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Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson.

Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.

; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.

In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.

ed through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.

A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.

The drone of a bagpipe. Ruddiman.

suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder. Others devised the boat of one tree, called the canoe. Raleigh.

Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.

A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England.

The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. Give color to my pale cheek. Shak.

Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.

A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.

See Cruddle.

, a drop of water. With minute drops from off the eaves. Milton. As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. Shak. That drop of peace divine. Keble.

An American duck; the ruddy duck.

e particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. With flakes of ruddy fire. Somerville.

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

The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone.

Without a helm or rudder. Carlyle.