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ole world makes such a rout about. Sterne. "My child, it is not well," I said, "Among the graves to shout; To laugh and play among the dead, And make this noisy rout." Trench.

A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in medicine. Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. Milton. They [the exorcists] are to try the devil by holy water, incense, sulphur, rue, which from thence,…

Ruffians, collectively; a body of ruffians. "The vilest ruffianage." Sir F. Palgrave.

resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. Rutin is found in the leaves of the rue (Ruta graveolens) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition.

An old crafty fox or beguiler -- a word of contempt. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors. "Sad-colored clothes." Walton. Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colors. Mortimer.

To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful. Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene. Pope.

Seriously; soberly; gravely. [Obs.] To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame Or our neglect, we lost her as we came. Milton.

Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious. All you sage counselors, hence! Shak.

A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.

Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper. Addison.

A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament. W. browne.

A tool with a semicircular edge, -- used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving. Fairholt.

r. No . . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses. Macaulay.

To engrave, as upon a shield. [R.] Spenser.

The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality. Cotgrave.

perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.

To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. Spenser.

A scroll. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

To sculpture; to carve; to engrave. [Obs. or Humorous.] Sandys.