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A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.

Early. [Obs.] Rude mechanicals that rare and late Work in the market place. Chapman.

ing or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.

y the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter. And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms. Addison. 'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. Byron.

ers. An orderly life so far as others are able to observe us is now and then produced by prudential motives or by dint of habit; but without seriousness there can be no religious principle at the bottom, no course of conduct from religious motives; in a word, there can be no religion. Paley. Religion [was] not, as too…

eetingg in opposition or contest; a combat, action, or engagement. The justling chiefs in rude rencounter join. Granville.

; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices. There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear. Burke. And dislodge their reptile souls From the bodies and forms of men. Coleridge.

h degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature. [His sword] repugnant to command. Shak. There is no breach of a divine law but is more or less repugnant unto the will of the Lawgiver, God himself. Perkins.

uted vile in your sight Job xviii. 3. The king your father was reputed for A prince most prudent. Shak.

yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur. A firm, yet cautious mind; Sincere, thought prudent; constant, yet resigned. Pope.

The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded. In virtue of an endless remotion or retrusion of the constituent cause. Coleridge.

carbons intermediate between gsolene and cymogene. It is obtained in the purification of crude petroleum, and is used as a refregerant.

Violent; rough; rude. While romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust. Thomson.

To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

Given to rude play; inclined to romp. --- Romp"ish, adv. -- Romp"ish*ness, n.

Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper. A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough. Shak. A surly boatman, rough as wayes or winds. Prior.

A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.

To give the first form or shape to; to form rudely; to shape appromaxitely and rudely; to roughcast. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Roughhew them how we will. Shak.

Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.

In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.