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Made ruddy or red.

In a ruddy manner. Byron.

The quality or state of being ruddy; as, the ruddiness of the cheeks or the sky.

sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.

To dye or tinge with scarlet. [R.] The ashy paleness of my cheek Is scarleted in ruddy flakes of wrath. Ford.

Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect. Burns. A ruddy storm, whose scowl Made heaven's radiant face look foul. Crashaw.

the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks. The scoters, eiders, old squaw, and ruddy duck are examples. They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe.

haracterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security. Sleepy duck (Zoöl.), the ruddy duck.

The ruddy duck.

The ruddy duck. [Local, U.S.]

The ruddy duck. See under Ruddy.

The ruddy duck.

The ruddy duck. [Local, U.S.]

The ruddy duck. [Local, U.S.]

The ruddy duck. [ Local U.S. ]

ove or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and turn rapidly with the fingers. See ruddy maids, Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel. Dodsley. No more beneath soft eve's consenting star Fandango twirls his jocund castanet. Byron.

The ruddy duck. [Local, U. S.]

To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane. [Obs.] When ruddy Phwelk in west. Spenser. The church, that before by insensible degrees welked and impaired, now with large steps went down hill decaying. Milton.

specially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant. Spenser. Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found. Dryden. The fruit of the tree . . . is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding. Landor.