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ic purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket. We profess to have embraced a religion which contains the most exact rules for the government of our lives. Tillotson…

A stickler for rules; a slave of rules [R.] Hare.

Destitute of rule; lawless. Spenser.

One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor. And he made him ruler over all the land. Gen. xii. 43. A prince and ruler of the land. Shak.

A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear.

A secondary mouth fold developed at the base of each of the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusæ. See Illustration in Appendix.

To form into, or place in, a schedule.

A floscule, or florest, with its corolla prolonged into a strap-shaped petal; -- called also semifloret.

Same as Semolina.

A setula.

A silicle.

A somnambulist.

hed with a soul; possessing soul and feeling; -- used chiefly in composition; as, great-souled Hector. "Grecian chiefs . . . largely souled." Dryden.

A sperm cell. Haeckel.

quicksilver, when poured upon a plane, divides itself into a great number of minute spherules.

A minute, slender granule, or point.

One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.

A minute spine. Dana.

Having small spines; somewhat thorny.

A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula. [Obs.] Ayliffe.