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REFUSE v. 8 definitions
s a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant. That never yet refused your hest. Chaucer.
REFUSER n.
One who refuses or rejects.
RELIGIEUSE; RELIGIEUX n.
A person bound by monastic vows; a nun; a monk.
REPERUSE v.
To peruse again. Ld. Lytton.
REREMOUSE n.
A rearmouse.
RETRUSE a.
Abstruse. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
RETUSE a.
Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse leaf.
RIGHTEOUSED a.
Made righteous. [Obs.]
ROUNDHOUSE n. 4 definitions
A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house. [Obs.]
ROUSE n. 11 definitions
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson.
ROUSER n. 3 definitions
One who, or that which, rouses.
RUSE n.
An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraund; deceit. Ruse de guerre ( Etym: [F.], a stratagem of war.
SARUM USE n.
A liturgy, or use, put forth about 1087 by St. Osmund, bishop of Sarum, based on Anglo-Saxon and Norman customs.
SAUSEFLEM a.
Having a red, pimpled face. [Obs.] [Written also sawceflem.] Chaucer.
SCHOOLHOUSE n.
A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
SCOUSE n.
A sailor's dish. Bread scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. See Lobscouse. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
SEA LOUSE n.
Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of Cymothoa, Livoneca, and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes.
SEA MOUSE n. 2 definitions
A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setæ on the sides.
SEA WOOD LOUSE n.
A sea slater.
SELF-ABUSE n. 3 definitions
The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties.
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