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_Kelly._
Isl. _raus-a_, jactabunde multa effutio, _ros-a_, extollere.
RUISE, RUSSE, RUSS, _s._
1. Boast.
_Douglas._
Isl. _raus_, gerrae, loquacitas.
_To mak a tume ruse_, to boast where there is no ground for it, but the reverse, Ang.
2. Commendation, praise, S.
_Ritson._
Su. G. _ros_, _roos_, praise.
~Ruser~, _s._ One habituated to self-commendation.
_Kelly._
RUs.h.i.+E, _s._ A broil, Fife.
Teut. _ruysch_, Isl. _rusk-a_, strepitus.
RUSKIE, _s._
1. A basket, made of twigs and straw, for carrying corn, Perths. Loth.
2. A vessel made of straw for holding meal.
_Kelly._
3. A bee-hive, S. B.
Su. G. _rusk_, congeries virgultorum; _rysia_, Germ. _reusche_, a bee-hive.
RUTE, _s._ A blow.
V. ~Rout~.
RUTE, _s._ A fowl.
V. ~Rood-goose~.
_Acts Marie._
RUTHER, _s._ An uproar, S.
_Ross._
A. S. _hruth_, commotio, C. B. _rhuthr_, impetus.
RUTHER, RUTHYR, _s._ Rudder.
_Wallace._
RUTILLAND, _part. pr._ Croaking.
_Lyndsay._
Teut. _rotel-en_, grunnire, murmurare.
RUTOUR, _s._ A spoiler.
V. ~Roysters~.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
_To_ RUVE, _v. a._
V. ~Roove~.
RUWITH, Uncertain.
_Sir Gawan._
S
This letter, as occurring in the beginning of words, cannot, in many instances, be viewed as a radical. While prefixed in some Goth.
dialects, it was thrown away in others; especially before _k_. The same term sometimes appears with _s_, and sometimes without it; as in _cry_ and _scry_; _creek_ of day, and _skreek_. _Ss_ is often used by our old writers as the mark of the pl.; as, _horss_ for _horsis_, horses.
