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In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs.

One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person. Chesterfield.

Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.

Rudeness of manners; barbarousness.

Rudiments; first principles, as of grammar. [Obs.] Ford.

character, influence, etc. Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors. Shak. A grave and prudent law, full of moral equity. Milton.

To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination. Farrar.

A rude or clownish person; boor; lout.

To drudge; to do menial work. Richardson.

See Grudge. [Obs.] Hudibras.

A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder. Ball gudgeon. See under Ball.

Without experience or trial; unacquainted (with). Such gardening tools, as art, yet rude, Guiltless of fire, had formed. Milton. -- Guilt"less*ly, adv. -- Guilt"less*ness, n.

See Grudgeons.

s; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions. 1.

A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge. Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack. Goldsmith.

A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.

Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.

Unwillingly; grudgingly. The House of Peers gave so hardly theiMilton.

grating; esp.:(a) To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. (b) To the taste. "Berries harsh and crude." Milton. (c) To the ear. "Harsh din." Milton.

In a harsh manner; gratingly; roughly; rudely. 'T will sound harshly in her ears. Shak.