | A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children. |
| Ruff | n. | Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name. |
| Ruff | n. | An exhibition of pride or haughtiness. |
| Ruff | n. | Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct. |
| Ruff | n. | A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle. |
| Ruff | n. | A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar. |
| Ruff | n. | A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird. |
| Ruff | n. | A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve. |
| Ruff | n. | A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck. |
| Ruff | v. t. | To ruffle; to disorder. |
| Ruff | v. t. | To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum. |
| Ruff | v. t. | To hit, as the prey, without fixing it. |
| Ruff | n. | Alt. of Ruffe |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with RUFF (5)
She saw her father’s face, with its bold brow, and reverend white beard that flowed over the old-fashioned Elizabethan ruff; her mother’s, too, with the look of heedful and anxious love which it always wore in her remembrance, and which, even since her death, had so often laid the impediment of a gentle remonstrance in her daughter’s pathway.
There were many rumors, some of which have vaguely drifted down to the present time, how that appearances indicated violence; that there were the marks of fingers on his throat, and the print of a bloody hand on his plaited ruff; and that his peaked beard was dishevelled, as if it had been fiercely clutched and pulled.
His lean face was dark by contrast, and ended in a curt black beard that looked Spanish and suggested an Elizabethan ruff.
Beside, What’s better and what’s all I care about, {240} Get you the thirteen scudi for the ruff! Love, does that please you? Ah, but what does he, The cousin! what does he to please you more? I am grown peaceful as old age to-night.
The hair stood up from her forehead in a boyish elf-lock, and its colour matched her auburn eyes flecked with black, and the little brown spot on her cheek, between the ear that was meant to have a rose behind it and the chin that should have rested on a ruff.
Quotes with RUFF (3)
I could have screamed, but I didn't. I could have fought, but I didn't. I just lay there and let it happen, wathcing the winter-white sky go gray above me. One wolf prodded his nose into my hand and agianst my cheek, casting a shadow along my face. His yellow eyes looked into mine as the other wolves moved me this way and that. I held onto those eyes for as long as I could. Yellow. And, up close, flecked brillantly with every shade of gold and hazel. I didn't want him to look…
Almondine To her, the scent and the memory of him were one. Where it lay strongest, the distant past came to her as if that morning: Taking a dead sparrow from her jaws, before she knew to hide such things. Guiding her to the floor, bending her knee until the arthritis made it stick, his palm hotsided on her ribs to measure her breaths and know where the pain began. And to comfort her. That had been the week before he went away. He was gone, she knew this, but something of hi…
Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise Hath chid down all the majesty of England; Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation, And that you sit as kings in your desires, Authority quite silent by your brawl, And you in ruff of your opinions clothed; What had you got? I'll tell you: you had taught How insolence and strong hand should prevail, How order should be…
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 59 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).