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One who rummages.

A large and tall glass, or drinking cup. [Obs.] J. Philips.

Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

A sort of Spanish wine. [Obs.]

A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety. This rumor of him went forth throughout all Judea, and throughout all the region round about. Luke vii. 17. Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight. Shak.

A teller of news; especially, one who spreads false reports. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a rumor; of the nature of rumors. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Fig.: The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant. Rump Parliament, or The Rump (Eng. Hist.), the remnant of the Long Parliament after the expulsion by Cromwell in 1648 of those who opposed his purposes. It was dissolved by Cromwell in 1653, but twice revived for brief sessions, ending finally in 1659. The rump abolishe…

A Shakespearean word of uncertain meaning. Perhaps "fattened in the rump, pampered." "The rump-fed ronyon."

A member or a supporter of the Rump Parliament. I. Disraeli.

To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat. They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scoth paper for twenty of your fairest assignats. Burke.

Wrinkled; crumpled. Pope.

Destitute of a rump.

Rumpled. Carlyle.

A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel. [Colloq.]

One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.

The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase. Jer. Taylor.

A flower bud. Gray.

See Alarm. [Now Poetic]

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.